Blog Influence Overblown?

Kate Kaye blogs about a new Pew study on blog influence: Bloggers are often touted as influential instigators, feeding buzz-worthy topics to the mainstream media they so disdain, and even guiding discussion in other communication channels. Not so, says a new study analyzing the impact of political blogs on the national conversation leading up to…

Online Ads About to Take Off?

MediaPost reports: POLITICAL CANDIDATES ARE STARTING TO believe that online advertising allows them far greater opportunities to extend reach and target constituents than do traditional ad campaigns, said panelists Monday at a conference in New York City sponsored by Personal Democracy Forum, a Web site dedicated to examining how technology and the Internet are changing…

Blogging for Dollars

The Washington Post today covers the latest discussion about how to regulate political bloggers (if at all).  It seems that everyone is in agreement that most  should not be subject to FEC regulation, but there remains one sticky area yet to address: bloggers paid by campaigns. Most are familiar with the "paid for by …"…