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Hockey "In These Times"

B.D. Gallof | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports

Read More: Puck Daddy, Newspapers, Hockey Independent, Eric Mcerlain, Cablevision, Espn, Bloggers, Tsn, Ted Leonsis, Hockey, Ny Islanders, Sbnation, Hockeybuzz, Cbc, Eklund, Bob Dylan, Newsday, Nhl, Rumors, Chris Botta, Washington Capitals, Blogging, Sports News

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.

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Call in Tonight for Veterans

Joe Trippi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact

Read More: Text to Give, Vets, John Hinderaker, America, Bloggers, Conference Call, Eleven Eleven, Campaign, Veterans Day, Ruth Stonesifer, Veterans, Impact News

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

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Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Bloggers-in-Danger, Bloggers, Internet Censorship, China Censorship, Censorship, Civil Rights, Blogging, Chinese Censorship, Bloggers in Danger, Threatened Voices, World News

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...

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Treasury Officials Meet With Financial Bloggers

Michael J. Panzner | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Treasury Department, Barack Obama, Bloggers, Economy, Economic Crisis, Business News

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.

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

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogosphere, Arab Media, Bloggers, Icann, Knight Foundation, English, Domain Names, Global Voices, Chinese, America First, Globalization, Official Language, Technology News

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.

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25 Bloggers You Wish You Were Reading

Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Bloggers, Roy Sekoff, Matt Drudge, Josh Marshall, Arianna Huffington, Danny Shea, Robert Quigley, Mediaite, Ryan Tate, Hot Air, Gawker Media, Top Blogger List, Key Bloggers, Kanye West, Top Bloggers List, The Huffington Post, Need to Know Bloggers, Scott Lamb, Nick Denton, Joe Coscarelli, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Influential Bloggers, Michelle Malkin, Top 25 Bloggers, John Cook, Tom Scocca, Copyranter, The Hidden Hand, Mark Copyranter, Amanda Dobbins, AllahPundit, Rihanna, Emily Gould, 25 Most Underrated Bloggers, Abram Sauer, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, Fred Mwangaguhunga, Jack Shepherd, Best Bloggers List, Media Take Out, Top Bloggers, Gawker, Part 1, Peggy Wang, Best Bloggers, Allah Pundit, 25 Need to Know Bloggers, Buzzfeed, Media News

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.

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Guantanamo Bay: College Division

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Butler University, Internet, First Amendment, College, Bloggers, Bushies, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Jess Zimmerman, Virginia Tech Massacre, Virginia Tech, Censorship, Lawsuit, Dick Cheney, Media News

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.

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All Hyped Up With Nowhere To Go

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Energy Drinks, Depression, Twitter, Antidepressants, Social Networking, Bloggers, Starbucks, Media, Media News, Facebook, Texting, Media News

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.

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The Curious Case of Meghan McCain

Fernanda Diaz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meghan McCain, The Nation, John McCain, The Daily Beast, Twittering, Twitter, Internet, Bloggers, Politics News

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

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Release 0.9: We're All Fact-Checkers Now

Esther Dyson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media

Read More: FTC Bloggers, Fact Check, Citizen Journalism, Online Journalism, Bloggers, Media News

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?

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Technorati Releases "State Of The Blogosphere" Report

Technorati | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogophere, Professional Bloggers, Twitter, Micro-Blogging, Bloggers, Technology, Arianna Huffington, State of the Blogosphere, Technorati, Media News

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 ...

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

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: College Students, Butler University, Alexander Hamilton, First Amendment, Crime, Bloggers, Jess Zimmerman, Virginia Tech, Barack Obama, Lawsuit, Freedom of Speech, University, Internet, College, Virginia Tech Massacre, Censorship, Benjamin Franklin, Media News

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.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Advertising, Ftc, Bloggers, FTC Guidelines, Federal Trade Commission, Blogging, Media News

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...

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Do Book Bloggers Make a Difference?

Beth Kephart | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

Read More: Authors, Blogs, Bloggers, Book Bloggers, Books, Book Blogs, FTC Guidelines, Ftc, Blogging, Books News

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.

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

AP | ANNE-MARIE GARCIA | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, US-Cuba Relations, Bloggers, Yoani-Sanchez, Generation Y Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, US-Cuba Policy, Generation Y, Cuba, Bloggers in Danger, Yoani Sanchez Cuban Blogger, Blog Cuba Yoani Sanchez EspañOl, World News

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...

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My Friend Christina and the Downfall of Newspapers

James Boyce | Posted 10.07.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Downfall of Newspapers, The Washington Times, Bloggers, Talking Points Memo, Traditional News Reporting, Blogging, Online Journalism, Inside DC, Media News

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.

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Daniel Suelo: Blogger Has Gone 9 Years Without Spending Money

treehugger.com | Brian Merchant | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Library, Cave, Green News, Spending, Bloggers, Sustainability, Daniel Suelo, Green Living, Blogging, Carbon Footprint, Eco-Stunt, Green News

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 ...

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Five Things That Annoy Me About Your Blog

Jessica Olien | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Absurd Book Deals, Opinion, Lolcats, Bloggers, Blogs, Reporting, Technology, Journalism, Media News

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

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

Huffington Post | Jonathan Fields | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Pitch, Publishers, Publicity, Bloggers, Books, Books News

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...

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

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

Read More: Ftc, FTC Bloggers, FTC Blogger Fine, FTC Payments, FTC Disclosure, Bloggers, Blogs, Blogger, Social Media, Federal Trade Commission, Blogger Review, Blogger Disclosure, Ftc Guidelines Bloggers, Blogger Must Report Review Payments, Ftc Bloggers Disclose Payments, Technology News

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

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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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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News

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.

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Lots of Content Is Good for Democracy

Charles Warner | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Flickr, Twitter, Bloggers, The Lost Art of Political Argument, Chris Lasch, The Lost Symbol, Youtube, Democracy, Facebook, Journalism, Dan Brown, Media News

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."

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DonorsChoose.org Targets High-Poverty Classrooms

Posted 09.25.2009 | Impact

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Donors Choose, Bill Gates, Military Families, Bloggers, Tennessee, Impact News

Online hub DonorsChoose.org filters your donations to American schools in need. The "choose" part means you get to select which school or program your...

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Ford Hosts a Taurus Tweetup in Denver

Ef Rodriguez | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Twitter, Ford, Tweetups, Denver, Auto Industry, Social Media, Internet, Advertising, Bloggers, Fuel Efficiency, Marketing, New Media, Web 2.0, Ford Taurus, Denver News

Though they may not get the whole fuel efficiency thing, Ford gets social media.

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