Hi all,

I'm a PhD candidate in journalism and mass comm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  My primary research interest is political blogs and I am conducting a survey of blog readers that I would greatly appreciate your participation in:

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~asveenst ra/09study-3/start.html

Completing this survey will take about 15-20 minutes and will require a high-speed Internet connection (if you can view YouTube videos your connection will work fine).  As thanks for participating, 10 respondents will be randomly selected at the conclusion of the study to receive $25 gift cards to Amazon.com.  If you have questions about the study, feel free to contact me at asveenstra@wisc.edu.  Thanks for your help!

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I'm the student leader the Social Media & Democracy research group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  We conducted a survey of political blog readers in 2006 and are following that up with a new study this year.  This is a two-part study, the second part of which will happen after the elections in November.  We would greatly appreciate if you could take 15-20 minutes to participate in the survey.  It is online at:

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/smad/08su rvey/start.html

If you are interested in our research group, we have a new and in-progress web site up, which has some of the papers we've produced with more on the way:

http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/smad/

The group is overseen by Professor Dhavan Shah, and if you have questions about the study you can contact him at dshah@wisc.edu or myself at asveenstra@wisc.edu.  We hope to have initial results on our site by November and results from the full study by early 2009.  Thanks for your help, we greatly appreciate it!

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(Posted at dKos as well, I'm trying to get as much input as I can.)

I'm attending an informal lunch with the Politico's Jim VandeHei on Monday, with about 10 other people.  He is giving a talk in the UW-Madison j-school on, I think, that afternoon and is meeting with some faculty and grad students to discuss news and new media issues over free food.  Any thoughts on good stuff to ask him about?  I'm going to stay away from Drudge, because I think Glenn Greenwald's exchange with John Harris has that pretty well covered, but any other specifics?  I haven't followed the Politico any more than generally, other than their big screw-up on the Elizabeth Edwards story, so your thoughts on this are appreciated.

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