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Digital: Beyond Our Control, But Within Our Reach

Chris Curtin and Bob Greenberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Experience, Digital Media, Twitter, Nike, Publishing Industry, Advertising, Digital Advertising, Hewlett Packard, Consumer Spending, Youtube, Fiat, Publishers, Okrut, Telemarketing-Campaigns-Iowa, Media News
Chris Curtin and Bob Greenberg

Marketers should create campaigns and branded platforms that explain how to get more value out of products, and "why" someone should have them in the first place.

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Climate Lobby Investigation Goes Global — and Digital

Tracy L. Barnett | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: International Journalism, Digital Media, Twitter, Corporate Globalization, Climate Lobby, Lobbyists, Climate Change, Environment, Globalization, New Media, Investigative Journalism, Media, Corporate Greed, International Reporting, Facebook, Investigative Reporting, Green News
Tracy L. Barnett

The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been raking in the awards for its international tobacco smuggling investigation. Now it's targeting the lobbying effort to influence the treaty on climate change.

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Digital Divine Mind

Sheila Shayon | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Deepak Chopra, Internet, Digital Media, Mary Baker Eddy, Communication, Mobile Phones, Technology News
Sheila Shayon

The digital world of communications is the nearest thing to heaven on earth. The smarter we get about the true nature of matter -- the smaller, faster, and more powerful it becomes in our hands.

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Online Journalism: How To Launch Your Own News Site

mashable.com | Posted 09.24.2009 | Technology

Read More: Media Startup, Digital Media, Online Startup, Independent Journalist, How to Be a Writer, Citizen Journalism, Independent Journalism, Startup Journalism, Web Journalism, Online News, Journalism, How to Be a Journalist, Online Newspapers, Technology News

These bootstrapping indie journalists are learning to run their own small business, including tending to many details they never had to worry about be...

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Hey, People! Buck the !@#!$ Up!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Death, Doom, Books, Magazines, Digital Media, Newspapers, Gloom, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Stuff changes. And there will be losers. But to be the harbingers of doom about your own business? Aren't there plenty of others around to do that job?

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Six Pixels of Clarity

Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.08.2009 | Books

Read More: Podcasting, Social Media, Digital Media, Mitch Joel, Review, Sales, Books, Twist Image, Digital, Marketing, Blogging, Books News
Hugh McGuire

Mitchell Joel's Six Pixels of Separation is written as the story of a business owner and entrepreneur, and not as a pundit.

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DLC: The New Black! The Second Coming of Expansion Packs

Theodore Bergquist | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Apple, Beatles Rock Band, Videogames, Rock Band, Digital Downloads, Music Business, Entertainment Industry, Gamersgate, Business, Video Games, Downloading, DLC Video Games, Dlc, Media News
Theodore Bergquist

There's been a lot of talk about downloadable content for video games recently. There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a significant, fast growing trend here.

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Video: Lionsgate Realizing 95% Margins on Digital Business

Daisy Whitney | Posted 08.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Lionsgate, Break.com, Web Video, Cinemanow, Weeds, Hulu.com, Mad Men, Amazon.com, Itunes, Saw Movies, Youtube, Lionsgate Digital Media, Natpe, Hulu, Media News
Daisy Whitney

Lionsgate's digital business is realizing 95% profit margins across new media venues like iTunes, Amazon, CinemaNow, Hulu, and YouTube.

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Jason Linkins

Google Posts Advertising 'Spin Document' Online

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Video, Business News, Transparency, Google Operating System, Privacy, Internet Privacy, Google, Media News

Yesterday, we reported that Consumer Watchdog had obtained, and provided satiric annotations for, a "spin document" that Google had presented as a par...

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Jason Linkins

Consumer Watchdog Takes On Google As Lawmakers Mull Data Privacy Regulation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Transparency, Google, Digital Media, Video, Internet Privacy, Privacy, Google Operating System, Business News

Consumer Watchdog -- which, as the name implies is a consumer watchdog organization -- is raising alarms over privacy concerns that have been brought ...

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I Am Holden Caulfield

Michael Wolff | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Michael Wolff, Intellectual Property, Media, J.K.Rowling, J. D. Salinger, Media News
Michael Wolff

The best client you could have if you are an intellectual property lawyer is JD Salinger. The second best is JK Rowling.

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Framing the Green Revolution in Red

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Criticism, Digital Media, Nonviolent Action, Iran, Democracy, Social Movements, Media News
Cynthia Boaz

The Green Revolution is not just a series of ad hoc protests against a political theft, it is a story of widespread resistance to ongoing oppression.

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Why I Don't Twitter

Jared Seeger | Posted 06.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, New Media, Microblogging, Twitter, Facebook, Social Networking, Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Palin, Media News
Jared Seeger

The reason I don't like Twitter is because it's redundant. Churning out 140-character updates on the relative quality of your lunch does not warrant its own site.

