Steve Rubel: "Reuters has launched a new program that converts the text of its news reports
into podcasts."
Good to see Reuters innovating on news presentation. But if you read the comments on Steve’s post, you’ll see that the implementation leaves something to be desired.
KD Paine mostly gets it right in a recent column, except for the headline ("It Just Doesn’t Matter! Don’t Bother Measuring Blogs"): If you know that your customers are generating buzz in blogs or chat rooms or newsgroups, then okay, pay attention. But if what happens in the blogosphere is irrelevant to the behavior of…
Washington Post reports on the gist of comments to the FEC on internet campaigning regulations. My position will not be popular with fellow bloggers, but I do believe that if a blogger is paid to blog by a campaign, that should have to be disclosed — just like real world political activities. Now, if the…
cgm: CGM, Blogs, and Politics Much of the innovation we’re seeing in the use and spread of consumer-generated media (CGM) draws from the political blog space. (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Over 100M Blogs Served (tags: Blogs) How To Instantly Get Onto Newsweek’s And The Washington Post’s Website (tags: Blogs PR)
Mike Orren: "Earthlink joins the hordes trying to do local via aggregation, in this case using Topix and Google." He also notes that "any successful local play has to be a hybrid of original content and aggregation." (which the Earthlink product is not) Mike’s right. The aggregation can help jumpstart the community with consumer generated…
The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future. They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…
For many, the ability to drive represents a key milestone of freedom in America. The ability to grab the steering wheel and take your car across town or even across the country has been idealized as part of our society for more than three quarters of a century. Dan Neil of he Wall Street Journal explores…