links for 2007-05-08

The Washington Post reports that new rules on internet campaigning are likely. "We are almost certainly going to move from an environment in which the Internet was per se not regulated to where it is going to be regulated in some part," said FEC Commissioner David M. Mason, a Republican. "That shift has huge significance…

Topix.net “announced the availability of its NewsRank(TM) categorization technology across the 177 newspaper and television station Web sites of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Knight Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI) and Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB).  Articles on Topix.net powered sites provide links to related, categorized content, discovered through their NewsRank(TM) technology.” 

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…

Jimmy Wales the creator of Wikipedia, has launched a wiki designed to be a resource for information on issues, parties, and campaigns.  Unfortunately, the effort demonstrates right out of the gate that highly charged issues may not be the best use of the wiki format where readers get to edit entries themselves.  The battle has…

Interesting tidbit from PaidContent: The Virginian-Pilot–the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the state of Virginia, has launched a standalone video site called HamptonRoads.tv. The site has local (both professional editorial and user-generated video) and national video (AP video feeds) and will funnel video to its local websites, HamptonRoads.com and PilotOnline.com.