A Layman’s Primer on AJAX
For all of those who have heard about this cool new Web 2.0 technology called AJAX but have no idea what it is or what it means for the average user, the CNET did a decent write-up.
Idil Cakin of Burson Marstellar offers some good advice about dealing with the blogosphere in an article for DMNews. Excerpted below are some of the more interesting points. Whoever comes up with the best "secret sauce" to solve the problem of weighting blogs will have a powerful offering. (This is something the brains at CustomScoop…
Well-known PR measurement expert Katie Paine is blogging about the International Public Relations Research Conference going on in Miami. She has an intriguing observation which hopefully she’ll elaborate on when she’s not running between sessions: Howard Dean and the DNC would be adviced to carefully study Len Barshak’s ongoing Q-Sort study of attititudes about the…
According to Tom Evslin, it is a book published in blog format. But it is more than just a simple format change: Evslin has written a novel, Hackoff.com, that makes the entire blog experience, including comments, an integral part of the content, according to Fred Wilson. Unfortunately, the site seems to be down right now,…
ClickZ: PubSub has begun an effort to compile lists of influential Weblogs by category, which could be of use to media buyers and planners eager to buy advertising in blogs.
I was stunned today when my wife handed me a letter from the US Department of Transportation. It was letting us know about the “National Household Travel Survey” that is being conducted. Apparently, we can expect to receive a phone call about this in the near future, and they would like us to participate. It…
The Chicago Tribune reports on the FEC’s latest plans for regulating online political activity. And, at least as sketched out in this report, the proposal seems reasonable since it seeks to mimic "real world" requirements in cyberspace. Web loggers, who pride themselves on freewheeling political activism, might face new federal rules on candidate endorsements, online…