Blogosphere

Introducing a Blog Blog

Lindsay Hoffman | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Blogosphere, John McCain, The Blog Blog Project, Media and Politics, Stee Schmidt, The Princeton Review, Blogging and College, Political Activism, University of Delaware, Joe Biden, Blogging, David Plouffe, College News
Lindsay Hoffman

Blogs can serve as a great outlet for college students to voice their concerns and opinions in a mediated environment that is often saturated with viewpoints from established players.

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Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Linsanity, Blogosphere, Los Angeles Clippers, Yao Ming, Grantland, Internet Memes, Roger Ebert, Chinese Culture, Tebowmania, Asian Americans, Globalization, Deadspin, Jeremy Lin, Tim Tebow, New York Knicks, Culture News
Chi Tung

For every one of us eager to claim Lin in our racial draft, there's Lin himself, shrugging off the portentous hype because he's too busy making love to pressure to tangle with Asian American identity politics.

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Music Blogs React to Megaupload Seizure and Cyberlocker Lockdowns

Jason Sigal | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: mp3, Blogosphere, mp3s, Piracy, Copyright, Music Blogs, Pipa, Online Piracy, Music, Sopa, Video, Technology News
Jason Sigal

Even if they were just the new sleazy middleman in the distribution chain, millions of users had come to rely on Megaupload for very legitimate uses. Now their files are gone.

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The Joys of Blogging

Richard Schiffman | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Print Media, Blogosphere, Social Media, Media, Postmodern, Writing, Poetry, Blogging, Media News
Richard Schiffman

I am one of the print writers who was dragged to the internet kicking and screaming. Now, you won't hear a peep from me. What changed this squawking, blogger-mocking crow into a grinning little dove of the blogosphere?

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Blogging in Bombay: Miss Malini Builds a Business

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: MissMalini.Com, Blogosphere, India, Bollywood Stars, India Blogs, Bandana Tewari, Bollywood, Bloggers, Bollywood Movies, Mumbai, Vogue India, Mumbai Blogs, Bombay, India Bloggers, Rahul Khanna, Salman Khan, Elle India, Business of Blogging, Malini Agarwal, Miss Malini, Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood News, Blogging, Culture News
Marissa Bronfman

Malini Agarwal is India's most famous blogger; an independent, effervescent young woman who has turned a hobby into a business, desire into reality and a whole lot of passion into an enormously successful brand.

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Can't Miss Blogs For Post50s

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Blogs, Internet, Blogosphere, Twitter, TED Talks, Paula Span, Aarp, Advanced Style, Ari Seth Cohen, The Good Men Project, Blogging, Fifty News

Now that you've friended your kids on Facebook and joined the Twitter-revolution, it's time to up the ante and tackle the vast territory where "web" m...

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Amanda Terkel

Obama Staffer Bashes 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Ray Sandoval, Blogosphere, Ofa, Spandan Chakrabarti, Obama for America, Obama New Mexico, Elections 2012, Barack Obama Paul Krugman, Ray Sandoval New Mexico, Obama Blogosphere, Liberal Blogosphere, Paul Krugman, New Mexico Obama, New Mexico Obama for America, Ray Sandoval Obama, Barack Obama, Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama campaign's point person in New Mexico recently sent an email to supporters defending the president's position on the debt deal...

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The Lion's Den That Was Netroots Nation

Sally Kohn | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Andrew Breitbart, Progressive, Tone, Dan Pfeiffer, Netroots Nation, Bloggers, President Obama, Netroots, Right Online, Civility, Professional Left, Politics News
Sally Kohn

Should the "professional left" aggressively push the Obama administration to do more for working families? Hell yeah! Yet the tone of the questioning was infinitely more critical than friendly.

