links for 2005-10-04

Beltway Blogroll reports that Congress will hold a hearing to explore the issue of FEC regulation of blogs.  The hearing will be next Thursday (9/22) and will feature bloggers and FEC commissioners past and present.

I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels.  So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people.  For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…

MarketingVOX: NPR Launches Podcast Push; Acura a Sponsor MicroPersuasion reports prominent tech columnist John C. Dvorak is bullish on podcasting: “There is no doubt in my mind that podcasting is not only here to stay but will also shortly threaten established media broadcast systems.” Dave Winer: “Two nightly news shows available via podcast: NBC Nightly…

San Francisco Chronicle writes about a city councilor blogging using a government web server.  The article addresses some of the concerns over the use of taxpayer resources to maintain a blog.  It points out that for members of Congress, there are myriad rules and regulations already in place, but for local officials the guidelines tend…

Brian Oberkirch notes that it is Talk Like a Pirate Day.  Unfortunately, I’m at DEMOfall and didn’t get to read this post until just now (barely still Pirate Talk Day here on the West Coast) and now I feel like a bad Dad because I forgot to talk to my eldest son like a pirate…

An email from MediaPost reports: “Have we reached critical mass on consumer broadband penetration in the United States? Well, apparently JupiterResearch says we have. Jupiter reports that more than 43 percent of online households now connect to the Web via broadband, thus constituting critical mass. Jupiter projects that broadband adoption will reach nearly 80 percent…