links for 2007-05-29

Steve Rubel offers an interesting chart from Technorati, the blog search engine, that seems to show that most spikes in blog posting volume occur around political events. David Sifry also comments that "We see the largest number of posts each day between the hours of 7AM and noon Pacific time, meaning between 10AM and 3PM…

PaidContent draws attention to a potential sleeper issue for Internet content providers, aggregators, and readers: how far can caching go?  The post involves a lawsuit against the Internet Archive (a tremendous service that let’s you look back at what a web site looked like years ago).

My Internet radio show, Disruptive Dialogue, is coming back.  It has been on hiatus since the last episode was recorded and released on July 4.  I had put it on the shelf because of time constraints and because, although I was getting positive feedback on it, I didn’t feel it had really found the right…

AdAge reports on that the Washington Post has become an early adopter of RSS ads.  I’ve seen them in the feeds I subscribe to from the Post and they are done well — easily seen but not obnoxious.

Earlier this week I blogged about Problems with Attensa, a new feed reader that integrates with Outlook.  Word got to Mike Beale at Attensa and he reached out to me to see how he could help.  I’ve now been using it successfully for a few days and am very impressed — both with the product…

Kari Chisholm and Taegan Goddard both have pointed to a report in The Hill that credits John Kerry with a big advatnage because of his 3 million name email list.  Kerry’s 2004 Finance Chair boasts: “There is a zero marginal cost to communicate with them,” Randlett said of voters in Kerry’s database. “He can wait…