[Update: More media coverage and some Obama damage control below.] Micah Sifry posted a fascinating analysis last night of the Obama campaign’s takeover of a formerly volunteer-run MySpace site for the candidate, complete with dueling...
In a move with implications for any organization or campaign using the site for video hosting, YouTube will begin experimenting with video advertising as soon as this summer, according to Red Herring: The video-sharing site that was acquired by...
This Saturday, I happened to catch an episode of NPR’s On The Media, an excellent show that I’m going to have to start following as a podcast (it’s on at 4 pm on Saturdays here in DC, a time when I’m usually out on a bike or...
Eight Easy Steps To Internet Superstardom. Video tutorials from Jack Black and others — why not try a little humour to get your political points across? ABCNews.com Relaunches with Citizen Journalism. Also with new emphasis on video (and dreams...
For an example, let’s take a quick look at the front page of yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer: “After weeks of blogging about the Philadelphia mayor’s race, Sam Katz has taken a step toward jumping into it.” Would that...
Quick Hits Returns! (And this time it’s personal…) Al-Jazeera launches YouTube channel, apparently leaving film editor at home. On a related note, American conservatives launch a site to keep House Dems “accountable.”...
Bring me the head of a web intern! (and cart along the rest of the body while you’re at it). Yep, I’m fixin’ to lose a long-serving intern at my day job and am commencing the hunt for the next one. The officialese: I’m...
Update: Politico.com’s publisher responds. See below. The recent discussion about Politico.com’s traffic “stickiness” got me thinking about the different strategies behind building a niche audience vs. building a mass...
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...
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...