links for 2005-10-01

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…

MediaPost reports: BUZZ-TRACKING FIRM UMBRIA WILL UPGRADE its Buzz Report, which tracks conversations about brands on blogs and message boards, by offering users more refined demographic information and an enhanced method for dealing with blog spam. Buzz Report, which monitors about 11 million blogs and 100,000 public message boards, already analyzes posts to determine writers’…

New Media Marketer: E-mail marketers are lobbying the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to add a sunset provision to the CAN-SPAM Act that would allow e-mail addresses to be automatically removed from suppression files after five years.

PaidContent.org reports: C-SPAN is launching its podcasts with three popular shows: After Words, Q & A and segments from American Perspectives.

Steve Rubel reports that BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek have been acquired by Nielsen.  This represents an interesting marriage between the old school media measurement (Nielsen) and the new world of blog measurement.  Previously, Nielsen has gotten into the web site measurement game generally. As companies begin to pay more attention to what is being said in…

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