links for 2005-11-19

Kari Chisholm offers this: "Governing Magazine has a great discussion of the role that blogs are playing during the Texas legislative session"

I took most of the day off yesterday to spend time with my family – and was I surprised to see my inbox when I got back to it! As a fellow blogger, I understand the importance of a fast, accurate response to issues raised in the blogs. Unfortunately, in a case of the cobbler’s…

Readers will remember that one of the companies I am involved with is CustomScoop, an online media monitoring service.  Our industry has typically been based on an "all you can eat" mentality, where there are no per clip fees or limits.  This can be explained by the original impetus for many of our services: a…

The Center for Media Research reports via email today that: According to JupiterResearch, the number of online adults who prefer the Internet as their main source of news has grown over 35% in the last four years, at the expense of television and newspapers. Currently, over 26% of online adults prefer the Internet for national…

More from Amy Gahran (I’m getting caught up on feeds tonight).  I have heard from a surprising number of people — PR professionals even — who refuse to register for all of these news sites that require registration to read content. It’s an interesting problem as more sites go to registration. UPDATE: Mike Orren argues…

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…