Charles Best

As I gear up for the launch of StartRocket on August 1, I’m trying to line up a stable of people who will contribute to the site by writing profiles of startups and covering events.  The pay will be modest, but the exposure and opportunity should help as well.  And, of course, if this takes…

Today marks the start of a two day holiday at work for many Americans — also known as the first round of March Madness.  By lunchtime, anyone with a TV will likely have it on in their office and the rest of America will be sucking up bandwidth by getting online updates and watching online…

As presidential campaigns heat up in this age of the Internet, one expects to see the candidates get knocked for failing to buy up enough domain names to guard against the opportunists and creeps who use misspellings or derogatory combinations of the candidate’s name to create spoof or attack sites.  BL Ochman slams the Giuliani…

New York Times reports today on the future of cell phone advertising.  It notes that a number of companies and carriers are exploring how best to do advertising in this medium where the providers already know a fair bit about their customers.  The article is generally thin on details, but it certainly provokes my thinking….

OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration.  But it was a tough two hours this morning as I was unable to access my Newsgator feeds using FeedDemon between about 5 AM and 7 AM.  At first I thought it was my new Vista computer since it has been a bit cranky.  But when fiddling with…

Most of us would agree that transparency and disclosure represent important pillars of the best practices of digital advocacy. Political and issue campaigns ought not to deceive readers, viewers and listeners as to the nature of advocacy-oriented communications. Historically, the Federal Election Commission and other government agencies have required “paid for by” disclaimers on advertising,…