links for 2007-05-17
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TV nets circumventing the MSM and going to TV bloggers instead
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thoughts on how Google ranks news stories
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57 questions that deserve answers — but most of us don’t have them
Many of us have faced the challenge of having to recruit new employees. It’s not a fun process and you end up spending a lot of time with poor candidates, often because the job description didn’t frame the job right, and instead relied on all sorts of jibberish. The bottom line is that it is…
MoveOn.org continues to generate press for itself over its ability to bundle contributions to targeted campaigns. The latest example comes courtesy of the Charleston (WV) Gazette: Early Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., sent an appeal over the Internet urging people to contribute to the re-election campaign of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. In less…
Infectious Greed: Yahoo Finance Adds Columnists — But Why These Ones? Study: ER traffic down for Red Sox games This is completely off-topic, but entertaining nonetheless. Global PR Blog Week 2.0 » The complexities of government blogging in a dynamic policy environment DeepVertical Launches 5 Vertical Search Sites Israeli Tech Firm Buys BuzzMetrics
Jimmy Wales the creator of Wikipedia, has launched a wiki designed to be a resource for information on issues, parties, and campaigns. Unfortunately, the effort demonstrates right out of the gate that highly charged issues may not be the best use of the wiki format where readers get to edit entries themselves. The battle has…
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…
I spent far too much time in airports the past few days, enduring the joy of late summer thunderstorms in the northeast. On the upside, I was able to knock out two books that I would recommend you pick up when you have a chance. John Battelle’s The Search offers a superb look at the…