links for 2007-05-17

As long as we’re talking about USB products, to me the biggest news of the day at DEMOfall is something that I’m not sure how much I can talk about.  I had the opportunity to talk at length with an entrepreneur who has developed a product he claims would offer a once-and-for-all fix for viruses…

Duncan Riley shares a statistic that he came across that should serve as a reminder to those of us living inside the technology bubble: just 5 million Americans use mobile Internet services. Technorati tags: mobile Internet

Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch profiles a couple of new offerings from Pluck that are designed to help provide fuel to the citizen journalism fire and to make it easier for online publishers to get into the RSS game. I’m particularly intrigued by the effort to help enable community blogging, a move that could revitalize…

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.”

Beltway Blogroll reports: Down the hall here at National Journal, The Hotline’s Blogometer reports on the newest advertising network organized through BlogAds. It is called Buy the Right Ads and caters to advertisers who want a presence on conservative blogs. The network includes big-name blogs like Ankle Biting Pundits, Hugh Hewitt, Michelle Malkin, PoliPundit and…

MediaPost reports: POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE STARTING TO believe that online advertising allows them far greater opportunities to extend reach and target constituents than do traditional ad campaigns, said panelists Monday at a conference in New York City sponsored by Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site dedicated to examining how technology and the Internet are changing…