links for 2007-04-24

• Presidential Debates Go Online - Yahoo! News
  Three major Web sites -- Yahoo Elections 2008, The Huffington Post, and Slate -- have announced that they will collectively host two online-only debates, one for the announced Democratic candidates and one for Republicans.
  (tags: Politics 2008)
• Ad firm adapts digital strategy / Out of necessity, Goodby focuses more on new media
  "Out of necessity, Goodby focuses more on new media"
  (tags: Advertising Agencies)
• From Many Tweets, One Loud Voice on the Internet - New York Times
  (tags: twitter)
• Advertising Age - Feeling Anti-Social Media? Relax! It's Really Nothing New
  "Paul Gillin Says Marketers Shouldn't Fear Bottom-up Publicity"
  (tags: Web2.0 Marketing FUD Advertising)
• Blogs Now Infested With Offensive Content - Yahoo! News
  "The Internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested."
  (tags: Blogs malware spam)

Comments

[David Erickson]

Steve,

One qualification to the online presidential debates link: They are billing it as the first ever online-only presidential debate. That's not true. In 2000, I worked on the Web White & Blue project, sponsored by the Markle Foundation, which was the first online-only presidential debate.

The archives are at www.webwhiteblue.org.