It seems that people are more likely to respond to a controversial blog post that challenges rather than buttresses their own views, so bloggers' gallant defenders are typically few and readily overwhelmed.
Rupert Russell | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
Liberals' disappointment with Obama's abandonment of progressive policies has brought two responses: Put pressure on Obama in effort to push him to the left, or defend his shift as a 'pragmatic' necessity.
Huffington Post | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
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...
Susan Moeller | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
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.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media
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.
Zeeshan Aleem | Posted 11.30.2009 | Politics
Young progressives' public outrage has been supplanted by a clean virtual connectedness, and movement conservatives have succeeded in exploiting the space left behind.
Barrett Brown | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media
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?
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
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.
Lanny Davis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media
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.
Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
Inheritance is White, poor credit scores, Black. A missing woman is White and a fugitive on the loose is Black.
John Milewski | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media
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.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
Suggestions for how you can help the alternative blogosphere in Cuba and organize without intermediaries.
Beth Borzone | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
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.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media
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.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.18.2009 | Comedy
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."
Danny Groner | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media
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.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media
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.
Steven Johnson | Posted 04.16.2009 | Media
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.
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media
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.
Jill Yaworski | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
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.
Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics
Cyrus Krohn's departure comes as an especially heavy blow -- not just to the RNC, but to the conservative blogosphere.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 03.16.2009 | Media
To me, the key to the Fem2.0 conference on February 2 was to mashup, interact, and expand the dialogue.
Rebecca MacKinnon | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
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.
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 12.28.2009 | Media