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A Great Debate About Ideas

Tim Berry | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Ellen Goodman, Seth Godin, Twitter, Journalism, Free, Mark Cuban, Bloggers, Books, Malcolm Gladwell, Chris Anderson, Media News
Tim Berry

In his book Free, Chris Anderson gathered the wood and laid out the fire by saying news, information, music, and films are going to be free.

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Iran's Uprising: Food for Thought

Jamal Dajani | Posted 07.27.2009 | World

Read More: Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Ali Abdallah Saleh, Human Rights, Basij, Egypt, Bloggers, Saudi Arabia, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Iran, Hosni Mubarak, Qatar, Israel, Iranian Election, World News
Jamal Dajani

Ever since the Iranian revolution stunned the world in 1979, the Arab regimes and their allies in the West have been obsessing over Iran's "exporting of the revolution."

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CIA Ex-Chief Hayden Blames Bloggers, Congressional Aides for Damage Caused by His Policies

Frank Naif | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Cheetos, CIA Interrogations, Michael Hayden, Bloggers, Homeland Security, Financial Crisis, CIA Torture, Philip Mudd, Gen. Michael Hayden, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

Senior intelligence community hacks like Michael Hayden and his peers are responsible for scuttling senior CIA analyst Phil Mudd's nomination to the senior DHS intelligence post.

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Jason Linkins

Ed Whelan, 'Outer' Of Pseudonymous Law Blogger, Apologizes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Pseudonymous Blogger, National Review, Ed Whelan, Bloggers, Slapfights, Blogging, Anonymous Blogger, Media News

This whole big plate of hot mess went down this weekend between these two legal affairs bloggers, and the whole thing ended with the masked blogger getting unmasked, which is a violation of the "bro code" or something.

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Obama and the Left, Part 432 (And Counting)

Mike Lux | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama and the Left, Left Wing, Left Wing Bloggers, Activist, Activism, Bloggers, Jane Hamsher, Progressives, Politics News
Mike Lux

We need progressive groups in regular in-depth policy meetings with the administration, even if that means they have to soft-pedal their criticisms some of the time to keep that access.

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New Media Moguls: Trust and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Ari Melber | Posted 07.04.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Twitter Media, Twitter Politics, Twitter, Gawker, Bloggers, Craigslist, Media News
Ari Melber

Nick Denton made Twitter sound like a competitive edge, noting that smart young journalists on his staff have swapped RSS feeds for Twitter to see stories and trends moving in real time.

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Fox Nation: The Seedy Underbelly of Rupert Murdoch's Evil Empire?

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, Right Wing DHS Report, News Corp, Markos Moulitsas, Bloggers, Barack Obama, Daily Kos, Department of Homeland Security, Obama Birth Certificate, Freddie Mac, Fox Nation, Sonia Sotomayor, Rupert Murdoch, Dhs Report, Fox News, Al Gore, Huffington Post, Tea Party, Bill O'Reilly, Blogging, Fox News Channel, Gay Marriage, Media News
Karl Frisch

In the two months that followed the website's launch, The Fox Nation has displayed an uncanny ability to mislead readers, twist the truth, spread wild conspiracy theories, and misrepresent the reporting of legitimate journalists.

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Pakistani Bloggers Unite, Call For Action

Mona Sarika | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Mona Sarika, Pak, Swat, Pakistan, Bloggers, Dir, Idp, Pakistan Refugees, Bloggers Unite, Un, Internally Displaced People, Buner, World News
Mona Sarika

By communicating the problems to the local and international community, bloggers are hoping to mobilize financial and monetary support for refugees.

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How Huff Post Readers Can Help Cuban Bloggers

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Human Rights, Cuba, Freedom of Information, Bloggers, Blogosphere, Wordpress, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Suggestions for how you can help the alternative blogosphere in Cuba and organize without intermediaries.

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'Kremlin's School Of Bloggers' Marks Russia's Embrace Of Web 2.0

Foreign Policy | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Kremlin's School of Bloggers, Russian Bloggers, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Kremlin, Russia Web 2.0, Vladimir Putin, The Kremlin, Medvedev Blog, Web 2.0, Dmitry Medvedev, Advocacy, World News

One of the Kremlin's pet new media projects has been a site called liberty.ru. It's been set up under the auspices of the Fund for Effective Politics,...

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Think Again: Blogosphere to Mainstream Media: Get Off the Bus (and Walk a Mile in Our Shoes)

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Murray Waas, Bob Woodward, Jay Rosen, Tpm, Bloggers, Sarah Palin, Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Eric Boehlert, Washington Post, Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, Alaska, 2008 Election, Greg Sargent, Media News
Eric Alterman

Dowd's accident is yet another sign of how traditional media outlets are increasingly (and to their credit) taking cues from the reporters and commentators that populate the blogosphere.

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Maria Amelia Lopez: "World's Oldest Blogger," 97, Dies In Spain

AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | World

Read More: Blogger, World's Oldest Blogger, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Celebrity Bloggers, Europe, amis95.blogspot.com, Maria Amelia Lopez, Advocacy, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain, World News

A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the "world's oldest blogger" and who gained a global following on the Internet, died today at the ag...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: May 19, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Ezra Klein, Video, Auto Tune the News, David Souter Retires, Copyright, Danger Mouse, Bloggers, Supreme Court, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Auto-Tune-the-News, Media News

The best work of Brian Joseph Burton, better known as DJ/produce par excellence Danger Mouse, is also best known for being illegal. Naturally, I refe...

