Blogs

When I think of today's blunt, fact-based online hell-raisers, my mind quickly flashes on Izzy Stone. You may think of Josh Marshall or Glenn Greenwald or Arianna. I think of Izzy.

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.

Enough with the announcers; we'll take our own journey and become an informed and engaged sports viewership that doesn't need escalating audio-visual effects to enjoy what it's watching.

Papers have to protect and nourish two things they already have -- reporting and the newspaper "brand." Original voices and journalistic credibility are pretty much all papers have left.

An old media reputation, good or bad, seems to be deeper and longer lasting than the flavor of the month reputation that the Internet builds.

Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the plight of security guards working for a company called Inter-Con, a contractor at Kaiser Permane...

In a speech at a Harvard conference on the future of the web, Josh Marshall said traditional reporters are "terrorized" by economic and competitive challenges, living with a mix of "denial and fatalism" about the future of their craft -- and their livelihoods.

They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece -- not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know...

The writer who was suspended by the New Republic for blogging under an alias to praise his own blog posts is now an expert on what's wrong with the internet.

Nearly 15,000 protest letters sent in just a matter of days in response to a single AP news article? That could mark the dawn of a new era in progressive media activism.

A study released this week busts some myths, confirms some hunches, and generally sheds some light on just who blogs.

This presidential cycle is about new media, new thinking, a new world and new opportunities.

By getting Matthews to apologize, the blogs have already had more impact on how the traditional press covers this presidential campaign than they did during the entire 2004 White House run.

It's 2008: Anyone still calling it New Media probably still has AOL e-mail and a Geocites homepage.

Public Eye died because it operated exactly the way CBS News had originally intended. The organization changed, and suddenly transparency and dialogue were no longer affordable.

Our friend skippy tells us we may have a case of a Professional Writer™ who just may have, ahem, 'borrowed' from a blogger. Without attribution or credit.

The residential real estate market may be troubled, but property-focused Web sites are still attracting visitors and investors. Curbed.com, a popular...