GigaOm: How Twitter Could Bring About World Peace
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:31
Academic research on Twitter shows individual journalists' Twitter accounts may be more effective than brands': "People are more important than brands. Many of the biggest Twitter accounts are big media brands such as CNN and Time, but t…
New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:31
"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."
Forbes.com: Interactive: Billionaires’ Favorite Politicians
Monday, 1 November 2010, 18:43
"The billionaires on the Forbes 400 list have given more than $30 million to politicians and political action committees since 2006, along with millions more in soft money to politically active groups. Although Forbes 400 members give about 15% more money to Republicans than Democrats, they fund groups across the political spectrum."
Channel 4: Who Knows Who
Thursday, 12 November 2009, 19:06
"Who Knows Who is Channel 4's new website which shows the connections between politicians, celebrities and business leaders, and where power really lies in the UK. We hope that it will reveal the surprising and often hidden stories behind the headlines. This is the first iteration of an ongoing process to develop this tool to be rich in content and functionality and over time build the biggest network of connections in the UK."
Nieman Journalism Lab: Niche outlets replace newspapers in Washington
Sunday, 19 July 2009, 21:00
"Washington is still teeming with hacks. They’re just working for new types of organizations. American newspaper reporters accredited to the Senate Press Gallery have declined 30 percent since the 1997-98 session, but the total number of U.S.-based reporters has remained steady (from 1,362 to 1,319). That’s because reporters from niche news outlets — think Politico, Roll Call, political magazines, and endless industry newsletters — have increased a stunning 49 percent (from 335 to 500)."
Techcrunch: AOL’s PoliticsDaily Quickly Surpasses Rival Politico, MediaGlow Sites Continue To Grow
Thursday, 2 July 2009, 22:27
"AOL’s new political news and blog site, PoliticsDaily.com has surpassed rival Politico.com in unique visits in May, after being launched only a month and a half ago."
Journalism.co.uk: ‘Democratic legitimation via the web is not enough’, says Clay Shirky
Wednesday, 4 February 2009, 08:59
"Shirky says he previously made certain assumptions about the result of what he calls 'crowd wisdom' and its positive impact for democracy. Now he believes that public pressure via the internet could be 'just another implementation layer for special interest groups'."
Iain Dale: Will Derek Draper’s new Labour website give me some competition? I hope so
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 09:53
"[Derek] Draper plans to spend three days a week on the site. That's not enough. He needs to breathe it morning, noon and night, especially in the first six months. It's his baby and it is his efforts that will make it succeed or fail. He's got to be the inspirational driving force behind it. It needs to be updated many times a day. Just posting the odd new article will not be enough. I update my site between 5 and 10 times a day. "
Techcrunch: When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record
Saturday, 29 November 2008, 15:45
"There’s a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician."
Journalism.co.uk: Rise in political blogging results in more government press officers
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 07:28
"Sir Gus O'Donnell, cabinet secretary and head of the Home Civil Service, today defended an increase in the number of press officers in government and said the increase was a response to the 1,600 political bloggers in the UK."
Advertising Lab: Prediction Markets Go Nuts Over Rep VP Pick
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 10:25
"[I]f prediction markets are any indication, nobody saw Palin coming. I was up till 5am last night watching CNN's political market and as you can see on the graph above, it was all about Pawlenty and Romney"
10,000 Words: Word cloud analysis of 2008 DNC Speeches
Friday, 29 August 2008, 06:38
A word cloud analysis of the speeches by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Al Gore and Michelle Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Tuesday, 24 June 2008, 09:35
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"While direct income from [Iain Dale's] blog has been modest – ads provided by Google Ads and Message Space earn Dale about £7,000 a year – its value in promoting his “brand” has been huge."
Thursday, 3 April 2008, 17:55
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"A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a small number of postings, failed to create much interaction between the blogger and the audience and attrac
