More from Amy Gahran (I’m getting caught up on feeds tonight). I have heard from a surprising number of people — PR professionals even — who refuse to register for all of these news sites that require registration to read content. It’s an interesting problem as more sites go to registration. UPDATE: Mike Orren argues…
I’m headed mostly off the grid for the next week as I enjoy one of my periodic recharging periods — in this case my annual winter visit away from the snow (yes, there’s still a lot of it on the ground here in New Hampshire). There will be no new episode of Disruptive Dialogue this…
TechCrunch reviews the latest version of Attensa, an RSS reader that integrates with Outlook, and notes that: Attensa is aggresively adding features to compete with other readers and has an excellent product suite. However, some (including Jeff Nolan) have stopped using Attensa’s Outlook product because of reported difficulties in making these third party applications work…
The New York Daily News reports: Television will have to wait: Mayor Bloomberg is launching a $100,000, five-week Internet advertising blitz aimed at recruiting tens of thousand of volunteers, the Daily News has learned … The campaign currently has 6,000 volunteers, and it’s aiming to recruit a record 50,000. (Thanks to Kari Chisholm at Politics…
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….
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…