links for 2005-09-29

MediaPost reports: POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE STARTING TO believe that online advertising allows them far greater opportunities to extend reach and target constituents than do traditional ad campaigns, said panelists Monday at a conference in New York City sponsored by Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site dedicated to examining how technology and the Internet are changing…

Blog valuation: The current numbers if you’re buying/selling a site (tags: Blogs M MarketResearch) PR folks see blogs as powerful and dangerous (tags: PR Blogs) Online News Squared: Americans On Net 93 Minutes Daily — 7X Newspapers (tags: OnlineMedia MarketResearch) “Define What’s Valued Online” Highlights Critical Role of Internet in Shaping Purchasing Decisions Survey of…

Politics can be a dirty business, that’s certain.  In the trenches, many will do the unthinkable.  Now some are speculating about PR firms creating fake blogs for the Bush Administration … or even Democrats creating fake fake blogs in an attempt to implicate the President’s team.  Let’s not get too carried away here.  Professional public…

The High Price of Creating Free Ads the pitfalls of inviting consumers to create ads for your brand (tags: advertising ugc) coRank: Build Your Own Digg Clone could a more focused Digg challenge the “original”? (tags: socialmedia ugc) Who Can Compete with Facebook? which matters more? platform or user base? (tags: innovation) Don’t Adjust My…

MIT will host a grassroots technology conference in 2 weeks.  It certainly tilts left, but online organizing ideas ultimately ignore the political spectrum.  The workshop is described as follows: Workshop proposals that were accepted fit into one of these themes: a) Making technology relevant to communities b) Online politics post-2004 c) Uniting movements for social…