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Blogging in Iran: A Dangerous Prospect

Jillian York | Posted 01.21.2009 | World

Read More: Blogosphere, Iranian Blogosphere, State of the Blogosphere, Iranian Bloggers, Omidreza Mirsayafi, Hossein Derakhshan, Iran, Iranian Blogger Arrested, World News
Jillian York

Blogging, the last bastion for speaking one's mind in Iran, is becoming a dangerous prospect.

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Bail Out Investigative Journalists

Rob Kall | Posted 01.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Auto Bailout, Blogosphere, Newspapers, Internet News, Government Bailout, Bailout, Media News, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Media News
Rob Kall

Investigative journalism is at risk. And investigative reporting is not something that can be outsourced or depend upon other countries' workers to do properly.

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Why Every Snarky Blogger Should Thank Don Rickles (and What They Still Have to Learn from Him)

John Mayer | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Blogosphere, John Mayer, Don Rickles, Gossip Blogs, Blogging, Comedy, Entertainment Blogs, Entertainment News
John Mayer

Snarky gossip bloggers, take heed: you will never have a better knack for cutting people down than Don Rickles does, and you owe much of your success to the groundwork laid by him.

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Report No Evil

Ami Horowitz | Posted 01.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Portfolio, Media Criticism, Blogosphere, Portfolio Magazine, Media Bias, U.N. Me, United Nations, UN Movie, UN Documentary, Media News
Ami Horowitz

Portfolio's attempt to paint my film as something it is not by using political titillation and creating divisions where none exist is certainly not the way to steal back relevancy from the blogosphere.

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Top 10 Ways Team Obama Should Use Web Video & MultiMedia

Dan Manatt | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Blogosphere, State of the Union, Internet, Webcast, Obama Inauguration, Rich Media, Joe Rospars, Macon Phillips, Media, Jesse Lee, Barack Obama, Web Video, Oregon, Politics News
Dan Manatt

The technological transformation of the presidency -- and its use of technology to make the executive branch more responsive, interactive, and transparent -- can, from day one, be the first great achievement and legacy of the Obama presidency.

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Elephant in the Room: When Will the GOP Join the Blogosphere?

Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Conservative Media, Liberal Media, Blogosphere, Twitter, Republican Party Internet Outreach, The Huffington Post, Political Talk Radio, Political Blogging, Barack Obama Internet, Bipartisanship 2008, Republican Party Blogosphere, Arianna Huffington, Daily Kos, 2008 Presidential Election, Keith Olbermann Bill O'Reilly, Liberal Media Bias, Conservative Talk Radio, New Media Campaigning, Drudge Report, Barack Obama Internet Campaign, Republican Party Problems, Bipartisanship, Media News
Maegan Carberry and Elizabeth Blackney

Liberals may be ecstatic about the influence the blogosphere has had on the election results, but thoughtful citizens should have reservations about the absence of conservative dialogue.

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Conservative Blogosphere Coming To Terms With Obama Win

NBC 5 | Steve Rhodes | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Review, Reverse Spin, Blogosphere, Democrats 2008, Illinois Conservative Blogs, Conservative Blogosphere, Curt Mercadante, Election Results, Political Blogs, Election Reaction, Backyardconservative, Chicago News

The Illinois Review, which bills itself as the "crossroads of the conservative community" and is probably the best-known politically conservative web ...

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Barack Obama Is Smarter Than Us

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Left, Vice President, Hysterics, White House, Lefty, Bloggers, Joe Biden 2008, Democratic, Liberal, Mccain, Obama, Campaign, President, Sarah Palin, Win, 2008 Campaign, Vapors, Blogosphere, John McCain, Democrat, 2008 Elections, 08, 2008 Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Progressive, 08 Campaign, Palin, Barack, 2008 Presidential Race, 100 Days, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The Obama campaign did not leak, and they did not squabble amongst themselves in public -- right there, two astounding feats that no other candidate in the race could manage.

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The Morning-After Blues

Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Blogging and Political Activism, Blogosphere, Red States, Political Commentary, John McCain, Political Nation, Political Pundits, Election Day, Political Activism, Florida Swing State, Blue States, Barack Obama, Electoral Map, Voter Turn-Out, 2008 Presidential Election, Living News
Darryle Pollack

The countdown to November 4 is torturous. Everyone is worried. Everyone is losing sleep. For some people, the election can't come soon enough. But for me, I wish it would never end.

