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...
[Cross-posted on the Covering Politics in Cyberspace blog.] More from sprawling depths of Los Angeles in a lunchtime presentation at the Knight New Media Center online politics seminar, Michael Skoler of Minnesota Public Radio gave a glimpse...
Internet/politics legend Mike Cornfield, who’s also here in LA for the Knight New Media Center seminar on Covering Politics in Cyberspace, just shot me a link to a groovy new application from OpenSecrets.org it’s a browsable...
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...
With a nod to Daniel Gross’s occasional Slate pieces on unusual economic indicators, let’s do a quick drive-by of the Los Angeles Times’s parking garage. What we’d have seen a few weeks ago, according to one of the LA-based...
Hi y’all, I’ve left the cold, sad and dark East for a few days in the soft sun of Southern California I’m at a journalism seminar in LA. Not sure if I’ll be writing much while I’m here, but some zippy new article...
[Update: see the comment at the end of the article for more on this subject and an important correction…] The author of the French blog Netpolitique left a trackback/comment the other day on my article from a few weeks ago on saturation...
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...
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...
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...