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Blogger's First Amendment Rights Threatened by NJ Law Firm

Chris Rodda | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Debt Collectors, Pressler & Pressler, New Jersey, Scott Mills, Personal Debt, Freedom of Speech, First Amendment, Freedom of the Press, Bloggers, Business News
Chris Rodda

I wonder how much thought these people were giving to the people they make their money off of. People like the 90-year-old woman who was threatened with jail for failing to return an Information Subpoena,

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Philip Rizk, Gaza Activist, Freed In Cairo

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Philip Rizk, Egypt, Activist, Bloggers, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Gaza Conflict, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Gaza Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Middle East, World News

CAIRO — Egypt released a German-Egyptian blogger arrested after protesting against the Gaza offensive but jailed three other pro-Palestinian act...

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A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Newspapers, Bloggers, Amazon Kindle, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, Amazon, Old Media, Television, Kindle, Old Media Death Watch, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Technology, World Wide Web, Myspace, Blogging, Amazon.com Kindle, Magazines, Citizen Journalists, Steve Jobs, Napster, Paypal, Old Media vs. New Media, Jeff Bezos, Citizen Journalism, Aspen Institute, Websites, Death of Newspapers, Apple iTunes, Amazon.com, Itunes, New York Times, Videos, Media News
Walter Isaacson

I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.

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How the Huffington Post Helped Save a Life

Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 02.28.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Journalists, Newspapers, Turkey, Sabri Bogday, Citizen Journalism, Bloggers, Prisoners, Computers, Web, Websites, United States, Journalism, Internet, Istanbul Turkey, Istanbul, Religion, Saudi Arabia, New Media, Los Angeles Times, Turkish Coalition of America, Huffington Post, Blogging, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Matthew and Peter Slutsky

In March 2008, I asked readers of HuffPost to reach out to reporters and bloggers to help tell the story of Turk Sabri Bogday, who at the time faced unjust execution in Saudi Arabia.

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Chris Matthews: Blogs Don't Count

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 02.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Blogs, Media, Journalism, Bloggers, Blogging, Chris Matthews, Chris Matthews Bloggers, Media News
Allison Kilkenny

Chris Matthews enlightened us all by explaining Thursday that journalists can't be bloggers, and bloggers contribute nothing to journalism. After all, Chris Matthews knows real journalism.

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Krugman on Obama and 'You 2.0'

Juliette Powell | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Global Economy, Economic Policy, Obama Appointments, Bloggers, Juliette Powell, Jacques Chirac, Paul Krugman on Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Paul Krugman, Obama, Facebook, Culture, Political Blogging, Blogger Community, Barack Obama, Online Community Obama, Checks and Balances, Obama and the Internet, You 2.0, Politics News
Juliette Powell

There have been some proposed appointments in the national security area, or at least floated appointments, that have essentially been torpedoed because the online community said, "No."

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Audience Atomization Overcome: Why the Net Erodes the Authority of the Press

Jay Rosen | Posted 04.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Meet the Press, Single Payer, Press, Atrios, Big Media, Bloggers, Media News
Jay Rosen

Sometimes the people the press thinks of as deviant types are closer to the sphere of consensus than the journalists who are classifying those same people as "fringe."

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"Best Job In The World" Demand Crashes Website

Reuters | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

Read More: Great Barrier Reef, Joblessness, Australia, Bloggers, Blogging, World News

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The chance to be the caretaker of a tiny tropical island in Australia has sparked so much interest around the world that a rush of ...

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Those Douchebags From Two Months Ago

August J. Pollak | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Joe the Plumber, Pajamas Media, 2008 Election, Bloggers, Sarah Palin, Politics News
August J. Pollak

...Where are they now? To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....

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Battling Media Bias

Stefan Deeran | Posted 01.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Spinspotter Media Bias, The Exception Magazine, Media, Media Bias, Spinspotter, Bloggers, Political Bloggers, Matthew Gentzkow, Political Bias, Media Spin, Financial Crisis, Left Wing Media Bias, Jesse Shapiro, Media News
Stefan Deeran

A better way to improve our public discourse is to create forums where people with different biases and views actually have a reason to interact with each other.

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Rebutting the Skeptics: Digital Media Is America's Ally

Jared Cohen | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Policy Digital Media, Civil Liberties, Al-Qaeda, Bloggers, Activists Digital Media, Facebook, Online Organizing, Foreign Policy, Extremists Digital Media, Digital Media, Digital Media Empowerment, Fouad Al-Farhan, Bloggers Arrested, Mumbai Attacks Digital Media, Technology, Blogging, Dorm Room Diplomacy, World News
Jared Cohen

Over the past year we have seen digital media empower populations around the world in unprecedented ways, but there are skeptics who don't buy into this trend as a force for social good.

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The Permanent Campaign Has No Borders

David Hoffman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Al-Jazeera, Information and Freedom, Grassroots Activism, Bloggers, Grassroots Democracy, Information and Democracy, Obama Administration, Media, Grassroots Media, Democratization, Obama Media, Obama Campaign, Obama Technology, Barack Obama Media, Permanent Campaign, Access to Media, Media Freedom, Barack Obama Grassroots, Bush Democratization, Us Foriegn Relations, Barack Obama, Post-wwII Us Foreign Policy, Media News
David Hoffman

Instead of pre-packaged messages broadcast overseas, building the capacity of local media and investigative reporters promotes transparency and creates a culture of democratic activism.

