What’s the Point of VP Debates?

Heather Green over at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting writes: PaidContent and Techdirt dig through the two conflicting surveys from JupiterResearch and CLX on podcasts…and come up with the most logical line on who the audience for podcasts is….No one knows.

Townhall.com is spinning off from The Heritage Foundation to become a separate entity and is shedding its 501(c)3 tax status in the process.  This represents a major development as it will no longer be constrained by IRS rules to avoid political activism.  It has the potential to become a powerful conservative grassroots activation tool.  (As…

Jason Calacanis takes a look at what the recent changes in the search/portal area mean — and how he sees things going in the future. Another day, another series of amazing changes in our industry. Today Microsoft got into Google’s Adsense business, Yahoo finally admmitted they are in the content business, and Google is getting…

MediaPost: A University of Missouri J-School experiment with a "citizen journalism" site found Readers and potential contributors are not interested in a rehash of events and issues that are already covered ad nauseum by the city’s other news media. Rather, they are interested in issues that go largely ignored on the nightly news

Henry Copeland of BlogAds goes ballistic on those who call blogs consumer generated media: Calling blogs consumer-generated media is like calling sex the "clothless generation of heat, musk and mucus." The essential excitement and motivation just doesn’t come through, does it? He certainly gets wound up on the subject.  And he has a point —…