links for 2007-05-14

MeetUp.com came to fame because of the Howard Dean campaign.  Despite inroads by conservative groups like Townhall.com which has registered 24,000+ activists through the site, most of the top 15 political groups listed on the site are left-leaning.  In fact, only 3 right of center groups appear on that list.  MeetUp suffers from the public…

The first ever dead tree version of Media Bullseye, the multimedia magazine I founded last December, is now available. I’m a big believer that there’s still a role for print publications to play. Not everyone takes time to read articles online and this enables us to get in front of interesting people who prefer to…

I took most of the day off yesterday to spend time with my family – and was I surprised to see my inbox when I got back to it! As a fellow blogger, I understand the importance of a fast, accurate response to issues raised in the blogs. Unfortunately, in a case of the cobbler’s…

The SEC has nailed an Estonian investment bank and a couple of hackers for sneaking into the Business Wire press release distribution system to find out which public companies would be making significant announcements in the near future.  They then bought stock or sold it short for a profit. Since the start of this year,…

Steve Rubel offers an interesting chart from Technorati, the blog search engine, that seems to show that most spikes in blog posting volume occur around political events. David Sifry also comments that "We see the largest number of posts each day between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time, meaning between 10AM and 3PM…

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