Bloggers

Crowdsourcing Content and Demand: Andrew Sullivan's "View From Your Window" Book

Eileen Gittins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Books


Eileen Gittins

For three years, Sullivan had been inviting his blog community to upload pictures of the view from their windows. He wanted to compile a selection of these images into a book that captures the breadth and width of the web.

Book Bloggers Rock!

Fauzia Burke | Posted 11.17.2009 | Books


Fauzia Burke

With newspapers and magazines folding left and right, book coverage has been severely impacted. Luckily, book bloggers have come to the rescue, often without the credit they deserve.

Hockey "In These Times"

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports


B.D. Gallof

Old, new, it's not a battle of two sides anymore. Instead, it's a crowded pool where any fan can glean info, rumor, opinion, humor or just about anything else with a mouse click via the Web or Twitter.

Call in Tonight for Veterans

Joe Trippi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact


Joe Trippi

The objective the Eleven Eleven Campaign is simple: to get 11 million Americans to donate $11 to support America's Veterans.

Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World


Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month...

Treasury Officials Meet With Financial Bloggers

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business


Michael J. Panzner

The meeting, admittedly, left most of us feeling like we had more questions after it ended than when it started -- I did learn a few things at the gathering that I found particularly interesting.

Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology


Susan Moeller

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.

25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media


Rachel Sklar

Remember when the web used to be about following links to someone's cool blogspot site? Now it's all about the world of ultra-ultra-niche or the secret gems that the big sites troll daily for their unique takes.

Guantanamo Bay: College Division

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media


Stu Kreisman

Is a school entitled to discipline a student? Of course -- if a crime is committed. But let's get real here. We're talking about freedom of speech on the Internet.

All Hyped Up With Nowhere To Go

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


B. Jeffrey Madoff

We all run out of time, and there is not really a way to save it. But one of the major ways we seem to be trying to save time is in how we communicate with each other.

The Curious Case of Meghan McCain

Fernanda Diaz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


Fernanda Diaz

When her father's campaign ended, her own kept going in an ambiguous and overexposed direction.

Release 0.9: We're All Fact-Checkers Now

Esther Dyson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media


Esther Dyson

Spin, propaganda, and censorship persist in journalism, but with one big difference: Almost anyone can now operate as a reporter. How can we ensure that these self-nominated reporters respect the truth?

Technorati Releases "State Of The Blogosphere" Report

Technorati | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Welcome to Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2009 report. Since 2004, our annual study has followed the growth and trends in the blogosphere. For ...

Student Blogger Shut Down and Sued by Butler University Over Free Speech

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media


Stu Kreisman

Jess Zimmerman is a junior at Butler University. Last year he wrote criticisms of Butler's administration in an anonymous blog. We now have the first case of a university suing a student over online free speech.

Jason Linkins

FTC Official: "We Are Not Going To Be Patrolling The Blogosphere

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


As you may have heard, twenty-first century advertisers have long been trying to persuade us to buy their products. But until very recently, they wer...

Do Book Bloggers Make a Difference?

Beth Kephart | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books


Beth Kephart

Let's stop asking if book bloggers can make a difference. Let's start figuring out how they can operate -- with integrity and commitment, without fear of being fined -- in the coming era of new FTC guidelines.

Yoani Sanchez, HuffPost Blogger In Cuba, Not Allowed To Accept Columbia Award

AP | ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Posted 10.13.2009 | World


HAVANA A Cuban blogger who has become an international sensation for offering frank criticism of her country's communist system said she was denied go...

My Friend Christina and the Downfall of Newspapers

James Boyce | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media


James Boyce

So now, here's a real journalist, with real credentials, who had the audacity to go into the real Iowa last year, now writing for a real ... online news site.

Daniel Suelo: Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


Daniel Suelo wasn't poor, a victim of bad luck, mentally ill, or even uneducated. He just decided that he wanted to have nothing to do with money. So ...

Five Things That Annoy Me About Your Blog

Jessica Olien | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media


Jessica Olien

LOLcatz has already been made into a book and it's likely that your bad idea makes it look like Animal Farm.

Book Pitch Gone Bad: How to Piss Off Those You Most Want to Befriend

Huffington Post | Jonathan Fields | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books


Not long ago, I got the following pitch letter from a book publicist: Awake At The Wheel Mr. Jonathan Fields Self Help For Immediate Release [f...

FTC: Bloggers Must Disclose Payments For Reviews -- Or Pay Big

AP | DEBORAH YAO and EMILY FREDRIX | Posted 10.05.2009 | Technology


The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for ...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media


Chris Weigant

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.

A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living


Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

Lots of Content Is Good for Democracy

Charles Warner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

The Internet's explosive growth has led to such a proliferation of content that it is now virtually infinite. To say that "content is king" in today's world is like saying "a grain of sand is precious."