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Self-Googling Enhanced by Blogging Regularly

Danny Groner | Posted 05.23.2009 | Media


Danny Groner

Thanks to news aggregators that have picked up my recent HuffPost pieces, my dreadfully written college newspaper stories are now buried deep inside the annals of double-digit pages on Google returns.

Ashton Kutcher, Susan Boyle and the Power of the People

Michelle Lamar | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media


Michelle Lamar

You might think Ashton's challenge to CNN is silly. Susan Boyle is a singer on a reality show. But they are both examples of the power of the people to make something happen.

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Huffington Post/SurveyWriter.net | Posted 05.14.2009 | Media


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Is the Chamber of Commerce Using Bailout Money to Attack Workers?

Adam Green | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics


Adam Green

There's a natural question for taxpayers to ask: Is the Chamber of Commerce using bailout money to attack workers?

Huffington Post World On Facebook, Twitter

Huffington Post | Posted 05.07.2009 | World


Get the news first. Become a fan of HuffPost World on Facebook and follow us on Twitter. We'd also love your help with our coverage. Sign up here to ...

NATO Leaders Focus On Afghanistan, But Most Reject Obama's Plea For Troops (SLIDESHOW)

AP | SLOBODAN LEKIC | Posted 05.04.2009 | World


STRASBOURG, France — On the eve of the NATO summit, President Barack Obama didn't get what he wanted most from U.S. allies: significant new comm...

My Mother, the Future of Journalism

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.01.2009 | Media


Rob Fishman

The problem with online journalism is that the parts are weaker than the aspirational whole. Handouts, hobbyists and hired guns can fill short-term voids, but the dilemma of modern journalism, in the long run, remains.

Oh, The Humanity! Godless Huffington Post Commenters Wickedly Destroying Conservatism

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media


Chris Weigant

Due to a genetic deformity among conservatives, they are seemingly born without being able to spot irony in all its delicious forms.

HuffPost Finally Liberates Journalism with Investigative Fund

Diane Francis | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media


Diane Francis

The notion of independent financing of truly investigative journalistic projects is a grand idea. It means that strings are not attached and that efforts are judged by results on a case by case basis.

Huffington Post Launches Investigative Journalism Venture

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.29.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — The Huffington Post said Sunday that it will bankroll a group of investigative journalists, directing them at first to look at storie...

HuffPost's Investigative Fund: New Slice of a New News Pie

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 09.01.2009 | Media


Jeff Jarvis

This is where foundation and public support will enter into the new ecosystem of journalism: not by taking over newspapers but by funding investigations and other slices of a new journalistic pie.

Huffington Post Business On Facebook, Twitter

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.27.2009 | Business


Executives getting introduced via Facebook. Shareholders receiving company filings via a Twitter post. CEOs using email to publicize their latest init...

Jason Linkins

HuffPost Livechat With CNN's Jack Cafferty

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media


Award-winning newsman Jack Cafferty joined me and the HuffPost readers for a chat about AIG, Sarah Palin, Fox News and the war on drugs.

Clay Shirky is Right: Newspapers' Death is Journalism's Loss

Tom Watson | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media


Tom Watson

The Internet has been a destructive force for many business models, but none threatens the basis of the republic as much as the digital knife busily sawing at the fraying Achilles tendon of American newspapers.

Last Newspaper Reader Cancels Subscription

William Klein | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media


William Klein

Millions of readers who had been thought to give a damn about reading print turned out to relieved they didn't have to pretend anymore. "You can feel informed in a fraction of the time," said a prominent attorney who requested anonymity.

Harvey Milk Lives -- in Albany

Jim Luce | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics


Jim Luce

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

Murdoch and Fox Portray Black Men as Terrorists on 24

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media


Ronald B. Robinson

The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.

John Conyers, It's Time to Speak Up

Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics


Lawrence Lessig and Michael Eisen

Conyers' proposed ban on "open access publishing" is the darling of the publishing industry because it would force the public to buy for-profit journals to get information that would otherwise be online for free.

Diplo-Blogosphere: Ranking the French, Germans and Brits

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


Steve Clemons

How are the embassies dealing with new media, and using or ignoring the tools that online video and blogging can provide?

Reading The Pictures: Killing That Little Monkey

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


Michael Shaw

2009-02-19-shaw219.jpgThe buck(shot) stops here? Well obviously it likens Obama to a monkey, playing on a long-standing African-American racist slur.

Why Procrastination Might Be Good For You

Russell Bishop | Posted 03.19.2009 | Living


Russell Bishop

Very little of what gets done matters in terms of producing something meaningful, productive, or in alignment with critical goals.

Chatter around the Kitchen Table is What Matters -- Media Chatter Does Not

Michelle Kraus | Posted 03.18.2009 | Media


Michelle Kraus

Maybe the media can stop grand standing and provoking hysteria and get down with the real folks.

If He Brings The Chocolate Body Frosting, Is Dessert On Me?

Diane Tucker | Posted 04.29.2009 | Style


Diane Tucker

But for me, the big shocker was discovering body frosting at my corner Rite-Aid drug store. Who knew mainstream America was so sensual?

Fleischer: Bush Didn't Call On 'Dot Coms And Other Oddballs'

ThinkProgress | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics


After President Obama's first prime time press conference last night, Bill O'Reilly asked former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer for his reaction. ...