links for 2007-05-10

Marketing guru Seth Godin points to a study about how visitors read news web sites. It’s all based on tracking technology designed to show what the eye is looking at on the screen. I’ve only had time to skim the report so far, but it is clearly fascinating reading.  Just take a look at the…

When I was a kid one of my coaches told me: “you run like you have a refrigerator on your back!” And that’s likely true. A speed demon I was not. As a baseball player, I suspect there were times when my coach and teammates wondered if I’d be the first player ever to be…

Yahoo-Backed Group To Digitize Library, Academic Content (tags: NewProducts Search) ABC, CBS and NBC Inch Closer VOD Launches (tags: OnlineMedia) Politics and Technology: Politics in a Match.com World (tags: OnlinePolitics SocialNetworking) Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How Consumer Generated Media and the Virtual Handshake will Make or Break Your Business Conference to be held in…

The Standards Editor of the New York Times,  Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…

For those of you interested in history or politics, I encourage you to check out the essay I wrote about the potential loss of "America’s story" as author David McCullough calls it.

The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity.  And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…