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Obama's Press Policy: Is Muckraking the New Shoe-Throwing?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Man Throws Shoes at Bush, New Media, Jay Rosen, Time Magazine, Bloggers, Barack Obama, White House Press Corps, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Hey, keep your shoes on! Just because Obama's in office, that doesn't mean journalism is going to be okay! Is the media business model still collapsin...

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Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless

Rob Kall | Posted 01.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Man Throws Shoes at Bush, The Rachel Maddow Show, Thom Hartmann, Bloggers, Satire, George W. Bush, Politics News
Rob Kall

The security organization took a preemptive position, requiring that all bloggers and journalists would be required to remove their shoes before entering secure zones.

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Cuba Cracks Down On Bloggers

Mother Jones | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Generacion Y Cuba, Bloggers, Cuba Censorship, Free Speech, Generation Y Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, Crackdown on Bloggers, Censorship, Havana, Cuba, Generation Y, World News

Havana-based writer Yoani Sanchez was recently named by Time magazine as one the 100 most influential people in the world, and she won the 2008 Ortega...

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The Billioniare Bloggers

Forbes | Devon Pendleton | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Internet, Sec, T. Boone Pickens, Mark Cuban, Bloggers, Business News, Forbes, Blogging, Business News

When the SEC charged Internet billionaire Mark Cuban with insider trading on Nov. 17, the brash mogul's followers knew where to look for the best comm...

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Confessions of a Self-Hating Blogger

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Transition, Keith Olbermann, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Tim Geithner, Bloggers, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Media News
Michael B. Laskoff

The problem, however, is not with the blog itself, which is just a medium. No, the issue is the rough draft culture that it promotes, along with the disdain for the concept of a finished draft.

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Exclusive: Christiane Amanpour On Her Genocide Documentary, International Reporting and New Media

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Christiane Amanpour Documentary, International News, Cambodia Genocide, Coverage of International News, Bloggers, Media Coverage, Darfur, Rwanda Genocide, Christiane Amanpour, Genocide, Bosnia Genocide, Scream Bloody Murder, New Media, Cambodia, Christiane Amanpour Genocide, World News
Hanna Ingber Win

CNN's Christiane Amanpour has spent much of the last 20 years covering conflicts in every corner of the world. Her new documentary, Scream Bloody Murd...

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Report: Online Journalists Now Most Jailed

Committee to Protect Journalists | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Internet, Freedom of Speech, Bloggers Jailed, Suppression of Online Journalists, Bloggers, Online Journalists, Media, Censorship, Committee to Protect Journalists, Civil Rights, World News

New York, December 4, 2008--Reflecting the rising influence of online reporting and commentary, more Internet journalists are jailed worldwide today t...

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WATCH: How Iranian Bloggers Are Taking On Their Government

GlobalVoices | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Opposition in Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet Access, Freedom of Speech, Iranian Opposition, Suppression in Iran, Bloggers, New Media, Iran, Iran a Nation of Bloggers, Censorship, Bloggers in Iran, Video, World News

Motion design students at the Vancouver Film School created a powerful film about how young Iranians use blogs to voice their opposition to their gove...

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Bloggers Provide Raw View Of Mumbai Massacre

AP | SAM DOLNICK | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai Attacks Bloggers, Bloggers, Bloggers Mumbai Terror Attacks, Media News

NEW DELHI — When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to t...

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Roger Ebert Sounds the Bell for the Death of Print Film Criticism (and Entertainment Journalism) - and the World Weeps with Him

Scott Mendelson | Posted 12.30.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Mumbai Attacks, Msnbc, Entertainment, Roger Ebert, Bloggers, Journalism, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

It is a shame that the tradition of the newspaper film critic, the very thing that aspired me to first love movies, has so quickly been destroyed in a little under two years.

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Jason Linkins

Conservative Blogosphere Eyes Opportunities As Outsiders

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.19.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Right Wing Bloggers, Bloggers, Media News

Being out of power may be bad for the Republican Party, but for a nation of conservative bloggers, the chance to do a little authentic rabblerousing c...

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Jason Linkins

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Sticks Up For Bloggers, Pajamas

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Cheetos, Rachel Maddow, Bloggers, Pajamas, Sarah Palin, Media News

What the heck is wrong with wearing pajamas? Especially footie pajamas! Especially footie pajamas that you buy yourself, with your own money, instead of the RNC's! This is Rachel Maddow's cause.

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Timothy Ferriss vs. Gary Vaynerchuk

Tim Ferriss | Posted 12.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Problogger.net, Gary Vaynerchuk, Timothy Ferriss, Technology, Darren Rowse, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Bloggers, Digital Age, Blogging, Media News
Tim Ferriss

Is it better to be socially connected online but spend the majority of your life on it, or is it better to be a digital recluse and perhaps suffer the consequences? I would be an example of the latter.

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