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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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Why It's Wrong to Pay for Blog Coverage

Andy Sernovitz | Posted 05.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Paid Bloggers, Advertisement, Paid Blogging, Paid Coverage, Blog Ethics, Bloggers, Media News
Andy Sernovitz

There's no reason to go here. It only takes one missed disclosure statement to ruin your reputation forever. Feel free to take advertising, but when you sell your editorial, you are forever tainted.

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Should Newspapers Charge for Online Content? To Answer This Question, You Have to Consult a Lawyer

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Politics News, Intellectual Property, Newspapers, Copyright, Bloggers, Content-Aggregators, Death of Newspapers, Media News, Online Newspapers, Blogging, Media News
Peter Scheer

Information wants to be free, but the creators of information also need to eat. Which of these interests ultimately prevails, although partly a business issue, depends fundamentally on legal considerations.

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"Whose Blog Is It, Anyway?"

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Living, Media, Entertainment, Blogs, Blogosphere, Bloggers, Blogging, Media News
Earl Pomerantz

On its most basic level, a blog is simply a platform where guys, or the female version of guys, can freely and fearlessly express whatever they want.

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How Social Media Today and its Online Communities Reinforce Blogging

Ari Herzog | Posted 05.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Robin Carey, Jerry Bowles, Sales, Social Media Today, Bloggers, Venture Capital, Social Media Marketing, Online Community, Social Media, Enterprise, Governing, Marketing, Sustainability, Pr, Blogging, Business News
Ari Herzog

Disclosure: In late February, I was recruited by Robin Carey and Jerry Bowles, co-founders of Social Media Today and joined their team as a community ...

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Maddie Spohr: Tragic Death Inspires Web Community

Michelle Lamar | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogs, Internet, Bloggers, Motherhood, Parenting, Moms, Babies, Blogging, Twitter, Matt Lauer, Today Show, Demi Moore, Jimmy Fallon, Celebrities, Health, Maddie Sphor, Living News
Michelle Lamar

Since Maddie passed, almost $24,000 has been raised for the March of Dimes.

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Liberal Bloggers To White House: We're Not Stenographers

firedoglake.com | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ben Smith, White House Bloggers, Rahm Emanuel, Bloggers, White House Message, Rahm Emanuel Bloggers, Politics News

Ben Smith has an article on Common Purpose, one of the many groups Rahm Emanuel has set up to coordinate messaging among liberal interest groups. The...

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Yoani Sanchez, HuffPost Blogger In Cuba, Accused Of 'Provocation'

Reuters | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Castro, Raul Castro, Yoani Sanchez, US-Cuba Policy, Cuban Americans, Cuba, Bloggers in Danger, Advocacy, World News

Cuban authorities accused blogger Yoani Sanchez on Wednesday of staging a "provocation against the Cuban Revolution" after she and others spoke public...

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Live from the G-20 Summit: Another Blogger Breakthrough

Sam Graham-Felsen | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Gordon Brown, Sam Graham Felsen, Bloggers, Sam Stein, Richard Murphy, g20voice, G-20, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, Media News
Sam Graham-Felsen

Today, at the G-20 Summit in London, blogger Richard Murphy was called on by Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- another historic breakthrough for the blogosphere.

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"Should I h8 AZNs?": When Satire Fails, It's Racist

Disgrasian | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Music Blogs, Bloggers, Racist, Economic Crisis, Asian Americans, Hipsters, Race, Hipster Runoff, Blogs, Asian-Americans, Asians, Economic Recession, Satire, Racism, Racism and Satire, Racial Stereotypes, Hipster Kids, China Economy, China, Humor and Satire, Asia, Media News
Disgrasian

Unfortunately, "Should I h8 AZNs?" is not satire. It highlights a very real cultural anxiety and its attendant racist backlash without taking it to task in any substantive way.

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Fast Times at Facebook High

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media, Twitter, Facebook, Social Networking, Blogging, Bloggers, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

Sunday's NY Times piece reminds us that in this ever connected and status obsessed online ecosystem, you have to constantly be vigilant about your connections and information.

