New Media

Thanks to the People Who Worked on OffTheBus; Here's What Comes Next

Arianna Huffington and Jay Rosen | Posted 11.17.2008 | Media

Read More: Off the Bus, Offthebus, Marc Cooper Offthebus, Citizen Journalism, Distributive Journalism, Crowd Sourcing, New Media, WeMedia Game Changer Award, Amanda Michel, Amanda Michel Offthebus, Media News

OffTheBus started as an experiment designed to cover the amazing presidential election of 2008 -- and it succeeded beyond all our expectations. Now we want you to become part of the process.

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American Press Institute: Read This Before Your Secret 'Crisis' Meeting

Maegan Carberry | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Web 2.0, Internet, Newspapers, Tim O'Reilly, American Press Institute, New Media, Media, Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, Newspaper Industry, Media News

The American Press Institute is huddled behind closed doors this week in crisis mode discussing how to save the deadwood editions that still turn a profit.

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Obama's Victory, Gen Y, and the New Rules for Communication

Kirk Snyder | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Communication, Barack Obama, Gen Y, Youth Vote, Communication and Politics, Obama Internet, Internet Campaigning, Marketing to Youths, 2008 Presidential Election, Electronic Campaigning, Obama Youth Vote, Youth Marketing, Age of Awareness, Joe the Plumber, New Media, President Elect Obama, Communication and Campaigning, Business News

It's clear that the reason so many young people became involved with the Obama campaign was because he reached them based on an understanding about these new rules for communication.

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Liberals Support Our Troops Too

Kim Mance | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Social Media, Veteran's Day, Support Our Troops, Homeless Veterans, War on Terror, New Media, Iraq, War in Iraq, Veterans, Politics News

Coming from a very conservative background, I've heard liberals called every name in the book throughout my childhood -- especially when it comes to p...

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Arianna Joins Gavin Newsom and Joe Trippi at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco

Huff TV | Posted 11.11.2008 | Media

Read More: New Media, Gavin Newsom, Web 2.0, Media, Joe Trippi, Media News

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spot.us: Community Funded Journalism

Craig Newmark | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media

Read More: New Media, spot.us, Media News

People are trying to find new ways to fund reporting, particularly investigative reporting. spot.us offers means by which people in the community can fund reporting via small donations.

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Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?

Kim Mance | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Travel activates parts of ourselves that might otherwise remain dormant; it also relieves fears, and promotes understanding.

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Facebook and You Tube Helped Obama and Can Help Clean Energy, Too

Brian Keane | Posted 11.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Internet, Youth, Youth Vote, Obama Youth Vote, Going Green, Green, Green News, Renewable Energy, New Media, Clean Energy, Green Business, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News

The clean energy industry may lack the donations that flooded into the presidential campaign, but that doesn't mean we can't take advantage of the online social networking systems utilized.

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Two Years of Inspiration

Deanie Mills | Posted 11.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Hope, Election Day, Obama Young People, First African American President, Obama Technology, Obama West Texas, First Black President, Barack Obama, Obama Youth Vote, Historic Election, Obama Texas, Obama Inspiration, West Texas, Political Activism, New Media, John McCain, Voting, Home News

I have never seen a more exciting demonstration of democracy in action than what I have witnessed in the past two years, since I first read both of Obama's books and signed on as a volunteer.

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Obama Campaign Big Winner in Media Revolution

Steve Miller | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

Now on the precipice of possibly winning the presidency, Barack Obama can rightfully say that newer technologies catapulted him into the White House.

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Women Respond To Palin Goes Live

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Netocracy, Breaking Political News, John McCain, Allilance for Reproductive Justice, People for the American Way, Media News, New Media, Women Respond to Palin, Sarah Palin, Webathon, Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund, Politics News

On Thursday, October 30th, from 1pm to 9 pm (EST), what started as a letter to friends about their reaction to Sarah Palin's nomination will morph ...

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Social Media Must-Haves for the Recently Laid Off

Susan Mernit | Posted 10.29.2008 | Media

Read More: Google, Linkedin, Twitter, Social Networking, New Media, Technology, Facebook, Wordpress, Flickr, Media News

I'd like to share some tips for surviving and going on to your next thing, assuming you're someone who gets the ax.

