Robert Scoble likes Bloglines Citations for its ability to track blog conversations. He points to the recent item about Microsoft preferring the term "blogcast" over "podcast." He’s right … that’s a good service. But more to the point, it will be interesting to see whether the blogcast term catches on. Obviously, right now it’s being…
The Washington Post covers the ongoing saga between bloggers and the FEC.
Readers will remember that one of the companies I am involved with is CustomScoop, an online media monitoring service. Our industry has typically been based on an "all you can eat" mentality, where there are no per clip fees or limits. This can be explained by the original impetus for many of our services: a…
Changes are coming to the bulk email market, according to DMNews, and it’s a mixed bag for advocacy email. The cost could be coming down, but the flexibility and effectiveness could be declining as well. E-mail list pricing could drop as much as 25 percent in the next three to six months because of changes…
An interesting article in the Washington Post identifies a growing issue for the interesection of technology and advocacy: email overload in Congress. If you think you’re swamped by Internet spam, pity the poor Congress. According to a new study, electronic messages to the House of Representatives doubled to 99 million from 2000 to 2004. In…
Over at one of the companies I’m involved with, CustomScoop, we’ve been playing with a new tool that we’ve only soft-launched and are getting feedback on. I thought I’d share it with readers of InterAdvocacy to see what you think. Basically, it’s a free service that let’s visitors see how two search terms do in…
AP has the latest on FEC efforts to regulate politics online: "I like to think of myself as just a guy with a blog, but it’s clear that ‘just a guy with a blog’ is different today than it was when I started three years ago," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Web log…
Reuters reports: Nearly one-fifth of Web users who read newspapers now prefer online to offline editions, according to a new study from Internet audience measurement company Nielsen//NetRatings. The first-time study from Nielsen//NetRatings found that 21 percent of those Web users now primarily use online versions of newspapers, while 72 percent still read print editions.
Three weeks ago, Kari Chisholm had an interesting post about how to build an email list. (I’m getting caught up on posting interesting reads today, in case you didn’t notice the flurry of posts.)
A Kintera/Luth study found that: On average, online givers donate in total (both online and offline) more than 50 percent more than those donors who do not give online.