New Congressional Bloggers
Beltway Blogroll points to a half dozen new bloggers in the ranks of Congress.
An interesting statistic from the 9/5/05 issue of Red Herring magazine: 30 million Americans have downloaded cell phone ring tones and 78 percent of them (23 million people) paid for them.
Heather Green over at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting writes: PaidContent and Techdirt dig through the two conflicting surveys from JupiterResearch and CLX on podcasts…and come up with the most logical line on who the audience for podcasts is….No one knows.
I attend conferences more for the conversation and inspiration than for the panels. So I was pleased over the past two days to meet a bunch of smart, interesting people. For example, last night at dinner I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Nail of Cymfony. His company has recently gone through a…
Bacon’s acquisition trend continues, this time by picking up broadcast monitoring firm Multivision. From the press release: Bacon’s Information, Inc., a provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services for public relations, marketing and corporate communications professionals, today announced the acquisition of Multivision, Inc, a broadcast monitoring and media management company headquartered in Oakland,…
Micro Persuasion: Google Pulls Shenanigans with Geo-Targeted RSS Ads The search company has apparently been testing localized ads without telling anyone. (tags: Google Geotargeting RSS Advertising)
We have taken a few steps forward with CustomScoop Personal Edition today. First, we introduced a mashup with Google Maps that shows pushpins for every location in which you have a clip. It easily allows you to see any geographic patterns to your recent news coverage. Currently, we have geocoded most newspapers and certain other…