links for 2005-10-08

Micro Persuasion: Google Pulls Shenanigans with Geo-Targeted RSS Ads The search company has apparently been testing localized ads without telling anyone. (tags: Google Geotargeting RSS Advertising)

MediaPost Publications – New Search Engine Will Give Users Premium Content, For Free Congoo’s business model questioned (tags: PaidContent VerticalSearch Search)

The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity.  And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…

MediaPost Publications – Web Marketing Experts: RSS Ads Resemble E-Mail, But Without The Spam – 09/28/2005 (tags: RSS Advertising) Classified Intelligence Announces That Google Shops for Classified Providers (tags: Aggregation Classifieds VerticalSearch) Micro Persuasion: BusinessWeek Spotlights Web 2.0 (tags: Web2.0) Kevin Burton’s Feed Blog: No More CNET/Google Boycott? (tags: PR Search)

Those of you who use a feed reader to access my content should be seamlessly receiving access to my content which is now being posted at ChipGriffin.com. I will continue to maintain Pardon the Disruption as an archive of my older posts, but everything new will now appear at ChipGriffin.com. The content will be very…

I created a short video for a presentation I did today about the promising future (and productive past) of online advocacy. It is entitled "Digital Advocacy Works" and it covers the history of online advocacy since 1994 (in brief), as well as some of the technologies available today and what this means for companies and…