New Congressional Bloggers

Akamai offers this fun little tool that shows volume of traffic to news sites around the world.  It’s more fun than useful, but Akamai could add value to it by trying to pinpoint the news stories that are causing upward fluctuations.  For example, at 6:45 PM ET tonight, it showed Australian news traffic was 200%…

One of the things I plan to do with InterAdvocacy is to show different techniques being employed by groups in their online advocacy efforts.  Needless to say, I won’t agree with all of the groups or even techniques I feature, but these are ideas that seem worth sharing. Today, MoveOn.org‘s contribution page drew my attention. …

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)

Microsoft’s Robert Scoble frequently offers good insight and great links.  But I’m afraid today his wife may be right.  When he blogged today about "the world" I can only hope he intended to say "my world." RSS has totally changed how I work and how I get my information. In that sense, RSS has changed…

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…

MediaPost Publications – Pheedo Unveils RSS Analytics “IN A FURTHER SIGN OF momentum in the RSS advertising space, Pheedo, a blog and RSS ad network, today officially unveils its RSS analytics service.” (tags: RSS Advertising)