links for 2005-10-08

PaidContent reports that news parody site The Onion has dropped its premium pay service.

How Marketers Want To Trick Mobile Operators Into Letting Them Spam You (tags: MobileContent Spam) The Political Power Of Blogs (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics) Motorola To Launch Idle-Screen Pointcast-like Service in U.S. (tags: MobileContent) OPML – An Awesome Experiment (tags: OPML NewProducts RSS Web2.0) MediaPost Publications – Blog Champions: High Click-Throughs Offset Low Reach – 09/29/2005…

The High Price of Creating Free Ads the pitfalls of inviting consumers to create ads for your brand (tags: advertising ugc) coRank: Build Your Own Digg Clone could a more focused Digg challenge the “original”? (tags: socialmedia ugc) Who Can Compete with Facebook? which matters more? platform or user base? (tags: innovation) Don’t Adjust My…

Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on.  I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…

Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? (tags: VC Web2.0) Beltway Blogroll: Patrick Ruffini Is Now Chillin’ For The RNC From blogger to RNC e-comms staffer (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics)

Kari Chisholm blogs about the current debate over whether Convio, a company that provides online advocacy tools, should be able to serve all non-profits, or just those with a certain agenda: Most of Convio’s current and past clients are lefty organizations – including the ACLU, Dean for America, Planned Parenthood, etc. Recently, however, they added…