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The 35,000,000 Visitor Question This November 4th

James Boyce | Posted 10.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Arianna Huffington, Liberal Media, New Media, Progressive Media, Drudge Report, Election Night, Huffington Post, 2008 Election, Media News

When the votes are counted next Tuesday, this site and many others like it, deserve a share of the applause and a mention in everyone's victory speech.

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The New Media Message for Women

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Cnn, Time Warner, Richard Holbrooke, Christiane Amanpour, Candy Crowley, New Media, Election 2008, Momsrising, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Campbell Brown, Politics News

"The Time Warner Summit: Politics 2008," held at the Time Warner headquarters in New York City and co-sponsored with CNN, was a corporate branded even...

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The Internet and the Death of Rovian Politics

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics

Age has finally become an issue for John McCain. But the problem isn't the candidate's 72 years; it's the antediluvian approach of his campaign.

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New Media Brings More People Into the Politically Active Fold

Justin Callaway | Posted 10.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Barack Obama, New Media, Youtube, New Media Election, Election 2008, Presidential Debates, Campaign 2008, YouTube Debate, John McCain, Home News

The debate is over and here come the video responses. Larry Flynt and SNL aren't alone in their election opportunism, many an enterprising YouTuber ha...

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Magazines Are Solution to Web's "Cesspool of Disinformation," Says Google's Eric Schmidt

Jack Myers | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Esquire, Magazines, Google, Internet, Publishing, Eric Schmidt, New Media, Media, Business News

More than 400 magazine publishing and editorial executives gathered earlier this week in San Francisco for the annual American Magazine Conference.

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Josh Marshall on the Growth of Talking Points Memo and Independent Media

Jeff Cohen | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, Independent Media, New Media, US Attorneys Scandal, Tpm, Media News

TPM's Josh Marshall won this year's Polk Award in legal reporting for coverage of the White House firings of U.S. attorneys. This is adapted and condensed from Marshall's Ithaca speech.

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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In Tough Economic Times, Marketers Reconnect to Core Purpose: Classic Jack

Jack Myers | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Reconnecting With Customers, Economy, The Relationship Age, The Internet, Marketing Audience, Television, The Media Age, Advertising, Relationship Age, Remote Control, Jack Myers, Marketing, New Media, Technological Innovation, Connecting With Audience, Media News

Marketers' objectives are shifting away from traditional cost efficiency-based criteria and towards increased emphasis on value, results, and relationship-based decision making.

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Celebrities Join YouTube at UN to Launch Poverty Campaign (PHOTOS)

David Flumenbaum | Posted 09.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Will.I.Am, Slideshow, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Kristin Davis, World Hunger, Angelique Kidjo, UN General Assembly, Elle Macpherson, Black Eyed Peas, U.N., Ban Ki-Moon, Millenium Development Goals. United Nations, Youtube, New Media, Global Poverty, International, In My Name, Entertainment News

On Thursday, will.i.am, Elle Macpherson, Queen Rania of Jordan and Kristin Davis came together at the U.N. to launch the 'in my name' campaign, a challenge to world leaders to fight world poverty.

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Spending Our Way Into the Apocalypse

Andrew Sargus Klein | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media

Read More: 2.0, Magazine, Esquire, October, Strategy, Print, Green News, Web, E-Ink, Cover, New Media, Media, Journalism, David Granger, Media News

The whole scenario found in this month's Esquire verges on gallows humor.

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The Future of Media: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying That the Internet Will Consume Print

Bob Guccione, Jr. | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, New Media, Spin, Newspapers, Old Media vs. New Media, Media, Imagination, Future of Media, Media News

The future of media will boil down to, and pivot on the axis of, one thing: imagination -- how creative we are in exploiting technology and, equally important, with content.

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Smithsonian Goes Online: Video Game, Web Experts To Digitize 137-Million-Piece Collection

AP | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

Read More: New Media, Smithsonian, Education, Home News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online...

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Charlie Beckett Adds His Voice to the New Media Debate

Eric Kuhn | Posted 09.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, New Media, Meet the Press, Old Media vs. New Media, Bbc News, Bbc, The Economist, The Guardian, North Korea, Media News

I am suggesting that new media can be an adrenaline boost, a shot in the arm to journalists, and can be a way to create a more "powerful" media.

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