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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

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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Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

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Neighborhood Watch 2.0: Neighbors Twitter, Blog To Keep Criminals At Bay

AP | MEGHAN BARR | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Neighborhood Watch 2.0, Crime Fighiting, Twitter, Neighborhood Watch, Media News

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Cruise down the tree-lined streets of the Old Oaks neighborhood on a summer evening and know this: Someone is watching you. It...

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Julie & Julia: When the World Writes You Back

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment

No matter what twists we see in Publishing 2.0, a love story running through Julie & Julia is that sometimes, after the solitary act of writing, the world writes you back.

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Gawking at the Washington Post

Hugh McGuire | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Britannica, Wikipedia, Blogs, Newspapers, Content, Gawker, Ian Shapira, Bloggers, Anne Loehr, Hamilton Nolan, Death of Newspapers, Media, Washington-Post, News, Blogging, Media News

The problem with Gawker blogging about a Washington Post story isn't bloggers "stealing" stories. The problem is measuring the value of content.

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What Is Work? Promoting Authors and Books in New Ways

Sharon Glassman | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Manhattan, Russ Marshalek, Atlanta, Books, Twitter, Jobs, Passion, New York City, Happiness, Happiness Tips, Blogs, Authors, Publishing, Work, Careers, New Media, Publicity, Entertainment News

In this post, we'll look at another way that individuals of passion are creating careers for themselves.

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Journalism, Tech Crunch and Stolen Information

Tim Berry | Posted 08.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Daniel Ellsberg, Journalism, Pentagon Papers, Techcrunch, New York Times Magazine, Ethics, Media News

You don't have to appear in print to be a journalist; but you do have to have a code of conduct.

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Progressive Progress

David Horton | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Progressive, Conservative, Liberal, Politics News

As a biologist I tend to observe the behavior of conservatives in the way that I would observe bird behavior, or the behavior of, say, skunks.

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The End of An Era. And That's the Way It Was. Walter Chronkite.

Michelle Kraus | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Goldman Sachs, Twitter, Broadcast News, Sarah Palin, Walter Cronkite, Media News, Media, Journalism, Broadcast TV, Walter Cronkite Dead, Media News

Cronkite heralded an age that ha fallen by the wayside for ratings. The bitter irony is that the issues are as compelling today as they were fifty years ago, and we hunger for information and commentary that we can trust.

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How The Huffington Post Can Pay Its Bloggers

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Journalists, Internet, Content, Online Advertising, Advertising, Bloggers, The Huffington Post, Web, New Media, Business, Alec Baldwin, Arianna Huffington, Journalism, Blogging, Media News

As brilliant of a strategy as hiring legions of unpaid writers is, there is a catch. Eventually, the only writers that will write for free are writers that can afford to write for free.

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Nielsen Numbers Back Froomkin: Suggest He Wasn't Only One at Wash Post to Lose Audience

Greg Mitchell | Posted 08.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Washington Post, Dan Froomkin, Blogs, Bloggers, Froomkin, Media News

Froomkin has alleged that, in recent months, many at the Washington Post lost a lot of audience. So why was he singled out?

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Carping

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Time, Time Warner, Media, Thoreau, Recession, Media Maneuvers, Cheapskate, Media News

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting tired of the media telling me what I need and don't need. Time's Cheapskate blog is just the latest manifestation of this trend

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Behind the NRDC's Social Media Strategy

Eric Kuhn | Posted 07.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Blogs, Natural Resources Defense Council, Twitter, Social Networks, Nrdc, Netroots, NRDC Action Fund, Viral, Facebook, Obama-Environemntal-Policy, Global Warming, Green News

hen the Natural Resources Defense Council needs to generate attention for environmental issues, one of the people they turn to is Apollo Gonzales, the Netroots campaign manager.

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The Bad Mother Conundrum

Libby Mitchell | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Blogs, Nadya Suleman, Dooce, Children, Mothers, Blogging, Adoption, Motherhood, Living News

Does any mother actually feel like they are doing a good job? I am asking these questions due to my (hopefully) impending motherhood. How am I supposed to do their hair? I can barely do mine.

