Author - Colin Delany

How Sticky is Politico.com?

At a presentation last night to the assembled journalists (and a few randoms like me) at the Knight New Media Center online politics seminar, Politico.com editor Bill Nichols mentioned in passing that in March, the Politico site had six million page...

Good Lessons on Damage Control from Google

Steve Rubel recently pointed to an article from Google’s “Consumer Packaged Goods” blog (a niche most of don’t contemplate regularly) that covers the question of damage control in a crisis, a situation that absolutely never...

Vote Early! Vote Often!

Hi y’all, a friend of e.politics who shall remain nameless ([cough] Laura S. Quinn [cough]) has written in to highlight the TechSoup NetSquared Innovation Awards, the voting for which ends today at 5:00 Pacific time (8 pm in dog years). 150 no...

Cell Phones: Not Just for the Young

So, the other night I saw a strange thing while watching cable (no, tragically, psychedelics were not involved) — it was an ad for a cell phone that was clearly intended for older people who were scared of cell phones. The ad itself was aimed...

Quick Hits — April 10, 2007

I just caught Susan Finkelpearl cheating on us with Democracy in Action! Moreover, she’s brazenly flaunting her Tips (for Sprucing up Your Website), and in public, too! Does User-Generated Content Work for Political Campaigns? Todd Zeigler...