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The Need to Question Supposed Certain Sex 'Conditions'

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Female Sexual Disorder, Askmen, Add, Johnson & Johnson, Dsm-Iv, Attention Deficit Disorder, Sadd, Porn-Enabled Orgasm, Sex Expert, CNN Blogger, American Psychiatric Association, Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder, Porn, Ian Kerner, Sex, Healthy Living Body, Healthy Living News
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright

The latest to get called out on concocting a condition is CNN blogger and sex expert Ian Kerner, who elicited harsh reactions with Sexual Attention Deficit Disorder (SADD).

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Dead Moms = Better Dads?

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Single Moms, Sleepless in Seattle, Jersey Girl, Noncustodial Parent, Definitely-Maybe, Widowers, The Holiday, Clive Owen, The Pursuit of Happyness, Adoption, Three Men and a Baby, Single Mothers, Artificial Insemination, Single Parents, The-Boys-Are-Back-Movie, Love Actually, Single Fathers, Warren Farrell, Finding Nemo, Single Dads, Hollywood, Halle Berry, Padma Lakshmi, Matt Logelin, Oprah, Blogosphere, Blogger, Anna Nicole Smith, Divorce News
Vicki Larson

There was a lot of excitement two years ago when Clive Owen's movie The Boys Are Back, based on the true story of a single dad, was released. A lot of...

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We Party Patriots: Making Labor Work Online

Brandon Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Labor, Twitter, Unemployment, We Party Patriots, Labor Unions, Media News
Brandon Perkins

A new online media outlet called We Party Patriots aims to deliver news for the common good of the American worker. We spoke with the site's creator, who answered some questions about the launch.

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Top Travel Blogs to Discover

Michael Hodson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Best Travel Blogs, Internet, Travel Writing, Travel Blogging, Blogosphere, Twitter, Backpacking, Bloggers, Foodies, Travel News
Michael Hodson

These folks give you the excellent writing, photography, travel tips and insight you would find in magazines, but don't charge a dime for it online.

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Setting the Record Straight on "Fixing Foreclosure-Gate"

Jason Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robo-Signers, Third Way, Foreclosure, Housing Crisis, Ibanez Decision, Blogosphere, Mortgage Modifications, Response, Foreclosure Gate, Politics News
Jason Gold

I have respect for those who work hard every day in sorting out policy problems. Given these stakes, the debate should be a fair one that debates proposals on their merits, not on faulty assumptions.

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Women, Power, and Politics: What Are You Willing to Do?

Lily Blau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jezebel.com, Blogosphere, Politics, Women, Activism, Power, Feminism, 92nd Street Y, New York News
Lily Blau

What, exactly, are feminism's current goals? As Sarah Palin and the 2008 election, as well as the most recent one in 2010, proved, it isn't necessarily a question of just getting women into power.

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Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christina Taylor Green, President Obama, Speech, Rampage, Dorwan Stoddard, Birchers, Obama, Media, Arizona, Friday Talking Points, Phyllis Schneck, Television, Internet, Midotw, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, John Birch Society, Fringe, Dorothy Morris, Tragedy, Blogosphere, Daniel Hernandez, Gabe Zimmerman, Shooting, Heroes, Msm, John Roll, Faces of Hope, Blame, Patricia Maisch, Tucson, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Christina Green, Outrageous, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Gabrielle Giffords, Heroism, News, Rhetoric, Politics News
Chris Weigant

To honor the fallen this week, we're going to refrain from our usual heated political rhetoric here for a change. It's only fitting, really, after su...

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Not Another Year-End List!

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, John McCain, Percocet, Jet Blue, Sandy Newman, Haley Barbour, Christine O'donnell, Keith Olbermann, Demos, Wikileaks, Lawrence O'Donnell, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Voices for Preogress, Cable News, The American Prospect, u.s. Intelligence, Sharron Angle, Mediaite, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Why am I so obsessed with American politics in the first place? Does it really matter, or does interest in politics merely occupy the same part of the brain that used to handle starting line-ups, batting averages and RBI's?

