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Knowing I Will Die Someday, How Then Shall I Live?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Soulful Living, Michael Jackson, Living-on-Purpose, Michael Jackson Death, Living News, Featured Contributor, Dr. Judith Rich, Huffington Post, The Inner Life, Mary-Oliver, Death, Rx for the Soul, Living News

I know this sounds like a really "heavy" subject to be bringing up, especially now, in the middle of summer, when everybody just wants to escape the h...

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Who Delivers the News?

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Cnn, Bbc, The Chicago Tribune, Ieds, The New York Times, Afghanistan, Media, Mraps, The Los Angeles Times, Iraq, Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Media News

On July 6th, half-dozen troops were killed in Afghanistan by IED explosions. Those deaths underline the need to pay attention to the troops' equipment. I expected more reporting on the issue. There wasn't any.

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Being Undermined by National News

Judith Ellis | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Congress, Politico, Lobbyists, New Media, Katharine Weymouth, Obama Administration, Washington Post, Democracy, Huffington Post, Media News

I will not subscribe to the Washington Post. But how can we come together as citizens of our great democracy and make them feel the impact of their action?

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Has Feminism Gone Too Far - Or Not Far Enough?

Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Cerina Vincent, Jodi Lipper, How to Eat Like a Hot Chick, Harper Collins, How to Live Like a Hot Chick, Huffington Post, How to Love Like a Hot Chick, Feminism, Living News

If women are going to have to earn just as much money as their husbands, then they should also be splitting the at-home responsibilities down the middle. That is true equality.

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Think Again: The Strange Politics of Collusion (and "Dickishness")

Eric Alterman | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Dana Milbank, George W. Bush, David Gregory, Iran, Washington Post, Media, Nico Pitney, Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Media News

Alleged dickishness notwithstanding, the argument between Pitney and Milbank was not nearly as trivial as it might initially appear.

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"It Hurts To Be Me": Confessions Of Michael Jackson

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Michael Jackson, Living News, Featured Contributor, Peter Pan, Jackson Five, Dr. Judith Rich, Michael Jackson Dies, Icarus, Huffington Post, Puer Aeternaus Archetype, Rx for the Soul, Living News

Michael was probably the most iconic personality in the modern world who personified the Peter Pan archetype, or as Jung called it, The Puer Aeternaus/Eternal Boy.

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Four Steps to Save Publishing, by the Unpublished

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Ben Hecht, Chicago, Media, New York Times, Washington Post, Publishers, Huffington Post, Journalism, Newspapers, Molly Ivins, Twitter, Hollywood, James Thurber, Dorothy Dix, Ernest Hemingway, Advertising, Economy, Media News

The collective naval-gazing of reporters and publishers far exceeds the outcry when free downloads upended the music industry and streaming video tanked television ratings, because when a crisis hits the writers it's what we write about.

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Today In HuffPost New York

Dan Collins | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

Read More: State Senate, Besty Carter, Nora Ephron, Chuck Schume, Joel Klein, Sheryl Mccarthy, Governor David Paterson, Alfred Gingold, New York, Peter Mehlman, Lenore Skenazy, Charles Schumer, Clara Hemphill, Frank Serpico, Huffington Post, Huffington Post New York, Ellis Henican, Ron Kuby, New York News

Once again today all eyes will turn to Albany and we'll be bringing you every new, exciting moment of dysfunction. And please, check out our bloggers

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Can Women Change The Course Of History In Iran?

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 07.25.2009 | Living

Writing my doctoral dissertation on "The Future of Feminism: Where Do We Go From Here?" in 1995, I never imagined the answer to that question would be found in the streets of Tehran.

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WalletPop And Huff Po Living Discuss 'How We're Living Now'

walletpop.com | Amanda Gordon | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Living, Aol, Wallet Pop, Huffington Post, Gretchen Rubin, Russell Bishop, Living News

The key to thriving in the new economy is understanding why we do things, not just knowing how to do them. That was one of the takeaways of a panel l...

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Would Allen Ginsberg Like Twitter?

Marissa Moss | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Creativity, Twitter, Jack Kerouac, Social Networking, Writing, Maureen Dowd, Media, Facebook, Music, Allen Ginsberg, Tweets, Poetry, Charlie Parker, Technology, Huffington Post, Blogging, Media News

First thought, best thought. Improvisational jazz, poetry slams and music jams, Ginsberg, Kerouac. First thought, best thought. Holy hell. Is that Twitter?

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Unemployed In New York: Tell Huffington Post And Gotham Gazette Your Stories

Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Congress, New York-New York, New York Vertical, Citizen Journalism, New York and Gotham Gazette, Gotham Gazette, New York, Eyes and Ears Huffington Post, Eyes and Ears, New York State Unemployment Rate, New York Unemployment, New York State Maximum Unemployment Benefits, Huffington Post, Ny State Unemployment, New York City News, New York News

The New York vertical is kicking off its first citizen journalism project with our news partner Gotham Gazette. Huffington Post New York plans to show...

