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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 ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
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.
Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
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.
Charles Warner | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
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."
Posted 11.25.2009 | Impact
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...
Ef Rodriguez | Posted 11.23.2009 | Denver
Though they may not get the whole fuel efficiency thing, Ford gets social media.
Libby Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
Please, bloggers, just because you can say something, just because it makes you feel a part of an online "family or "clique" doesn't mean you should say it.
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
If readers are intent on being deceived by one kind of magician or another I'd suggest they put their faith in the imaginary lottery folks or the cash-strapped Nigerians. They harm only the gullible.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media
The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.
Edward Murray | Posted 11.10.2009 | Comedy
Average Conservative Blogger responds to readers' questions.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Media
Time's Joe Klein levelled a significant and ugly charge: that he had "never seen [Greenwald] write a positive sentence about the US military." But Greenwald has.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media
Klein is upset about all the mean things being said about him on the Internet, and the litigation of his hurt feelings is somehow considered news by Time, for reasons passing understanding.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home
The race card is back on the nation's table with a vengeance. And the aim is to trump Obama.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
When you really look at the traffic the average site generates, you see the Web is actually a big lonely place. And without real traffic, you're just preaching in an echo chamber.
Anne Hill | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media
I think the secret fear of those who disparage bloggers is not that they are slovenly or erratic, but that they are tapping into realms of consciousness deeper than the rational mind has access to.
Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media
The problem with Gawker blogging about a Washington Post story isn't bloggers "stealing" stories. The problem is measuring the value of content.
Dana Kennedy | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media
I'm impressed with Richard Pyle for sticking with the same company for 49 years, for having such a sharp memory, and for being the cliched Irascible, Gruff Newsman that future cub reporters will never meet.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 07.21.2009 | Comedy
"Yesterday I told my mom that I was going to meet Obama and she was like, 'Yeah, tell me another one,'" said one blogger. "I think she thought I was just going to see Harry Potter again."
GlobalPost | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
By Fulvio Paolocci | GlobalPost ROME -- This week in Rome, bloggers and activists wore gags to protest a proposed law that could impose heavy fine...
Charles Warner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media
The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media
As brilliant of a strategy as hiring legions of unpaid writers is, there is a catch. Eventually, the only writers that will write for free are writers that can afford to write for free.
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 08.15.2009 | World
The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.14.2009 | Media
Brandishing dogged reporting skills and wonderfully insightful, entertaining writing, Alaska bloggers turned the 49th state (and a very, very red one, at that) into a hotbed for plugged-in citizen journalism.
Huffington Post | Jonathan Fields | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books