The news that older people are the fastest growing segment of Facebook users came as a shock to many, but not to me. You see, I live with one of them.

Of course I am also one myself, as my high school and college-aged kids would hastily point...

We live in an age when the quality of news reporting by the mainstream television media has stooped to new lows. It is an era where instead of reporting a story, television media now make the story. It is an era where the media allows itself to be manipulated by...

Last week, I wrote about the need for a new breed of MRAPs in Afghanistan. I picked the story up from the InsideDefense website. I failed to report that Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had pointed out that IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) posed "the...

The Washington Post has done something that comes as close to undermining our democracy as anything. It sought to sell tickets to lobbyists for fees up to $250,000 that would provide access and a cozy atmosphere at the home of publisher, Katharine Weymouth to "'those powerful few'" -- Obama administration...

We have all read and heard the repetitive discussion of the "wise Latina" quote. But what many have not paid attention to is the unfair name-calling, and cultural and racial attacks that Judge Sotomayor's candidacy.

The Women's Media Center (WMC) of New York City has compiled a compelling video that...

As the book business struggles to adjust to the digital age, some publishers are testing multimedia books and Web sites for popular authors.

St. Martin's just released the multimedia book "Personal Effects: Dark Art" by JC Hutchins and a multimedia...

It's easy to get jaundiced covering politics and government after awhile. So much of what happens in Washngtonworld is so predictable it's like the old joke about old jokes. They're so familiar someone assigns numbers to them.

Even after the historic election of Barack Obama, the collapse of the economy,...

I've often posted here about the horrors of Fox News. Each time I do, friends ask me a very simple and valid question: "If Fox News upsets you so much, why do you continue to watch?"

I always give them the same answer -- "Fox News is the train...

TubeMogul's David Burch says that an analysis of video discovery has found that blog are the biggest referrer of video views.

According to the  study by TubeMogul, 45% of video views come from specific searches
for a video.  Of the the...

Earlier this week, I wrote, on behalf of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), about the Air Force's decision to deny the request for a flyover at the Nampa, Idaho "God and County Festival." After two years of exposing the military's practice of providing support for blatantly sectarian...

A cheap camera, dogged determination, and a smart video blog strategy has created a national dialogue about election form in the United States.

At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York last week, I interviewed Jacob Soboff, who created the

I sat down with Alex Bogusky, the Golden Boy of Advertising, to get a sense of what he plans to do with the media industry.

The world of media is changing quickly--faster than many of us can comprehend. Most people have come to understand that how and where the public...

Call it further signs of the media swoon....

Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate (set up by the

Gossip was one of the consistent themes in my conversations with Murdoch when I interviewed him over nine months last year. If I brought him gossip, he was much happier than when I did not. Sometimes I made the gossip up -- that kept him as happy. Gossip,...

Since the beginning of the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin has used Twitter and Facebook to communicate with the public. Impostors have taken every opportunity to jack her persona, even hacking into her personal email account.

Now, hackers and impostors are chiming in on Sarah Palin's resignation. The Twitter profile...

The efforts of New Organizing Institute's BootCamp participants - 60 young organizers chosen for a crash course in utilizing new media for progressive campaigning - will be tested today in an interactive online mock campaign.

We've spent all week receiving technological training and getting drilled by expert instructors in...

What more can be said about the Internet's role in the popular uprising that has shaken the Iranian regime since its widely contested election?

The power of open social networks is undisputed. The Internet's three favorite offspring -- Twitter, Facebook and YouTube -- have been heralded by mainstream media...