Blogosphere

Introducing a Blog Blog

Lindsay Hoffman | Posted 04.20.2012

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.

Linsanity: The Point God of Sports Memes

Chi Tung | Posted 04.10.2012

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.

Music Blogs React to Megaupload Seizure and Cyberlocker Lockdowns

Jason Sigal | Posted 03.27.2012

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.

The Joys of Blogging

Richard Schiffman | Posted 03.18.2012

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?

Blogging in Bombay: Miss Malini Builds a Business

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 03.12.2012

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.

Can't Miss Blogs For Post50s

Posted 01.11.2012

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...

Amanda Terkel

Obama Staffer Bashes 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.17.2011

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...

The Lion's Den That Was Netroots Nation

Sally Kohn | Posted 08.20.2011

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.

The Need to Question Supposed Certain Sex 'Conditions'

Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright | Posted 07.20.2011

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).

Dead Moms = Better Dads?

Vicki Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

We Party Patriots: Making Labor Work Online

Brandon Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Top Travel Blogs to Discover

Michael Hodson | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Setting the Record Straight on "Fixing Foreclosure-Gate"

Jason Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

Lily Blau | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Not Another Year-End List!

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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?

Writers' Prey and Getting Paid

Liane Kupferberg Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

George Spyros | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

The Shirley Sherrod Story: Breitbart Plays the Media Card

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Guest Blog: McCarthyism and Climate Change

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

Giles Slade

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

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

Shelby Knox | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Give Us Back Our Private Lives

Christina Patterson | Posted 11.17.2011

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.

Is the Anger in American Political Discourse Good or Bad?

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

The Media's Role in Combating Unilateral Points of View

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

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...