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Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, Digital Media, Twitter, Technology, Advertising, Laweekly, Hollywood, Media News
Alexia Tsotsis

Ad agencies now see social media as platforms to build their own content and putting a serious hurt on the buying of page views and online carriage.

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CrowdFunding: How to Kickstart Your Business

Juliette Powell | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Kiva.org, Wikipedia, threadless.com, Crowdfunding, Juliette Powell, Crowdsourcing, 33 Million People, Perrychen, KickStarter.Com, Small Business, Social Networking, Funding, Business, Crowd Funding, Social Media, Digital Media, Social Networks, Entrepreneurship, Business News
Juliette Powell

'Crowdfunding', a spin on 'crowdsourcing', is the latest funding opportunity at a time when our funding institutions are failing.

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Digital Textbooks for Your Online Education

Scott Lachut | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Education, Psfk, Media News
Scott Lachut

We've written about a variety of learning tools that have been popping up on the web in recent months from institutional examples like Academic Earth to iTunes University.

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Take Note: News Corp Quietly Owns NYC Neighborhood Newspapers

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Politics, Digital Media, Newspapers, Civic Participation, New Corp, Community Organizing, Democracy, Media, Policy, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, New York City, Journalism, Mexico, Media News
BlackAndBrownNews

With News Corp's purchase of neighborhood publications like the Brooklyn Paper, all that annoying journalism that challenges pesky things like protecting citizens from eminent domain is all but lost.

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History's Most Accessible Inauguration Provides A Spotlight On Change

Jared Cohen | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Dorm Room Diplomacy, Zanzibar, Barack Obama Digital Media, Digital Media, Africa Obama, Obama's Inauguration, Barack Obama, Obama Inauguration, East Africa, Obama Africa, Tanzania, World News
Jared Cohen

This was the most accessible inauguration in history. Because of digital media and global interest, more citizens of the world had digital box seats to watch, hear, and feel the democratic experience.

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Israel and Gaza: Over-Democratizing the Debate

Jared Cohen | Posted 02.07.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Twitter, Gaza, Israel Digial Media, Hamas, Facebook, Gaza on Facebook, Dorm Room Diplomacy, Digital Media, Citizen Journalists Israel, Israel on Facebook, Youtube, Israel, Citizen Journalists Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, World News
Jared Cohen

The advent of digital media has democratized the debate and opened the largest front of the Arab-Israeli conflict: concerned citizens around the world armed with mobile phones and computers.

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Responding to Mumbai: A Population Speaks Out

Jared Cohen | Posted 01.31.2009 | World

Read More: India, Orkut, Media Online Organizing, Pakistan, Digital Activism, Online Activism, Mumbai Facebook, Facebook, Dorm Room Diplomacy, Digital Media, India Digital Media, Mumbai Orkut, Shubham, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai Twitter, World News
Jared Cohen

In response to the Mumbai attacks, Facebook and other online social networks are flooded with communities, discussion groups, and individual members convening online to speak out with an amplified voice.

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Rebutting the Skeptics: Digital Media Is America's Ally

Jared Cohen | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Foreign Policy Digital Media, Civil Liberties, Al-Qaeda, Bloggers, Activists Digital Media, Facebook, Online Organizing, Foreign Policy, Extremists Digital Media, Digital Media, Digital Media Empowerment, Fouad Al-Farhan, Bloggers Arrested, Mumbai Attacks Digital Media, Technology, Blogging, Dorm Room Diplomacy, World News
Jared Cohen

Over the past year we have seen digital media empower populations around the world in unprecedented ways, but there are skeptics who don't buy into this trend as a force for social good.

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The Best Selling Digital Song Ever Is By... Journey?

Hypebot.com | Posted 12.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Digital Media, Itunes, Journey, Don't Stop Believin', Music Downloads, Business News

Don't Stop Believin', the Journey power ballad, has become the first catalog track ever to sell more than 2 million downloads according to SoundScan. ...

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What Publishing Can Learn From Music

Hugh McGuire | Posted 11.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Digital Media, Meet the Press, Publishing, The Economics of Book Publishing, Kindle, iPhone Applications, Digital Downloads, Books, E-Books, Media, Digital Devices, Sony, Ipod Stanza, Media News
Hugh McGuire

Book publishing is late to the digital party so it can look to all the many mistakes the music business made in the past decade, and decide how to move into the uncertain future.

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The Dawn of the Diamond Age

Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Internet, Digital Media, Twitter, Facebook, Food Politics, Media News
Steve Rosenbaum

Fuel prices drive up the cost of physical goods -- and shift the economy to digital goods. Just in time.

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Hollywood, Silicon Valley Team Up For Start-Ups

New York Times | Laura M. Holson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Digital Media, Accel Partners, AT&T, William Morris Agency, Silicon Valley Venture Capital, Hollywood, Venrock, Silicon Valley, Business News

Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new ventu...

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