links for 2007-05-29

I originally posted this on TechJots, but I imagine readers here may be interested as well: I always knew I liked Shel Israel.  Now I know why: he’s a Red Sox fan! Seriously, though, he’s going to be part of a blogger dinner in Boston on July 12 at 7 pm at Fire and Ice…

An intriguing press release crossed the wire recently: Next Generation Advertising, LLC, a new, non-traditional advertising company, has opened its doors.  The company, based in the nation’s capital, will be one of the first to produce online "virtual" public policy campaigns.  The firm is founded by former ABC and Fox News Producer Richard Pollock ……

I admit I never even think about AOL as a player in online news search.  But I guess I should.  MarketingVox reports: AOL News has sprinted into a leading position in online news search, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net, writes SearchEngineWatch, citing July Nielsen/NetRatings data, according to which AOL News has a unique…

Jim Horton points to an interesting article about the progres of state and federal government agencies in making information more easily accessible online. A brief excerpt: West and his team of researchers conducted a detailed analysis of 1,620 state and federal government Web sites. Among the report’s findings: • 73 percent of state and federal…

For most of my life, baseball has been my favorite sport. There’s something soothing about watching a game, especially in person. Baseball has strategy and data — things that I have loved since a young age. It also has cheating. Cheating has been part of the game for generations. Almost exactly a century ago, the…

The Standards Editor of the New York Times,  Allan M. Siegal, made an interesting admission in an interview with his own publication today: I’m supposed to be the recipient of any complaints and misgivings by the staff about how we’re doing and what we’re doing, the person who adjudicates differences of opinion about how we…