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The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…

It turns out that relying on the masses to help you pick your NCAA bracket can work.  As I explained before, I made my picks for March Madness this year based on what the majority of CBS Sportsline users had done.  Since I generally stink at this stuff, I figured I had nothing to lose….

Interesting report from UPI today: White House adviser Karl Rove said in a recent conference call that Internet lobbying by young grassroots Republicans will make or break the Bush administration’s proposals to revamp the pension program, just as the technology helped get out the vote last fall during the presidential campaign.

My favorite restaurant in Washington, DC suffered a serious fire early yesterday morning while the place was empty. Check out the pictures from Tim Carman at the Washington City Paper to get a feel for the damage at Todd Gray’s Equinox. It certainly wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but there is clearly…

The good news: 36 million Americans use text messaging.  The understandable caveat: most are 18-27. Shel Holtz discusses implications for the PR industry broadly, but does text messaging have a future in politics?  Could it be a way to engage younger voters with issue alerts?  Or is it an Inside-the-Beltway pro tool that might work…

I’m at DEMOfall 05 today and tomorrow.  Some of what I post about it will be slightly off-topic for this blog, but becoming better aware of emerging technologies and companies undoubtedly helps many of my readers (and certainly influences my own efforts at innovation), so I’m going to share anyway. The basic concept of the…