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Iranian Christian Bloggers Missing: FCNN

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: Iran Blogger Dies, Iran Blogosphere, Blogs, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Iran Blogger Jail, Iran, Iranian Christian, Blogging, Iran Blogger, Advocacy, Bloggers in Danger, World News

At the same time that the Iranian government is mulling capital punishment for "offensive bloggers, reports have emerged that two Iranian Christian bl...

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Why Does Obama's Teleprompter Hate America?

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Brett Baier, John McCain, Barack-Obama-Teleprompter, Bloggers, Obama Press Conference, Sarah Palin, David Gregory, Cable News, Michelle Malkin, Fox News Channel, Ron Fournier, Palin Teleprompter, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Without a doubt, many of the attacks from the far-right against President Obama have amounted to nothing more than the political equivalent of speaking in tongues.

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Iran Mulls Death Penalty For Offensive Bloggers (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

Read More: Executions, Iranian Blogger, Capital Punishment, Execution, Iranian Bloggers, Iran Death Penalty, Saudi Arabia, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Iran, Iranian Blogger Arrested, China, Blogging, Advocacy, Video, Bloggers in Danger, Iran Bloggers, Death Penalty in Iran 2009, Death Video, World News

A new Al Jazeera English video reports that Iran is considering a law that would make "offensive" blogging punishable by death. The video notes an Am...

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How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger

Paul Dailing | Posted 04.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Internet, Newspapers, Paul Gillin, Old Media vs. New Media, Jay Rosen, Bloggers, Old Media Death Watch, Online, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Outing, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Media, Clay Shirky, Newspaper Industry, Comedy News
Paul Dailing

The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win.

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In Memory of Omidreza Mirsayafi

Jillian York | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Omidreza, Omidreza-Mirsayaf, Prison, Bloggers, Omidreza Mirsayafi, Iran, Iran Bloggers, Blogging, World News
Jillian York

Omidreza was you. He was me. He simply was born in the wrong country, at the wrong time, and chose the wrong day to write about something he believed in.

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Norris's Nutty War on President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Norris, Rightwing, Conservatives, Barack Obama, Bloggers, Patriot Groups, Hate Groups, Fringe Groups, Websites, ihateobama.com, worlddailynet.com, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The long history of hate violence in America further is more than enough to raise the antenna on the danger of violence against prominent political figures.

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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
Spencer Green

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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It's Not Your Father's News

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, New York Times, Newspapers, Web Journalism, Bloggers, Newspaper Industry, Newser, Media News
Michael Wolff

New York Times Columnist David Carr says "Google, The Huffington Post, and Newser have built their audiences and brands on other people's labors."

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Obama, Lieberman, and "The Hug": Color It Purple

Lanny Davis | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Msnbc, Obama Hug, Bi-Partisanship, Senator McCain, President Obama, Rachel Maddow, Bloggers, Man Hug, Joe Lieberman, Politics of Hugging, Jane Hamsher, Politics News
Lanny Davis

We need pressures from the left in our party to remind us why we chose to be Democrats rather than Republicans.

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The Most Important Story of the Year

Mike Stark | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Accountability Now PAC, Anp, Blogging PAC, Bloggers, Politics News
Mike Stark

With the formation of Accountability Now PAC, progressives have developed a tool that provides the ability to set standards and, in some cases, exact accountability when our elected leaders fall short.

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Newsrooms Must Die, Long Live Newsrooms!

Sally Duros | Posted 03.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Social Enterprise, l3c, Terry Mazany, Chicago Journalism Townhall, Ken Davis, Journalism, The Chicago Community Trust, Low Profit Limited Liability Company, Newspapers, Bloggers, Bernard Lunzer, Chicago Tribune, Democracy, Main Stream Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Heather Steans, Newspaper Industry, The-Newspaper-Guild, Future of Journalism, Death of Newspapers, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Sally Duros

Information has risen to the level of being a most pressing community need in our current democracy. More than ever, a newsroom must be a mission-based place.

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