links for 2005-10-04
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Conference to be held in December in Jersey City
PaidContent: “American Public Media Group (APMG), parent company to Minnesota Public Radio, has invested almost $1 million in the for-profit, Boston-based Gather.com. The new venture is a social networking website devoted to creating an online community of public-radio listeners.”
Washington Post: The Federal Election Commission revealed yesterday that it plans to take what one of its commissioners termed a "relatively nonintrusive" approach to regulating political campaigns on the Internet.
Jason Kottke makes a strong case that Technorati is heading in the wrong direction. That’s it. I’ve had it. No more Technorati. I’ve used the site for, what, a couple of years now to keep track of what people were saying about posts on kottke.org and searching blogs for keywords or current events. During that…
PaidContent.org: API’s $2 Million Newspaper Thinktank The American Press Institute has launched a $2 million year-long research project trying to find new business models for newspapers (tags: Newspapers BusinessModels)
Who would have thought that the public affairs folks at Cisco would actually lead the way at the high-tech company by launching the networking giant’s first official blog? Neville Hobson draws attention to this groundbreaking effort. (Link: NevOn: Cisco breaks new ground with government affairs blog.)
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? Apparently Jason Calacanis and I both missed the story a while back that ESPN.com was refusing to stream video to customers of certain ISP’s that would not pay them (tags: onlinevideo) Social Information Overload in many respects, social network overload…