links for 2007-05-14

Mayor/Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) has started a blog.  The Christian Science Monitor examines what this means. (Thanks to Jim Horton for pointing out this story.)

Washington Post: The Federal Election Commission revealed yesterday that it plans to take what one of its commissioners termed a "relatively nonintrusive" approach to regulating political campaigns on the Internet.

Paul Kedrosky points to the Financial Times’ list of six business books of the year.  (Leave it to the Europeans to decide to end the year early.)  I’ve read and enjoyed 3 of the 6 (The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman; The Search by John Battelle; and Freakonomics by Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner). …

Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.

Fred Wilson offers some interesting data from Comscore about which blog hosts have the most visitors and which are most sticky.

Seth Godin is usually known for his marketing advice.  But that’s fundamentally what politics ends up being all about anyway, isn’t it?  In assessing a debate between David Keene and Ralph Neas over judicial nominations, he determines that Keene was believeable and on message, while Neas sounded "like a Moot Court debater."  (For you lawyers…