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Social Media: How Delta Airlines Loses Business One Customer at a Time

Noah Mallin | Posted 10.16.2009 | Technology

Read More: Airline, Twitter, Customer Service, Atlanta, Facebook, Delta Airlines, Blog, Google, Delta, Technology News

I just had an absurdly Kafka-esque experience with Delta Airlines in Atlanta that involved missed connections, a seeming tour of the bowels of the airport, and some of the worst customer service ever.

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New York Review: The Blog (Preview)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Nobel, Supreme Court, Dworkin, Books, Jonathan Raban, Nyr, Italy, New York Review of Books, Blogs, Garry Wills, Blog, New York Review, Book Reviews, Hillary Clinton, Town Hall Meetings, Reading, Blogging, China, Healthcare, Books News

The New York Review of Books, our content partner, Is teasing its new site by giving us a peek at their brand new blog section today. As usual it is f...

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Op-Ed Page, Newspapers, Washpost, Bloggers, Writing, Msm, Pundit Contest, Newspaper, Opinion, Froomkin, Media, Journalism, Prize, Blogs, Mainstream Media, Politics, Contest, Wapo, Chris Weigant, Blog, Essay, Newspaper Industry, Post, Washington Post, America's Next Great Pundit, Editorial, Op-Ed, Huffington Post, Pundit, Dan Froomkin, Media News

Newspapers seem to be clinging to blandness as a viable business model in an exciting new world of opinions available to their potential customers -- to their detriment. And then they wonder why they're failing.

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Behemoth Blogs Taking Over The Web

The Atlantic | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogs, Mass Media, Blogger, Professional Bloggers, Clay Shirky, Atlantic, Blog, Blogging, Technology News

Almost everyone weighing in agreed that blogging has become more corporate, more ossified, and increasingly indistinguishable from the mainstream medi...

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Creative Minds Needed -- Help Us Rename the KDP Blog!

Mike Nellis | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contest, Kansas, Kansas Democratic Party, Blog, Politics News

Our new website won't be done for a little while but we're leaking a bit of it today. (I couldn't wait!)

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Dictionary Removes Beaver, Replaces With Blog and Blackberry

Michelle Howard | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Language, Green Living, Youth, Children, Nature, Robert Bateman, Ecophobia, Oxford Junior Dictionary, Dictionary, Dictionary Add Words, Blog, David Sobel, MP3 Players, Alien Test, Green News

Another loss for team nature with the decision by the publisher of the Oxford Junior Dictionary to replace dozens of nature-related words with more relevant words like "blog" and "MP3 player."

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Nasim Fekrat, Afghanistan's Biggest Blogger, Hopes To Show Country's Softer Side

Foreign Policy | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan's Blogger, Blogger, Afghanistan, Blog, Helmand, Farsi, Blogging, War Wire, World News

Although he passionately hopes to bring Afghan art, culture, and music -- life, really -- to readers around the world with his blog, Fekrat certainly ...

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Fashion Designer Eric Gaskins Closes Business To Blog

New York Times | Eric Wilson | Posted 08.30.2009 | Style

Read More: Blogger, Fluff Chance, Fashion Designer, Blog, Eric Gaskins, Pseudonym, Fashion, The Emperor's Old Clothes, Style News

Those who have known him for long can attest that he is such a nice guy that he is about the last person they would have suspected was behind a scathi...

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Student Loan Forgiveness Initiative Gaining Momentum?

Jon Chattman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Website, Gm, Grassroots, Economy, Middle Class, Stimulating the Economy, Obama, Democracy, Robert Applebaum, Student Loans, Facebook, U.S. Senate, Unemployment, Town Hall, Blog, College, Student Loan Forgiveness, Councilman, Politics News

With the lack of jobs for new graduates, as well as older borrowers, there is a looming student loan bubble about to burst.

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Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Liars, George Bush, Andrew Breitbart, National Review, President Obama, Leftist, Communist, Free Speech, Moral Relativism, Obama, Liberal, Jed Babbin, Cold War, Lunatic Ravings, Republican, Bush, Reality-Based, Internet, Goons, Cold War Is Over, Irony, Dirty Tricks, Vandalism, Irony-Impaired, Rush, Socialist, Moveon, Huffington Post, Limbaugh, Totalitarianism, Ends Justify the Means, Marketplace of Ideas, Boycott, Ideologue, Rush Limbaugh, Blog Readers, Commie, Propaganda, Hugh Hewitt, Conservative, Right Wing, Blog Commenters, Ironically-Challenged, Election, Wicked, Barack Obama, Ironic, Fair Play, Media Matters, Blog, Chris Weigant, Instapundit, Dogma, Humanity, Nixon, Censorship, Breitbart, Crazytown, Crazytalk, Media News

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

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America: Make April 8th "National Info-Less Day"

Spencer Green | Posted 04.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Internet, News Organizations, Information Overload, Digg, Information, Blog, Bloggers, Computers, Email, Information Age, Nadya Suleman, Twitter, Media, Facebook, News, Comedy News

That's 24 hours in which no person, no media organization, no blogger, no social network, no whoever or whatever can disseminate, transmit, broadcast, pass along any new information to anyone else.

