links for 2005-10-02

Matthew Hurst of BlogPulse offers some interesting insight into blog posts over on his Data Mining blog.  It comes in 3 parts:  here, here, and here. He derives the data from 24 hours of pings to weblogs.com.

Townhall.com has announced they are ditching MeetUp.com and building their own service.  As one of the largest conservative grassroots groups working with MeetUp, it is a major tangible sign the new billing policy may not be working. Effective this Thursday, Townhall.com will officially end its relationship with Meetup.com.  In place of Meetup, Townhall will begin…

Did Bush win because of the Internet? MICHAEL CORNFELD KNOWS WHY George W. Bush won last year’s presidential election.  Bush’s camp, said Cornfeld, used the Internet to find volunteers and then gave them information to spread–via any medium at hand–to friends and neighbors. "The Bush campaign married software to Tupperware," Cornfeld, a senior consultant with…

Reuters reports: Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings. The first-time study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 percent still read print editions.

We have taken a few steps forward with CustomScoop Personal Edition today.  First, we introduced a mashup with Google Maps that shows pushpins for every location in which you have a clip.  It easily allows you to see any geographic patterns to your recent news coverage. Currently, we have geocoded most newspapers and certain other…

First, conservative bloggers followed Hugh Hewitt’s call to "adopt a box" of documents about Judge Roberts and cull through them for interesting information.  And now Mark Tapscott takes his mandate as an advocate for Computer Assisted Research and Reporting to a new level by suggesting "Citizen Assisted Research and Reporting" through an examination of massive…