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Threatened Voices Charts Bloggers Under Attack Around The World

Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Bloggers-in-Danger, Bloggers, Internet Censorship, China Censorship, Censorship, Civil Rights, Blogging, Chinese Censorship, Bloggers in Danger, Threatened Voices, World News

Blogging from a fancy office in Soho, it is easy to forget how dangerous it can be for bloggers around the world to do their work. But just last month...

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Media Literacy 101: Losing Our Ability to Listen to the World (in English)

Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: Blogosphere, Arab Media, Bloggers, Icann, Knight Foundation, English, Domain Names, Global Voices, Chinese, America First, Globalization, Official Language, Technology News
Susan Moeller

The decision to allow Web addresses to be written completely in non-Latin alphabets isn't just a huge deal for most of Asia, the Middle East and wide swaths of the rest of the world. It's a huge deal for Americans.

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FTC Decides on a Double Standard for Citizen Journalists

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Iab, Randall Rothenberg. IAB, Online Advertising, Ftc, Internet Advertising, FTC Blogger Guidelines, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

As widely reported (but mostly slept-through) the FTC issued guidelines on October 5th subjecting bloggers to endorsement and testimonial rules that are different from traditional media.

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Leaving the Streets for Tweets: The Shift of Young America

Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senate, Congress, Obama, Health Care, Healthcare, Internet, Blogosphere, Twitter, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Zeeshan Aleem

Young progressives' public outrage has been supplanted by a clean virtual connectedness, and movement conservatives have succeeded in exploiting the space left behind.

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Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds

Barrett Brown | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Rick Santorum, Blogosphere, Obama, Conservatism, Catholicism, Palin, Protein Wisdom, Media News
Barrett Brown

How will Americans look as the globalization of the internet brings a billion new foreigners in close contact with those of us who express our political views online, no matter the medium?

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Washington Post Looking for "America's Next Great Pundit" -- Could It Be You?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Op-Ed Page, Newspapers, Washpost, Bloggers, Writing, Msm, Pundit Contest, Newspaper, Opinion, Froomkin, Media, Journalism, Prize, Blogs, Mainstream Media, Politics, Contest, Wapo, Chris Weigant, Blog, Essay, Newspaper Industry, Post, Washington Post, America's Next Great Pundit, Editorial, Op-Ed, Huffington Post, Pundit, Dan Froomkin, Media News
Chris Weigant

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.

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The Dangerous Joining of the Far Right and Far Left

Lanny Davis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Liberal Blogosphere, Blogosphere, Town Hall Debate, Healthcare System, Demonization, Democratic-Party-Ideological-Divide, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Extreme Right Wing, Ideological-Divide, Healthcare, Politics News
Lanny Davis

When the far left and the far right join in the Politics of Hate and Demonization, it is time for the vast center-left and center-right of this country to speak up and call them out equally.

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More than a Date to the Prom

Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Netroots, Blogosphere, Joe Sestak Specter, Progress, Netroots Nation, Joe Sestak, Politics News
Rep. Joe Sestak

Too many politicians get to Washington and turn their backs on those who got them there. I'm looking for a progressive partner in the blogosphere both during and after the campaign.

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In Defense of FREE: Why I Don't Care That Arianna Doesn't Pay Me

Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Blogosphere, Freelance Writers, Writers, Celebrities Talk Politics, Journalism, Blogging, Bloggers, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Raymond Leon Roker

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.

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The Gates Affair: Why We Care

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Ruben Blades, Al Sharpton, Capital Punishment, Iowa Primaries, James Baldwin, D.C. Statehood, Gitmo, Pablo Escobar, Police Brutality, Liberation Theology, James Crowley, L.A. Riots, Botero, Mount Pleasant STreet Riot, Elijah Mohammed, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Sharon Pratt Dixon, Criminal Just Us System, War on Crime, Vietnam War, Illegal Immigrants, 4th Amendment, Malcolm X, Abu-Ghraib, Pennymac, Louis Farrakhan, The Greaseman, Gentrification, Langston Hughes, Blogosphere, Pedro Navaja, Bill Clinton, Einstein, Colin Powell, Inverse Surveillance, Colombia Road, Adams Morgan, Condoleeza Rice, Jesse Jackson, Driving While Black, Racial Profiling, Barack Obama, Mayor Bradley, Jim Crow, Marion Barry, 2nd Amendment, Martin Luther King, Park Road, Vicente Fernandez, Cambridge Police Department, Skip Gates, Lapd, War on Drugs, Pancho Villa, LosTigres Del Norte, Wpfw, Mariachis, Politics News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.

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The Day the Dialogue Died: Remembering George Liston Seay

John Milewski | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Paley Center for Media, Hardball, Dialogue, Blogosphere, Alternative Media, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Crossfire, Man in the Mirror, Media Criticism, Conversation, Media, Cable News, Journalism, George Liston Seay, 24/7, Media News
John Milewski

George was a practitioner of the increasingly lost art of conversation. He found his fellow humans, of all political persuasions, endlessly fascinating and used his program to learn about them.

