links for 2005-10-11

Kate Kaye blogs about a new Pew study on blog influence: Bloggers are often touted as influential instigators, feeding buzz-worthy topics to the mainstream media they so disdain, and even guiding discussion in other communication channels. Not so, says a new study analyzing the impact of political blogs on the national conversation leading up to…

Changes are coming to the bulk email market, according to DMNews, and it’s a mixed bag for advocacy email. The cost could be coming down, but the flexibility and effectiveness could be declining as well. E-mail list pricing could drop as much as 25 percent in the next three to six months because of changes…

The Hartford Courant takes a look at the current difficulties facing newspapers — and how they are addressing the problem both on and off-line. These are tough times for the printed word. As newspapers grapple with their collective identity crisis, they’re also navigating some stark industry conditions – what some news veterans call the worst…

I wasn’t able to make it out to Gnomedex, unfortunately.  Fortunately, I’ve been able to catch some of it through the streaming feed provided by the conference. I found it very interesting several weeks ago when I first heard that John Edwards would be a keynote speaker at the event.  It really demonstrates the lengths…

Duncan Riley shares a statistic that he came across that should serve as a reminder to those of us living inside the technology bubble: just 5 million Americans use mobile Internet services. Technorati tags: mobile Internet

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.