links for 2005-09-28

This space has been fairly quiet of late, as I have been deeply involved in growing and transitioning a number of businesses, ventures, and projects. I thought I’d take a moment to update all of you loyal readers about what I’m up to and in a subsequent post I will share what you can expect…

Consumers Union created a web-based ad spoofing prescription drug warnings in an effort to convince people to contact Congress and lobby for a law requiring more disclosure of drug trial test results.  An article describes how they promoted it. Schneider and Kathy Mitchell, who directs Internet advocacy at Consumer Union’s Austin, Texas, office, decided early…

A Kintera/Luth study found that: On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.

For most of my life, baseball has been my favorite sport. There’s something soothing about watching a game, especially in person. Baseball has strategy and data — things that I have loved since a young age. It also has cheating. Cheating has been part of the game for generations. Almost exactly a century ago, the…

We’re going through a bit of a growth spurt over at CustomScoop and have a number of immediate job openings in our Concord, NH office.  It’s an exciting time for the company with lots of fun projects on the horizon.  Our five years of success in selling news monitoring services to medium to large businesses…

Interesting commentary over at Personal Democracy Forum over the merits of advertising on blogs vs. WashingtonPost.com.  Henry Copeland of BlogAds suggested in a debate at the Online Politics conference earlier this month that you’d hit more eyeballs with a buy on political blogs than on the Post web site. Kate Kaye astutely points out that…