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
Matthew Hurst points out that Google’s terms of service for its new Analytics service allows it to use the collected data for its own purposes. Essentially, in exchange for free web visitor stats for your blog or web site, you agree to let them take advantage of that treasure drove of data being collected. Seems…
BuzzWebster has links to a recap of the Politics Online Conference held last week at George Washington University.
An email from MediaPost reports: “Have we reached critical mass on consumer broadband penetration in the United States? Well, apparently JupiterResearch says we have. Jupiter reports that more than 43 percent of online households now connect to the Web via broadband, thus constituting critical mass. Jupiter projects that broadband adoption will reach nearly 80 percent…
If you are a food and/or drink blogger, check out the plan for Cork & Knife Food Blogger Dinners, coming soon to a restaurant in a city near you.
It’s appropriate that the common symbolism of entrepreneurship among children is the lemonade stand. Even as adults, succeeding as an entrepreneur relies on turning lemons into lemonade — even if most of the time those lemons aren’t real. From the person who becomes an entrepreneur of necessity after losing a job to the startup setbacks…
Fred Wilson offers some interesting data from Comscore about which blog hosts have the most visitors and which are most sticky.