Old media meets new media:  A conservative stalwart, Americans for Tax Reform, is using act.ly to encourage GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava to sign its Taxpayer Pledge....

Dede Scozzafava: Sign the Taxpayer Pledge

Taxpayers are faced with another dilemma in the special election to
replace former Congressman John McHugh® of New York’s 23rd
Congressional District. There are three candidates competing to replace
McHugh: Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, liberal GOPer Dede
Scozzafava, and Democrat Bill Owens. Of the three, Doug Hoffman is the
only candidate to sign ATR’s Taxpayer Protection Pledge. It’s a simple
60 word pledge that says the signer will vote against and oppose any
and all attempts to raise income taxes on the federal level.

Facebook is the Most Valuable Source of Traffic [Stats]

Between search engines and social media, there are a lot of different ways that people can get to your website. But which of these sources provides loyal users that come back to your site multiple times?

That’s the subject of a new study by ad network Chitika, who analyzed the browsing habits of 33 million unique users over the course of September. 

Tweetmeme Adds Analytics to Make Sense of Twitter Links

As Twitter grows, with an estimated 50 million+ live accounts, it is increasingly becoming an important source of traffic for many Websites. But getting a handle on how much traffic it is actually delivering, where it is coming from, and the viral nature of that traffic is a real challenge. Today, “social media experts” everywhere can rejoice because Tweetmeme is launching Tweetmeme Analytics, which offers a full dashboard showing how many times a link has been tweeted, retweeted, and clicked on by which Twitter users, in what cities, and from which referring sites and URL shorteners.