Below the Fold: Suicide, Satire, Plagiarism, and a 12-year-old girl
A wrap-up of stories and posts you might have missed or overlooked -- the ones below the fold.
A wrap-up of stories and posts you might have missed or overlooked -- the ones below the fold.
Posted 05.15.2012
A crew from TV newsmagazine Inside Edition recently visited the coal town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania to document the abandoned buildings of the dist...
Toni Nagy | Posted 05.02.2012
The more alienated we feel from each other, the easier we are to manipulate and distract.
Richard Zombeck | Posted 05.01.2012
The divisiveness, infighting, and turf wars have made it easy for the ones who created this mess to run roughshod over the American people and the laws that were meant to protect them.
2morrowknight | Posted 04.20.2012
Michelle Millman's intellect and command of topics is as impressive as her ability to connect with an expansive and diverse region of viewers. But what has endeared Michelle to an international audience is how she looked adversity in the face, and beat breast cancer.
www.bloomberg.com | Posted 03.31.2012
AOL Inc. (AOL) won dismissal of a suit by unpaid bloggers seeking $105 million for their work on the Huffington Post. U.S. District Judge John Koeltl...
Delia Lloyd | Posted 03.30.2012
The best bloggers I know never run out of material to write about because the they never run out of things that fascinate them. And they are able to transmit that sense of wonderment onto the page.
Jason Salzman | Posted 03.29.2012
With traditional journalism dying, here are some tips on blogging from Colorado bloggers, to inspire more and better blogging.
G Adventures | Posted 05.24.2012
Each day of the journey brought unpredictable thrills and excitement. And it wasn't just the landscapes that floored me.
Malik Yusef | Posted 05.19.2012
The independent media and bloggers took full advantage of SXSW having brought so much talent in one place by providing a voice for a new generation of hip hop artists allowing them to take their rightful place in the industry.
G Adventures | Posted 05.16.2012
From the stone-carved grandeur of ancient Persia to the dizzying bits of tile work and mirrored glass that define Islamic architecture, Iran's history is deep and visual. And if UNESCO World Heritage sites are your thing, Iran boasts over a dozen of them.
Posted 02.25.2012
Howard Kissel, the beloved theater critic who blogs as "the Cultural Tourist," passed away last night from complications from a liver transplant, the ...
Brandi Megan Granett | Posted 04.25.2012
There is nothing truly peaceful about taking your life -- whether it's your choice or not -- and halving it.
Gavin Shulman | Posted 04.24.2012
In this messy, mammoth, modern, multi-dimensional media environment it can sometimes leave a writer wondering: who am I?
John Brown | Posted 04.14.2012
"Strategic intellectual competitiveness?" What does that jaw-breaker have to do with the pleasures of the mind -- or, indeed, with our new supposedly collaborative, interconnected new world of the 21st century?
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 03.12.2012
Malini Agarwal is India's most famous blogger; an independent, effervescent young woman who has turned a hobby into a business, desire into reality and a whole lot of passion into an enormously successful brand.
Posted 01.05.2012
We here at HuffPost High School knew it all along (not to brag, or anything), but now there's the research to back it up -- a new study by the America...
David Henderson | Posted 02.28.2012
Professionally I do two things; I help organizations make high impact data-oriented decisions, and I write. As 2011 draws to a close, I reflect on ano...
Bunmi Laditan | Posted 02.21.2012
As a member of both the mom blog community and PR freak show, I'd like to offer up a few (strong) suggestions for us uterus-using scribes going forward.
Posted 12.22.2011
When Timothy Tiah, the founder of blogging site Nuffnang, decided he wanted to propose to Audrey Ooi Feng Ling, his long-time blogger girlfriend, he w...
Courtney C. Radsch | Posted 02.15.2012
Blogger Maikel Nabil was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday, a one-year reduction from his three-year sentence handed down on Apr. 11 by a military tribunal in closed session.
Dan Kennedy | Posted 02.07.2012
Judge Hernandez's ruling is dangerous not because he doesn't believe bloggers are journalists. Rather, it's dangerous because he believes journalists comprise a special class who are entitled to more constitutional rights than the rest of society.
Daniel Cubias | Posted 02.05.2012
Communication is a fundamental function of human existence. And it does not require corporate sponsorship. That primordial need to listen, and in turn to be heard, will always drive social media.
Robert Bettmann | Posted 01.30.2012
Isn't it true that great art reflects the ideals and inspirations of people today? What's wrong with a knee-jerk reaction to art? What's wrong with popularity?
Lori Day | Posted 01.04.2012
How many more posts do we need railing against the greed and immorality of corporate America and its sociopathic degradation of women and girls to make a buck? Sex sells, right?
Richard Zombeck | Posted 05.22.2012