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What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Blogging, Bloggers, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

I see this latest scandal as a cry for help from Dowd. She's trying to tell us, and her bosses at The New York Times, something very important.

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Obama Braces Self for Wrath of Pajama-Clad Blog Commenters

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Blogosphere, Andy Borowitz, Liberals, Rahm Emanuel, Jon and Kate Affair, Bloggers, Jon and Kate Gosselin, Hillary Clinton, Jon and Kate Plus 8, Barack Obama, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

The source said that the pajama-wearing chorus could grow louder this week "because most of them have already seen 'Star Trek' and they're back in front of their keyboards."

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Blogger And Aid Worker Remain Imprisoned In Iran Despite Saberi Release

New York Times | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Roxana Saberi Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bloggers, Silva Harotonian, Foreign Affairs, Roxana Saberi Released, Roxana Saberi, Hossein Derakhshan, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Roxana Saberi Release, Bloggers in Iran, Advocacy, Bloggers in Danger, World News

As supporters of the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi celebrate her release from Evin prison in Tehran, campaigns to free two other, less hig...

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1000 Iranian Bloggers Back Reformist Mousavi For President

Global Voices | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Mir Hossien Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, Iranian Bloggers, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Iran Presidential Election, Hossein Mousavi, Iran Press Freedom, Iran, Guardian Council, Foreign Bloggers, Mir Hossein Mousavi Website, Advocacy, Iran Election, World News

Supporters of two leading reformist presidential candidates, former prime minister Mir Hussein Mousavi and former parliament speaker, Mehdi Karroubi a...

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A Business Model for Journalism Where Writers Get Paid

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Pbs, H&R Block, Newspapers, Portfolio.com, Economy, Bloggers, The Huffington Post, Domino Magazine, Media, Recession, Blogs, Amazon.com, Internet, Portfolio Magazine, Corporations, Advertising, Rupert Murdoch, Marketing, New York Times, New Media, Branding, Media News, Blogging, Magazines, Media News
Michelle Haimoff

The only economically viable option for the future of journalism lies in the direct corporate sponsorship of content.

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Fiji Bloggers A "Threat To National Security": Military

Voice Of America | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Fijian Blogger, Fiji Blogger, Fiji Military, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Fijian Bloggers, Fiji Bloggers, Blogging, Anonymous Blogger, Advocacy, Fiji, Bloggers in Danger, World News

Fijians are increasingly turning to blogging to circumvent media censorship as the military government continues to impose restrictions on newspapers ...

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Self-Googling Enhanced by Blogging Regularly

Danny Groner | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Blogs, Blogosphere, The Huffington Post, Bloggers, Self-Googling, Content-Aggregators, Content Aggregators, Aggregated News, Embarassment, Aggregated-News, Huffington Post, Blogging, Media News
Danny Groner

Thanks to news aggregators that have picked up my recent HuffPost pieces, my dreadfully written college newspaper stories are now buried deep inside the annals of double-digit pages on Google returns.

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Waterboarding Leads to this Tortured Blog Post!

Dave Astor | Posted 05.23.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hank Greenberg, Taiwan, President Obama, Time Outs, Cia, Blog Posts, u.s. Foreign Policy, Bloggers, George W. Bush, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Israeli Lobby, Richard Nixon, Israel, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Ymca, Waterboarding, Jewish Baseball Players, Detroit Tigers, Torture, Guppy, Minnow, Comedy News
Dave Astor

When thinking about the Bush administration-sanctioned use of this brute force, I wondered how the torture guys decided on the 183 figure. Was it some kind of homage to Hank Greenberg driving in 183 runs in 1937?

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Perfect News Storm Causes Blogging Paralysis

Spencer Green | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Susan Boyle, President Obama, Craigslist, Carrie Prejean, News, Blogging, Bloggers, Comedy News
Spencer Green

An unusually high concentration of potential irony-laden and comment-worthy news items has caused many U.S. bloggers to clutch their heads in pain and temporarily put their keyboards aside to take a breath.

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Mark Penn "Cooks the Books" on Bloggers

Lane Hudson | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, American Politics, Mark Penn, Wall Street Journal, Bloggers, Media News
Lane Hudson

Mark Penn has commentary up at the Wall Street Journal. Good heavens. For 1250 words, it sure is an intellectually lazy piece of crap.

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Mark Penn: More Americans Earn Primary Income As Bloggers Than Firefighters Or Bartenders

Wall Street Journal | MARK PENN | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Paid Bloggers, Bloggers Make a Living, Blogger, Mark Penn on Bloggers, Bloggers, Bloggers for Hire, Mark Penn on Blogging, Blogger Career, Media News

In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primar...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 20, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Andrew Sullivan, Totture, Bloggers, Filibuster, Financial News, Eliot Spitzer, Jane Harman Wiretap, Jane Harman AIPAC, Jane Harman, Media Criticism, Budget Reconciliation, Blogging, Torture Memos, Media News

Imagine you had invited me to your home for some sort of potluck dinner, and I had promised to bring a freshly baked pie, only to show up with a pie p...

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