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One Lucky Dooce: Stay-At-Home Mom Rules Blogosphere

Jill Yaworski | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Blog, Heather Armstrong, Stay-at-Home Moms, Dooce, Media News

Heather Armstrong believes posting "persistently and consistently" is the key to success. By updating her Web site at least once a day, Armstrong's readers continually check Dooce for new material.

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Why I Blog

Giles Slade | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogsphere, Cnn, Blogger, Snark, Blog, Bloggers, Npr, Democracy, Spitballs, Integrity, Zorba the Greek, Living News

I am unadorned and unhidden here in cyberspace. I don't use a moniker or an avatar. I write my mind and, although I joke whenever I can, I listen to all comers and respond to them respectfully.

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The Big Lie At The Heart Of McCain's Ayers Campaign

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media

In a deep sense, this election really is about turning the page on the thinking that would divide us by whether we have regrets about Vietnam. Or Iraq. Or war period.

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Switzerland- voted #1 Green Country in the World

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 10.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Globally, Stefanie Michaels, Adventure, Central Europe, Going Green, Hydrogen, Travel, Adventure Girl, Switzerland, Environmental, Solar Energy, Niger, Parks, Environmental Performance Index, World, Energy Companies, George Clooney, Green, Ski Season, Yale, Hotel Europa, Fuel Cells, Blog, Environment, St. Moritz, Clean Energy Project, Huffington Post, Swiss Companies, Columbia, Eco-Aware, Alps, Alpine, Badrutt's Palace, Green News

Hello fellow "Greenies"- I'm Stefanie Michaels. I am also known as Adventure Girl from Adventure Girl.com. I am excited to be a part of Huffington Pos...

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Buried Treasure -- Finding Long Lost Friends

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Style, Blog, Social Networking, Searching, Alumni, Retro Friends, Finding Friends, Old Friends, Living, Reunions, Hallmark, Long Lost Friend Day, Papyrus, Living News

In the midst of an archaeological dig amongst the piles on my messy desk this morning, I found a not-yet-used 2008 calendar from Papyrus and I discovered that today is Long Lost Friend Day.

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Netroots Nation Diggs Pelosi, Tubes Obama

Ari Melber | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Ari Melber, Digg, Get Fisa Right, Nancy Pelosi, Surveillance, Joe Rospars, Spying, Chris Hughes, Social Network Activism, Youtube Politics, Samantha Power, Netroots Nation, Barack Obama, Blog, Mybarackobama, Msm, Wes Clark, Fisa, nn08, Paul Krugman, Sns, Politics News

Three years ago, web activists were undeniable outcasts in Democratic politics and no bar outside of Berkeley could spell "netroots." Now, the movement has an open line to every player in the party.

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Redefining the Press In An Election Year

Michael Lawlor | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Press, Blog, Election, Online, Free Speech, Home News

As the concept of the press and what constitutes news are continually being challenged and redefined, freedom of the press becomes an even more crucial concept.

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Obama Web Site Protest Grows

Bob Ostertag | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Fisa, Politics News, Surveillance, Obama FISA, Netroots, Barack Obama, Networked Activism, Blog, Spying, Politics News

Online protest has continued to grow against Obama's decision to support legislation granting legal immunity to telecom companies that cooperated with the Bush's program of wiretapping without warrants.

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Surveillance Protest Group Now Tops Obama Website

Ari Melber | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mybo, Obama FISA, Barack Obama, Blog, Networked Activism, Netroots, Surveillance, Spying, Fisa, Politics News

In many Democratic presidential campaigns, this is precisely the time when the base is ignored. Obama's base activists, however, are still getting heard.

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Kanye West, Angry Again

Jake Goldman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Festival, Music, Kanye West, Blog, Bonnaroo, Entertainment News

Kanye West has written one of the best humor pieces I've read in quite some time., and he doesn't even know he wrote it: (via his blog) ...this Bonna...

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