Saturday, September 11, 2004

GOP on the web

Montana Republicans have produced what they say is the state's first internet video politcal ad. I couldn't get it to open (not that I tried very hard), but you can try here.

Your ID for sale

This story may provide some insight into why Albertsons started doing this.

Saturday, September 04, 2004

For what it's worth

Of the 18 students in my new journalism class last Thursday, only a couple had heard of blogs, nobody had one, none read them and no one knew the origin of the term. Not a scientific sample, obviously, but if anything I would have guessed the sample would be biased in favor of blog knowledge. But that was a pretty typical result for my journalism classes. Makes me wonder, as I speculate here, about how important blogs really are.