links for 2007-05-17

WashingtonPost.com offers a commentary on the ongoing Politics Online Conference at George Washington University.  It notes that one of the speakers this year came from JibJab, the outfit that created the widely viewed online parody titled "This Land." (If you haven’t seen it, you must not have had an Internet connection last fall.) The piece…

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…

The Center for Media Research said in their email briefing today that there’s evidence that more young people are interested in Social Security in the wake of the ongoing debate over how to strengthen the system for the future.  CMR wrote: President Bush’s campaign for social security reform has moved the debate to center stage….

I’m looking for someone who will be at the DEMO conference next week to file some stories for Start Rocket. It could be a nice way to pick up a few extra bucks and participate in the launch week for the new publication. If you’re interested, email me.

I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search.  But I guess I should.  MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…

BL Ochman has gone on the warpath against the BlogOn conference and its PR firm, Porter Novelli.  First, she was irked that Porter Novelli’s rep refused to grant her a press pass to cover the event.  Then she seemed insulted when BlogOn’s marketing rep suggested a trade in which BL would agree to promote the…