Posted by J. Scott Orr October 17, 2008 3:11PM
Sure, they're as dull as kindergarten scissors, but at least the videos, Facebook updates and other online postings from members of Congress are no longer against Capitol Hill rules.
Long-ignored House and Senate regulations prohibited lawmakers from taking advantage of many social media resources -- like the video-sharing site YouTube and the micro-blogging platform Twitter -- because on those sites, the members' content would be accompanied... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr October 10, 2008 3:00PM
Categories: Internet, Twitter
This is really cool. Watch tweets from members of Congress courtesy of the Sunlight Foundation's Capitol Tweets widget. The widget updates you every 10 minutes with the latest tweets from Capitol Hill. You can get it here. Still, you'd think out of 535 members, at least one of them would have something engaging to say. Seems most of them are subgeniuses when it comes to using online resources.
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Posted by J. Scott Orr October 07, 2008 1:35PM
Internet auction colossus eBay is trying to pull back the covers on a bid by major retailers to convince Congress that new restrictions should be placed on the relationship between online auction sites and their users.
The big-box retail chains say they are concerned eBay and similar online sales sites offer professional shoplifters a largely anonymous venue for e-fencing their stolen goods. But eBay says brick-and-mortar retailers are usin... Read Full Story
Posted by By J. Scott Orr October 06, 2008 2:16PM
Categories: Politics
In advance of the 2004 presidential election, we took a look at the online prediction market intrade.com. Here's an updated version of that story, focusing on this year's election.
While traditional polls show this year's race for the White House to be close, speculators willing to back up their predictions with cash give Democatic Sen. Barack Obama a 67 percent chance of beating Republican Sen. John McCain. (The sc... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 26, 2008 11:10AM
Categories: Politics
This graphic shows how traffic to Obama related sites far outpaces traffic to sites focuding on McCain, according to online marketing firm AdGooRoo.com.
If internet searches and click throughs were votes, Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would best Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain in a landslide.
So says a new report from the Chicago-based online marketing firm AdGooroo , which found five times more online of t... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 18, 2008 11:33AM
Okay, so you've been editing Wikipedia for a while now, but with all that content and all those participants, do you understand how the information behemoth really works?
A new book "How Wikipedia Works," could be the ultimate road map to a higher Wikipedia consciousness for the dead tree set that feels more comfortable when their online enterprises are backed by words written on paper.
More a user's manual than the latest in the "for dumm... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 17, 2008 12:09PM
Categories: Internet, Politics
These Sarah Palin action figures, sold at herobuilders.com, are just one example of the GOP VP candidate's suddenly ubiquitous online profile.
When she was named the Republican vice presidential candidate late last month, Sarah Palin was certainly the least known of the four major-party candidates in the campaign for the White House.
But in terms of the growth of popularity on the internet, the others would so... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 15, 2008 3:53PM
Researchers are working to cut the final cord.
Hoping to usher in a new era of communications freedom, researchers at MIT, Intel and elsewhere believe they can do for charging your cell phone or laptop what WiFi did for information delivery -- that is, get rid of those annoying wires.
Marin Soljacic, a professor at MIT, sees a day not far off when cords connecting electronic devices to wall outlets will seem as outdated as those curly cabl... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 09, 2008 4:56AM
Reports of United Airlines' demise, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated.
A bizarre mix-up yesterday had multiple organizations trying to deflect blame for a 2002 story about UAL's pending bankruptcy that reappeared as fresh news and fed frantic dumping of company shares.
Before the confusion was untangled, trading in UAL, the corporate parent of United, had to be halted, shares lost 76 percent of their value and the company saw $1.13 b... Read Full Story
Posted by J. Scott Orr September 08, 2008 2:25PM
Is it really possible to earn a living selling your opinions to online researchers?
Survey says: No.
Despite wild claims on countless websites, the idea that you can earn thousands of dollars a month effortlessly by filling out online surveys is laughable to legitimate pollsters. While it is possible to earn some extra cash as an online survey subject, unless you can live off a few dollars an hour, don't quit your day job.
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