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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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Is the Left Dead?

Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Michelle Obama, Democrats, Left, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Blogosphere, Human Rights, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Washington DC, C-Span, Obama Transition, Politics News
Beth Borzone

Lots of people are disappointed with some of Obama's recent decisions but they still love him because he is a person of conviction working within a flawed system.

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The Maureen Dowd Nexus

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Nancy Pelosi, The New York Times, Plagiarism, Maureen Dowd, Drudge Report, Media, Dan Rather, Journalism, Dick Cheney, Torture, Newspapers, Media News
Ashley Rindsberg

Dowd showed us that the media, in its progression from establishment to grass root, from paper to Apple, has reached the Dowd Nexus and is now irretrievably past the point of no return.

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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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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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"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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Old Growth Media and the Future of News

Steven Johnson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Macworld, Death of Newspapers, Newspapers, newassignment.net, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Steven Johnson

The steady transformation from desert to jungle may be the single most important trend we should be looking at when we talk about the future of news.

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Century of Smear: Obama, Rush Limbaugh, and Wikipedia

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, World Net Daily, Rush Limbaugh, Smear, Camille Paglia, Obama, Political Attack, Wikipedia, Rushbo, Media News
Ashley Rindsberg

As the blogosphere becomes the place where news stories are grown and opinions are hatched, it must also take care that it's not the place where scandal-mongering and careless rumor-milling are made.

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One Lucky Dooce: Stay-At-Home Mom Rules Blogosphere

Jill Yaworski | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Blog, Heather Armstrong, Stay-at-Home Moms, Dooce, Media News
Jill Yaworski

Heather Armstrong believes posting "persistently and consistently" is the key to success. By updating her Web site at least once a day, Armstrong's readers continually check Dooce for new material.

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RNC Loses Online Director

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blogosphere, Cyrus Krohn, Rnc, Republican-Blogosphere, Politics News
Jose Antonio Vargas

Cyrus Krohn's departure comes as an especially heavy blow -- not just to the RNC, but to the conservative blogosphere.

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Feminism Online

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Women's Advocacy, Blogosphere, Aauw, Shireen Mitchell, Women's Issues, Bloggers, Culturekitchen, Bush Era, Pop Culture, Now, Womanist, Human Infrastructure, Feminism, Women and Body Image, Carolyn Maloney, Web 2.0, Technorati, Linkfluence, Stimulus Package, Women and Hollywood, Women's Health, New Media, Feminist Majority, Progressive Community, Technology, National Women's History Museum, Momsrising, Fem2.0, Blogher, Feministe, Racialicious, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

To me, the key to the Fem2.0 conference on February 2 was to mashup, interact, and expand the dialogue.

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Dear President Obama: In Talking to China, Remember its People

Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: The Internet, Blogosphere, Dalai Lama, Western Countries, Chinese Blogs, Foreign Affairs, Media Censorship, US Foreign Policy, Media, Tibet, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Foreign Relations, Internet, Tim Geithner Treasury Secretary, Chinese Internet Users, Chinese Culture, Tim Geithner, Chinese Government, Censorship, Chinese Internet, Chinese Censorship, China, World News
Rebecca MacKinnon

If you really want to take U.S.-China relations to a new level that rises above the day-to-day issues, you need to find new ways to engage the Chinese people themselves -- not just their government.

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Friday Talking Points [59] -- New Year's Resolutions (For Democrats)

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left, Lefty, Senator, Transition Team, Al Franken, New Years, Illinois Legislature, New Year's Resolutions, Blagojevich, Pelosi, Transition, Senate Seat, Clinton, House Democrats, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democrats, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Legislature, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Bloggy Left, Reid, Illinois, Blogosphere, Bill Clinton, House, Franken, Democrat, Democrats, 2008 Election, Blogger, Constitution, Mddotw, Hillary, Cabinet, Chris Weigant, Obama Transition, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Senate, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...

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Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor

Ari Melber | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Blogosphere, Nsa Surveillance, Ari Melber, Robert Gibbs, Blagojevich, Gov. Blagojevich, Glenn Greenwald, Eric Holder, Brendan Smith, Surveillance, Obama, Spying, Jesse Lee, Fitzgerald, change.gov, Will Bunch, Bob Fertik, Rod Blagojevich, Macon Philips, Obama Transition Team, Scott Horton, Jonathan Turley, Rachel Maddow, Jeremy Brecher, Fisa, Torture, Special Prosecutor, Obama Transition, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama transition team is taking questions again at Change.gov -- while the press has fixated on the Blagojevich scandal, the allegations of torture by officials in the current administration receive scant attention.

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