links for 2007-05-16

Matt Cronin, a partner at online marketing firm WebLiquid, emailed an intriguing analysis of the recent Gallup survey on blog audience: Blogs are indeed quickly becoming mainstream but only to the extent that they’ll complement the news picture for those who are interested, simply due to the natural topic/opinion/agenda fragmentation of the blogoshere. While these…

Seth’s Blog: I’m liveblogging this Seth Godin joins the anti-liveblogging crowd (tags: blogs) TripAdvisor Growing With Help of User Generated Content “TripAdvisor is successfully showing the blue print of how to leverage user generated content, now the only question is the rest of the world watching? And who will be the next business to take…

For more than a decade, I have been working with employers, colleagues, and clients to maximize the use of the Internet for political and public affairs advocacy. I’ve tried a lot of things. Many worked well, some didn’t. And I’ve seen a lot from others that worked and some that didn’t. InterAdvocacy will keep an…

Jeff Clavier reports on a company he holds an investment in: A few days ago, Truveo went quietly out of stealth. It did not get noticed immediately because of two major news “sandwiching” its release: Skype/eBay and Google BlogSearch. However the buzz has been growing since then, and the initial feedback is pretty positive. Yes,…

An interesting article in the Washington Post identifies a growing issue for the interesection of technology and advocacy: email overload in Congress. If you think you’re swamped by Internet spam, pity the poor Congress. According to a new study, electronic messages to the House of Representatives doubled to 99 million from 2000 to 2004. In…

PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”