links for 2005-10-03

Townhall.com is spinning off from The Heritage Foundation to become a separate entity and is shedding its 501(c)3 tax status in the process.  This represents a major development as it will no longer be constrained by IRS rules to avoid political activism.  It has the potential to become a powerful conservative grassroots activation tool.  (As…

Fred Wilson offers some interesting data from Comscore about which blog hosts have the most visitors and which are most sticky.

Global Neighbourhoods: You got a case? I’ll give you a free pass (tags: comments) Online Public Relations Thoughts (tags: comments)

MeetUp.com came to fame because of the Howard Dean campaign.  Despite inroads by conservative groups like Townhall.com which has registered 24,000+ activists through the site, most of the top 15 political groups listed on the site are left-leaning.  In fact, only 3 right of center groups appear on that list.  MeetUp suffers from the public…

The New York Times will begin a paid subscription section starting next Monday, 9/19, that will primarily include columns.  Jupiter analyst David Card wonders: shall we start the countdown for how long this lasts till the Timesmen (and women) demand to be set free so they can continue to participate in the online blogger-commentariat fray?

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…