links for 2007-05-18

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…

Poynter Online reports: DenverPost.com’s podcasts are finding some funding. Executive producer Gil Asakawa reports that the retailer Best Buy is paying for a $30,000 campaign that begins October 3. The podcasts will have a short sponsor mention at the beginning, then a longer (10-second) product-specific mention at the end. [via Online News Squared]

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Washington Post: The Federal Election Commission revealed yesterday that it plans to take what one of its commissioners termed a "relatively nonintrusive" approach to regulating political campaigns on the Internet.

Web 2.0: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Absurdity? (tags: VC Web2.0) Beltway Blogroll: Patrick Ruffini Is Now Chillin’ For The RNC From blogger to RNC e-comms staffer (tags: Blogs OnlinePolitics)

An action packed day today at the WOMBAT conference.  The highlight was probably the keynote by Naked Conversations authors Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.  This wasn’t your usual high-tech group, so there were quite a few who knew of neither and by show of hands a majority seemed to not know that Scoble had decided…