links for 2005-11-17

Stuff worth checking out: "Chris Heuer is the project lead: Signups for the new media press release (really!)" (Tom Foremski) – more on the effort to update the press release for the new media age.  Something worth following. "Blogs, Politics and Public Relations" (Beltway Blogroll) – campaigns in the new media age "GOP Superiority in…

I attended the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s WOMBAT conference today in San Francisco.  Day 1 had a number of good panels, including one which covered some research about how people respond to word of mouth recommendations and whether online opinion matters.  Interestingly, the research suggested that about 90% of word of mouth recommendations come…

Robert Scoble thinks so.  He argues that Bloglines beats out Technorati because it has more links.  Now, Bloglines may indeed be better than Technorati — I simply haven’t examined it carefully enough to comment.  But you can’t focus solely on quantity at the expense of quality.  All the links in the world don’t matter if…

Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? is Google cutting secret deals with European publishers? (tags: copyright) The Value Of Aggregating Content disaggregation vs. aggregation — where are we headed? (tags: Aggregation media) Newspapers need to go hyper-local to survive echoing my argument that most newspapers can only differentiate on local…

National Journal conducted a survey of 71 GOP and 65 Democrat "insiders."  Interestingly, 69 percent of the Democrats thought the netroots would help their party (as opposed to 0 percent feeling it would help the GOP and 31 percent thinking no significant impact).  OK, that much might be expected.  Democrats are optimistic about their chances…

Time magazine was apparently motivated by the Google blog search announcement and decided to run a short piece on how to become a blogger and how to find blog posts.  They decided this somehow amounts to the next version of blogging.  The article itself seems to contradict the headline: "Google’s effort, while useful, is not…