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Writers' Prey and Getting Paid

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogosphere, Publishing, Writers, Publishing Industry, Full Fathom Five, Literary Publications, Changes in Publishing Industry, Magazines, New York Magazine, Media News
Liane Kupferberg Carter

I didn't become a writer solely to earn money. But getting paid validates a writer's professionalism. And remember, without their writers, publishers would have no product to peddle.

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Electoral Defeat Shows It's Time Progressive Bloggers Started Caring About the Labor Movement

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Efca, Working America, Afl Cio, Unions, Bloggers, Blogosphere, Cio, 2010 Elections, Howard Dean, Recession, The New York Times, Labor, Unemployment, Wage Cuts, Great Recession, Afl, Workers Rights, Politics News
Mike Elk

Perhaps after the recent election losses, bloggers will stop viewing elections as the key to challenging corporate power -- and instead focus on creating power in the workplace.

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Finding a Social Compact for the Blogosphere: NYT's "The Medium" on ScienceBlogs Dust-Up

George Spyros | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scienceblogs, Blogosphere, The Medium, Anthony Watts, Writing, Watts Up With That?, Web, Science, Weather, Media, Deconstructivism, Journalism, Internet, Science Blogs, Advertorial, Online, New York Times, Science Daily, Virginia Heffernan, Science News, Faith, Blogging, Pepsico, Anthony Weiner, Congressman Anthony Weiner, Media News
George Spyros

Writing with accountability and reading with a sense of responsibility on the Web would form a compact between author and reader, providing a strong "formula" upon which to base our mutually constructed and shared social state.

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The Shirley Sherrod Story: Breitbart Plays the Media Card

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Horowitz

Have you seen this clip? Have you heard this sound bite? Take a look at this thing -- it's unbelievable! Except, of course, when everyone believes it.

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Guest Blog: McCarthyism and Climate Change

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Santer, Blogosphere, Cru Stolen Emails, Rush Limbaugh, Congressman James Sensenbrenner, Ann Coulter, Daily Mail, Exxon Mobil, Mark Marano, Ipcc, Copenhagen, Red Scare, Wall St. Journal, Beck, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, Big Oil, Big Carbon, Royal Society, Mccarthyism, Rupert Murdoch, Lord Monckton, Stephen Schneider, Michael Palin, Stanford, Glenn, Senator Joseph McCarthy, University of Victoria, Senator James Inhofe, Politics News
Giles Slade

Climate change denialists adopt bold new tactics; intimidation, cyber-bullying, break-ins and incidents of industrial espionage.

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I am a Feminist But... That Comes With Responsibility

Shelby Knox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fourth Wave Feminism, Blogosphere, Third Wave Feminism, Feminism, Reproductive Justice, Politics News
Shelby Knox

One oppression can't be uprooted without at the same time and with the same intensity, battling all other oppressions that make life less fair for all people.

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Give Us Back Our Private Lives

Christina Patterson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Twitter, Cherie Blair, Facebook, David Laws, Tony Blair, Big Brother, Privacy, Heat Magazine, Reality TV, Blogosphere, Tabloid Culture, Private Life, Healthy Living News
Christina Patterson

We have battered down our boundaries. The thoughts we might have shared with a friend we now tweet. And here we all are, watching ourselves watching other people watching us.

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Is the Anger in American Political Discourse Good or Bad?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second Amendment, Blogosphere, Talk Radio, Tea Party, Cable News, Political Discourse, Civil Rights, Media News
Dr. Jim Taylor

The ever-expanding universe of new media has given rise to an industry of misinformation and anger, the goal of which is to repel ideas that conflict with one's own.

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The Media's Role in Combating Unilateral Points of View

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue, Blogosphere, Rima Fakih, Miss USA 2010, Sinn Fein, Arab-American, Unesco, Multi-Media, United States, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Brazil, Shiite, Social Media, Critical Thinking, Cnn, Muslim, Rio De Janeiro, Gerry Adams, 3rd United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum, Copacabana, Irish, Lebanese, Ira, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

The following summarizes the author's comments at a round table this week to launch UNESCO's World Report "Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercu...

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