With the DNC just a year out, The Denver Post has launched Politics West: The West is in play. In 2008, Democrats and Republicans will be looking for the right strategy to win Western voters. PoliticsWest.com will chronicle those efforts, giving you the latest news and information in the form you want. The site effectively [...]
So long YouTubers, hello Hollywood celebrities. According to the Denver Post’s Kimberly Johnson Denver-based ManiaTV is getting rid of the video content submitted by viewers. Celebrities drive more ad sponsorships, it seems, than vids uploaded by Joe Sixpack. .hov:hover{background-color:yellow} “We decided that user-generated content is passé, and not a part of what we want [...]
In a follow-up article from the YearlyKos Convention, Denver Post reporter Chuck Plunkett discusses buzz around bloggers taking on hard-hitting local beats. Colorado Confidential’s Wendy Norris: “That is the wave of the future for blogging – the state and local.” If you’re unfamiliar with Colorado Confidential, here’s how it describes its mission: Colorado Confidential is [...]
That’s what the new director of online communications for the Democratic National Convention, Jason Rosenberg, promised bloggers would do during the DNC next August in Denver. Technologically speaking, of course. He was talking about how the DNC is going to really leverage this little thing called the World Wide Web, a system of interlinked, hypertext [...]
In the face of layoffs and buyouts, everyone’s wondering what newspapers are going to do to survive in the 21st century. In our view, it’s encouraging to see some newspapers embracing technology instead of retreating from it. Many newspapers are now offering video on their websites. Here regionally a number of papers’ websites feature a [...]