Author - Colin Delany

Republicans vs. YouTube

This evening, the Republican presidential candidates will finally submit to the unthinkable and take questions from the great unwashed masses. Josh at tPrez looked at some of the noteworthy submissions yesterday, and I’m sure a ton of sites...

Helping Your Videos Stand Out on YouTube

The folks over at Collactive have put together a great list of tips on designing video clips so that they’ll have the best chance of doing well on YouTube and by extension other video sharing sites. Besides information on preparing the actual...

You’re Invited: Political Marketing Discussion

Hi y’all, next Tuesday the DC chapter of the American Marketing Association is putting on a panel discussion about online political marketing and what folks in the business world can learn from it. I’m moderating, and I bet some of the...

Bloggers Ask Better Questions Than Reporters

At least, according to Christopher Beam at Slate: he reviews questions from two recent Mike Huckabee conference calls, one for reporters and one for bloggers, and finds that the bloggers asked much more substantive questions. Looking at the list...

Google’s OpenSocial and the Spread of Widgets

A quick thought about Google’s OpenSocial, which was unveiled a few weeks ago: while most of the attention focused on the use of OpenSocial Google Gadgets on social networking sites, Gadgets are actually web widgets that’ll run on most...