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Are Social Network Profiles Putting Us at Risk for Business Discrimination?

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media


Susan Wilson Solovic

I love the world of social networking. But be careful of what information you can include if you are using these sites for business opportunities.

Send Rupert Murdoch A Message He Truly Understands

Scott Foval | Posted 03.23.2009 | Media


Scott Foval

Hit his big white Right Winger pocketbook right through his pants. Dump all of NewsCorp's properties and teach these extremist bigots a lesson in a way they'll remember.

A Googlement Above the People, Around the People, and Ahead of the People

Randall Amster | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media


Randall Amster

Who else would you want keeping track of stuff, watching your back (and front), fighting our undeclared cyber-wars, and making the trains run on time? Next stop, Googletopia!

A Bold, Old Idea for Saving Journalism

Walter Isaacson | Posted 03.08.2009 | Media


Walter Isaacson

I hope that 2009 will be the year when creators of valuable content start charging and readers begin paying for the journalism they want.

Newspaper Editors To Generation Y: Drop Dead

Diane Tucker | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media


Diane Tucker

Doesn't the best online journalism still depend on old media outlets? What happens when we lose all those print reporters, the ones who file history's first draft?

Maintaining Presidential Popularity During a Recession

Darrell West | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics


Darrell West

Obama is a gifted public speaker whose ability to inspire hope, confidence, and optimism is legendary. He relates well to ordinary folks and understands how to communicate in terms people understand.

Obamerica's Digital Congregation

Aimee Liu | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics


Aimee Liu

Thanks to digital organizing, Obama now has a secular congregation as big as America. That congregation elected him. Now that same congregation is going to practice the values that he has preached.

Celebrity-Packed Pledge For Obama (VIDEO)

MySpace Celebrity | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment


Hollywood heavyweights made their pledges to Barack Obama in the video below. Directed and edited by Demi Moore, it features celebrity pledges by Cam...

Why the Youth Vote Is the Big Story -- For 2008 and for Decades to Come

Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber

We'd like to state the case for the youth vote as being crucial in understanding the Obama victory and what it means for the future. The youth vote deserves a lot of respect in its shaping of the electoral map.

State Your Change

Levi Felix | Posted 02.09.2009 | Living


Levi Felix

Be inspired by some of the amazing videos others have posted, post your own video to Causecast and together we will answer Obama's call for change.

MySpace, Wall Street Journal Partner To Send MySpace User To Davos

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media


News Corp cousins MySpace and the Wall Street Journal have partnered in a contest to send one MySpace user to the World Economic Forum later this mont...

Fair Trade Suffers When China Censors The Internet. It's Not Just A Human Rights Issue.

Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics


Michael A. Santoro and Wendy Goldberg

We are accustomed to thinking of censorship purely as a human rights issue, but for information providers and technology companies, censorship acts as a trade barrier.

Leno to Take Over 10PM: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 9, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.09.2009 | Media


Shelly Palmer

After Conan O'Brien takes over the Tonight Show in May, Jay Leno will begin hosting a show at 10pm on NBC. The move coincides with Jeff Zucker's pla...

The New Power Girls: New Brand of Business Women Channel Rupert, Not Carrie

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 01.07.2009 | Business


Patricia Handschiegel

Call it women's intuition on steroids, today's modern women entrepreneurs are tapped tightly to their gut and execute their plans from there.

Editorial: Marketing In The World Of The Web

Wall Street Journal | TOM HAYES and MICHAEL S. MALONE | Posted 12.30.2008 | Business


Retailers will eventually recover from the consumption tailspin that threatens this holiday season. But quite apart from the recession, there are othe...

Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 12.27.2008 | Home


LOS ANGELES — A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of only three minor offenses for her role in a...

Classmates.com User Sues; Schoolmates Weren't Really Looking for Him

Wired | Ryan Singel | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business


When Classmates.com told user Anthony Michaels last Christmas Eve that his former school chums were trying to contact him, he pulled out his wallet an...

Madagascar Earns $63.5 Million at Box Office: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 10, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media


Shelly Palmer

"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" took home the top spot at the Box Office this week. The DreamWorks-Paramount production took in $63.5 million at 4,056...

McCain Helps SNL Score 2nd Best Ratings In A Decade: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer November 3, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media


Shelly Palmer

John McCain's appearance on Saturday Night Live helped the show average a 9.0 household rating/ 20 share in metered markets. Saturday's SNL was only...

MTV, MySpace Partner To Test Profiting From Piracy

AP | RACHEL METZ | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — Instead of trying to take down all copyright-protected videos that its members post, MySpace will let certain clips stay _ and give t...

The MySpace Election... and Beyond

Chris DeWolfe | Posted 11.29.2008 | Media


Chris DeWolfe

A campaign no longer has the luxury of thinking of the Internet as an afterthought, but rather it must be a major part of the strategy of every campaign from president down to student body president.

If It Ain't Broke, Don't Try To Fix It

Leslie Harris | Posted 11.23.2008 | Media


Leslie Harris

Given the proven benefits of this open model for Internet use, it is confounding how many people, both in government and industry, seem willing to start tinkering with it.

Online Social Networking and the Quarterlife Crisis

Beth Appel | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living


Beth Appel

After celebrating my 25th birthday with a full day of crying for no apparent reason, things have changed. I blame Facebook.

Chicago Band Needs Your Help

Chicago Reader | Miles Raymer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago


Life on tour is unpredictable to say the least. You never know what kind of show you're heading to, or where you're going to sleep after you play, or ...

What's Next In Online Safety

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living


Stephen Balkam

Kids are now producing the kind of content we once shielded them from. There are cases pending in court where the kids are being charged with production of child pornography.