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Internet Users More Mobile, Curious And Able To Unite Against Religious Right

Brian Ross | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Reagan, Ancient Greeks, Blogosphere, Internet, John McCain, Ronald Reagan, Greeks, Democracy, Hillary Clinton, Fox, Media, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Colbert Report, Home News
Brian Ross

Obama might become the first president in U.S. history to be able to get real participation from the people by harnessing the web to weave new coalitions and bring people together to solve problems.

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The Culture War Option For The Palin Convention

Jay Rosen | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Blogosphere, Liberal Media, John McCain, Culture Wars, Press, Daily Kos, Sarah Palin, Home News
Jay Rosen

McCain's convention gambit is now a culture war strategy. It depends for its execution on conflict with journalists and bloggers and on confusion between and among the press, the blogosphere, and the Democratic party.

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Say It Ain't So, John -- Why Progressives Need To Get Out In Front Of The John Edwards Affair Rumors

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Blogosphere, Sex, John Edwards, John Edwards Affair, Media, Democratic Party, Blogging, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Rielle Hunter, Edwards Rumors, Edwards Affair, Media News
Lee Stranahan

It seems to me that this is going to be a tsunami-sized scandal for the Democratic Party and right now the coming typhoon of press coverage is close to breaking.

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Palestinian Bloggers Rail In The Wake Of Obama Visit

Jillian York | Posted 08.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Blogs, Barack Obama 2008, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Blogosphere, Bloggers, Palestinian, Obama, Israel, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama, Home News
Jillian York

"Let us not forget that Obama was the one strong enough to speak out against the violence perpetrated on the Palestinian people. Where is that leader now? Will he return once elected?"

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Palestine Bloggers On The Obama Tour And The New Yorker

Jillian York | Posted 07.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Palestine, Blogosphere, New Yorker, Barack Obama, Bloggers, Palestinians, Obama, Blogging, Home News
Jillian York

"We Palestinians and Arab Americans have to look at this race carefully... McCain is so dangerous for us and his ideas are so malicious. So, let's pick the less worse of the two: Let's endorse Obama."

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Arianna Discusses The Importance of Blogging on The Debut Episode of Meet The Bloggers

Robert Greenwald | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Meet the Bloggers, Blogosphere, Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington Video, Bloggers, Arianna Huffington, Media News
Robert Greenwald

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A Call to Heroes: My "Sit-Down" With Vince Bugliosi

Linda Milazzo | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, DemocracyNow!, Vincent Bugliosi, Alan Dershowitz, Attorney General, George W. Bush, Amy Goodman, Elizabeth De La Vega, Juan Gonzalez, Cindy Sheehan, Prosecution, Iraq War, Stephen Rohde, District Attorney, Vanguard Press, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Charles Manson, Vince Bugliosi, Media News
Linda Milazzo

Coming from Vincent Bugliosi, a man who has proven time and again that he has no fear, his threat it one that George Bush should take seriously. Vince will not back down.

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Oh My Blog: What's The Big Deal About "New Media" Influence?

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Blogs, Friday Night Lights, New Media, Blogosphere, Media, Old Media, Media News
Richard Laermer

Sometimes blogs elevate the dialogue, sometimes they're clutter. The nature of the blog itself is that there is no nature. It's like the Bush Administration's risible War on Terrorism: terrorism is not warring with us.

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Target To Bloggers: You're Irrelevant

New York Times | MIchael Barabaro | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Blogosphere, Target, Target Bloggers, ShapingYouth.Org, Business News

Target to the blogosphere: you're irrelevant. That was the message the cheap-chic retailer seemed to convey in an abrupt e-mail message to ShapingYou...

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MoveOn Snags Editor From The Onion

Examiner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Blogosphere, Netroots Media, News Media, The Onion, The Onion News, MoveOn.Org, Politics News

Lots of people on the right think that the liberal group MoveOn.org is a joke. Well, now they'll have a bit more ammo in their argument. The powerful...

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Blog-Based Media Poised To Explode

San Francisco Chronicle | Sam Zuckerman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Blogosphere, Gawker Media, Jon Callaghan, Blog-Based Media, Techcrunch, Lisa Stone, Nick Denton, Michael Arrington, Steve King, Media News

In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to...

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