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With $25 Million in the Bank, Huffington Looks to Local Expansion

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Beet.TV, Huffington Post, Kara Swisher, New York, Arianna Huffington, New York News

Today in New York, The Huffington Post launches its New York local site. This is part of big roll out of local and "hyper local" sites planned, says Arianna Huffington.

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Bozeman, MT: Want a Job? Give Us Your Passwords

Lisa Derrick | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Bozeman, Invasion of Privacy, Montana, Twitter, Firedoglake, Job Applicants, Employment, Social Networking Sites, Huffington Post, Facebook, Myspace, Privacy, Living News

If you want a job working for this city, be prepared to hand over the log in and password info to all your social networking and blogging sites.

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Eric Hippeau, New HuffPost CEO: "I'm Not Here To Fix It; I'm Here To Grow It"

The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 07.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Eric Hippeau Huffington Post, Huffington Post, Huffington Post CEO, Eric Hippeau, Media News

By many measures, Eric Hippeau, the man who was named the new CEO of the Huffington Post on Monday, just got a dream job. He has a Web site with tiny ...

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Be an Ex-President Without Being President First!

Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Gop, Election Fraud 2004, Al Gore, Newspapers, President Obama, Free World, George W. Bush, Time-Space Continuum, 9/11, Iraq, GOP Shenanigans, War and Peace, Star Trek, John Kerrey, Failing Newspapers, Election Fraud 2000, Iran, First Lady, Former Presidents, Ohio, Iran Election, All the News That's Fit to Print, Rip Van Winkle, President Bush, President Clinton, Bill Clinton, Florida, Michelle Obama, Washington Irving, Ex-Presidents, Election Fraud, Hypnosis, White House Vegetable Garden, Democrats, Bully Pulpit, Barack Obama, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Mainstream Media, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Tolstoy, Ahmadinejad, The Obamas, Iraq War, Republicans, Huffington Post, Comedy News

There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.

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Huffington Post Gets New CEO

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Eric-Hippeau, Betsy Morgan, Huffington Post, Media News

I have published an interview we did with Eric Hippeau from February of 2008 on his view the change nature of news content and the evolution of the Huffington Post.

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Eat the (New) Press: Breakfast at Balthazar's

Sharon Waxman | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker, Nick Denton, Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post, Betsy Morgan, Thewrap, Balthazar, Media News

It was 9:30, and the vibe was laid-back-about-to-inherit-the-power-from-those-big-money media-moguls-uptown-we-can-wait-a-month.

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The Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Blogging

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Christians, Stephen Tyrone Johns, Rahm Emanuel, Georgia, Progressives, Holocaust Museum, Russia, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Huffington Post, Russia Georgia War, Politics News

It is good to see so many progressive voices condemning this bigoted and twisted act of violence. However, much of the analysis of this incident seems to skirt a more troubling and confounding question.

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My Third Anniversary Blogging

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: chrisweigant.com, Huffington Post, Chris Weigant, Politics News

This column apparently shares a birthday with none other than Donald Duck, who turned 75 years old yesterday. Who knew? Yes, my column turned three years old yesterday.

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Who Needs A "Fountain Of Youth"? 7 Great Tips For Self-Renewal

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Living News, Dr. Judith Rich, Featured Contributor, Huffington Post, Resveratrol, Fountain of Youth, The Inner Life, Anti-Aging-Pill, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Anti-Aging, The Spiritual Life, Ponce De Leon, Passion, Stephen R. Covey, Alexander the Great, Passion for Living, Linus Pauling Institute, Living News

Ponce de Leon couldn't find it. Alexander the Great couldn't find it. F. Scott Fitzgerald could only imagine it. Human beings have been searching...

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A Preposterous Pre-Digital Primer

Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Journalists, Lps, Montclair Times, George W. Bush, Born-Again Christians, Nixon's Enemies List, Dinosaurs, American Pie, Internets, Commuter Trains, Mashed Potatoes, Albums, Typewriters, The Day the Music Died, E-Mail, Viral, Sony Walkman, President Bush, Ipods, Swine Flu, Revival Theaters, Computers, Paper Airplanes, Cds, DVD Players, Don McLean, Laptops, Prehistoric, President Nixon, Going Viral, Bush Administration, Mel Gibson, Digital Age, Internet, Enemies List, Phonograph Records, Cell Phones, The Passion of the Christ, Huffington Post, Comedy News

In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.

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Pirates Have Boarded The Good Ship Europe: Will Music, Media and Movie Companies Walk The Plank?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law. But now the pirates will be making the law.

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Tom Edsall Named One Of Washingtonian's 50 Top Journalists Of 2009

Washingtonian | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Huffington Post, Tom Edsall, Washingtonian, Media News

Thomas Edsall, Huffington Post. "Retired" from journalism, Washington Post veteran Edsall, as the Huffington Post's political editor, is ushering in a...

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On Newspapers and Paywalls

John McQuaid | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, American Press Institute, Newspapers, The Future of News, Huffington Post, Death of Newspapers, Media News

I want newspapers and journalism to survive and thrive. And I'm not against charging for some content if it's done right. But even I can see this is crazy.

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