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Today, we're also kicking offWireside, our new podcast interview series with leading GOPers. This week Kevin sits down andtalks shop with former Reagan speechwriter and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan.
We'll still be bringing youBookCast- our interview series with noted authors - as well.
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Michael Turk
Web TV All the RageNetworks are already beginning to offer their popular programs via the Web as well as unique Web-only programming with some providing programming that is truly in the control of the viewer. If your favorite show is not available on the Net yet, you may not have to wait long. Saul Hansell for the New York Times writes that "[I]t looks like that future may well be by way of the computer, as big media and Internet companies develop
new Web-based video programming and advertisingthat is truly under the command of the viewer. As Americans grow more comfortable watching programs online, Internet programming is beginning to combine the interactivity and immediacy of the Web with the alluring engagement of television." Companies who already offer such programming: Nickelodeon with its TurboNick service, CBS with its news updates and additional reports, America Online, MTV and others.
Mindy Finn
Study Shows Whopping Conservative Advantage in Political BlogosphereWe know we rule technopolitics, but it's nice to see a study that backs us up, especially one from a Democrat-based think tank. And today, Washington Times columnist Donald Lambro reports on this new study, saying that "Liberal activist Web loggers have made major advances on the Internet, but they remain far behind their conservative adversaries among the top 250 political blogs." "In a detailed report on the
political power being wielded by bloggers, who have become a potent force in national and state campaigns, the study found that while liberals have 'a decided advantage' over conservatives among the top 40 blogs (24-16), 'conservatives hold a whopping 133 to 77 advantage' among the next 210 blogs. The study said this was 'a serious problem that progressives must confront,' if they are going to overcome the conservatives' advantage at the local level." The Times notes, "The study, 'Emergence of the Progressive Blogosphere: A New Force in American Politics,' was conducted by two Democratic bloggers for the New Politics Institute, a political think tank."
Mindy Finn
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