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Iranians Denounce Injustice, Provide Lessons to Cuban Bloggers [VIDEO]

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Democracy, Iran, Internet, Blogs, Twitter, You Tube, Iranian Revolution, Cuba, Facebook, World News

What is happening in Iran and its dissemination through the Internet is a lesson for Cuban bloggers.

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Memorial Fund Established For Slain Holocaust Museum Guard (And The Rest Of Your Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Steve Doocy, Video, Stephen Tyrone Johns, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Rights, Fox and Friends, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Rancid, Youtube, Barack Obama, Media News

Just so everyone knows: The American Jewish Committee's Washington DC chapter has established a memorial fund for Stephen Tyrone Johns, who was killed...

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Depictions of Julie & Julia Years Apart Show Their Differences

Danny Groner | Posted 07.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Culinary, Ambition, Books, Quarterlife Crisis, Culinary School, Movies, Blogs, Dreams, Amanda Hesser, Nora Ephron, Cooking, Meryl Streep, Julie/Julia Project, Julia Child, Amy Adams, Julie & Julia, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julie Powell, Entertainment News

After seeing Julie & Julia I decided to read what was written about Julie Powell back when she was still actively engaged in her project.

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Scritti Politti: May 19, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Ezra Klein, Video, Auto Tune the News, David Souter Retires, Copyright, Danger Mouse, Bloggers, Supreme Court, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Auto-Tune-the-News, Media News

The best work of Brian Joseph Burton, better known as DJ/produce par excellence Danger Mouse, is also best known for being illegal. Naturally, I refe...

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What Maureen Dowd is Trying to Tell Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, New York Times, Maureen Dowd, Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall, Blogging, Bloggers, Media News

I see this latest scandal as a cry for help from Dowd. She's trying to tell us, and her bosses at The New York Times, something very important.

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Tips From Real, Live, Breathing, Non-Professional People on Dealing With Stress

Liz Spikol | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Blogs, Depression, Tools, Tips, Animals, Advice, Dogs, Happiness, Yoga, Catharsis, Spikol, Socks, Exercise, Crisis, Anxiety, Relaxation, Sleep, Living News

Those of us who suffer from mental illness often seek advice on how to make it through each day. No matter how fabulous your meds are, it's still going to be rocky now and then.

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A Business Model for Journalism Where Writers Get Paid

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.30.2009 | Media

The only economically viable option for the future of journalism lies in the direct corporate sponsorship of content.

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Fiji Bloggers A "Threat To National Security": Military

Voice Of America | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

Read More: Blogs, Fijian Blogger, Fiji Blogger, Fiji Military, Bloggers, Foreign Affairs, Fijian Bloggers, Fiji Bloggers, Blogging, Anonymous Blogger, Advocacy, Fiji, Bloggers in Danger, World News

Fijians are increasingly turning to blogging to circumvent media censorship as the military government continues to impose restrictions on newspapers ...

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Drowning in Twitter World

Geri Spieler | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Icon, Blogs, Amazon.com, Linkedin, Sara Jane Moore, Twitter, Geri Spieler, Social Networking, Nielsen, Red Room, Diggers, Facebook, Huffington Post, Neilsen Survey, Myspace, President, Media News

OK, so maybe it's just me, but all this Social Networking is just too much pressure!

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Journalism versus the Zombies

Paul Dailing | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Old Media vs. New Media, Twitter, Zombies, Social Networking, Click and Clack, Nina Totenberg, Lou Dobbs, Media, Facebook, Journalism, Blogs, Sarah Lacy, Npr, Vlogs, Car Talk, Cnn, Jeff Jarvis, Ira Glass, New Media, Fox News, Sam Zell, Media News

The dead rising from their graves to consume the living and overrun the earth, like so many other new trend stories, first broke on Twitter. In its e...

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