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The View From Western Colorado

Adele Israel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Grand Junction, Western Colorado, Virtual Community, Facebook, New Media, Social Media, Colorado Democrats, Global Warming Hoax, Denver News
Adele Israel

People here are community-minded, but vote for politicians favoring independence from the awful beast of big government. Registered Democrats are a distinct minority.

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The Many Partnerships That Make Up HuffPost's Denver Section

Katharine Zaleski | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Mountain West, Grand Junction, Rocky Mountains, Colorado, Denver, New Media, Newspapers, Huffington Press Denver, Denver News
Katharine Zaleski

An amazing group of journalists are dedicated to delivering the best coverage of Colorado's cities, politics, culture, opinion, sports and more. That group has chosen to feed in their content to the Huffington Post.

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This Is Denver, Colorado

Ethan Axelrod | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: The Watch, Westword, Launch, Aspen, Telluride, Startups, New Media, Huffington Post, Technology, Vail, Local News, Colorado, Denver, Denver News
Ethan Axelrod

Given Colorado's battleground status, the romantic place it holds in the national psyche as a symbol of the frontier, and a place of treasured natural beauty, Denver starts to make a lot of sense for the Huffington Post.

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Why the West Must Be Won

Gary Hart | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: New Media, 2008 Democratic National Convention, Rocky Mountains, West, National Parks, Denver, Colorado, Denver News
Gary Hart

Starting about 35 years ago, I've argued the political importance of the Western United States, especially in my own Democratic party.

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Technology Is Anthropology

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.14.2009 | Technology

Read More: Wikipedia, Iphone, Internet, Gadgets, Anthropology, New Media, Youtube, Technology, Facebook, HuffPost Technology, Huffposttech, Smart Phone, Jav on Tech, Technology News
Jose Antonio Vargas

HuffPostTech -- a new HuffPost section that launches next Monday -- will cover how technology in general, and the Internet in particular, is changing the way we live our lives.

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The Pentagon Gives Us a Teachable, New Media Moment

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Web, Pentagon, New Media, New York Times, Online Media, Bloggers, Blogs, Newspapers, Afghanistan, Reporters, Iraq, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

The Pentagon plans to issue new restrictions that will make a serious attempt to restrict access to social networking sites.

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Losing the News: A Great Book

Diane Francis | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Blogs, Politics, Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, New Media, Death of Newspapers, Democracy, Media, News, Blogging, Journalism, Citizen Journalists, Broadcast TV, Alex Jones, Business News
Diane Francis

Alex Jones writes that the implosion of the business model for traditional media is creating a vacuum in the type of news gathering, analysis or revelatory investigation which is in the public interest.

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Sports Abbreviating

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Sports, Commercials, US Open, Baseball, Soccer, Football, New Media, Basketball, Directv, Nfl, Red Zone, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

DirectTV has a program called the "Red Zone Channel" that allows subscribers to feast on only the most exciting, inside-the-20-yard-line bits from all games going on around the league.

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New York's Digitized Dems Can Take Over City Council Sept. 15

Diane Francis | Posted 11.08.2009 | New York

Read More: Facebook Applications, Mayor, New-York-City-Elections, New York City Primaries, Internet, New-York-Mayoral-Candidates, New York City Elections, New York Primary, Web, New York Mayoral Election, Mayoral Race, New Media, Digitaldemocracy, Media, Facebook, New York News
Diane Francis

Obama supporters -- about one million registered Democrats -- can vote in next Tuesday's local primary election, and only a tiny fraction of this number could swing the results.

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How to Use Twitter Hashtags to Blast Your Reach and Build Your Follower Base

Rob Kall | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Media, New Media, Hashtags, Twitter, Social Media Marketing, Media News
Rob Kall

It's amazing how many people who don't understand Twitter think it's for telling where and when you had coffee. But for most on Twitter, they are trying to make a difference in some way.

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Twitter Wars 2: Return of the Progressives!

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: #P2, Twitter, Public Option, #Tcot, Nancy Pelosi, tweetprogress.us, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Hashtag, Jim Gilliam, Young Voters, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Mike Huckabee, Brave New Films, Rahm Emanuel, New Media, Tim Pawlenty, Glenn Beck, Healthcare Reform, David All, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

Today on the radio show, we've got Jim Gilliam, co-founder of Brave New Films and Chief Technology Officer of Business.com, who recently created Tweetprogress.us, a directory of progressive tweeters.

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New York: Media Capital 2.0

Lee C. Bollinger | Posted 10.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Medianyc 2020, Columbia University, New Media, Lee Bollinger, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, New York News
Lee C. Bollinger

Like Wall Street, many of our traditional media companies are shedding jobs while the new media and technology sector is growing -- unfortunately, mostly outside of New York City.

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New Media, Same as Old, Old Media

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 09.29.2009 | Media

Read More: The Week, Paid Content, Time Magazine, Perez Hilton, Online Advertising, Nic Brisbourne, Internet Advertising, New Media, Tech Crunch, Huffington Post, Cbs, Journalism, Nbc, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Jarvis Coffin

Information is abundant and free; collating the threads of its different parts becomes the scarce source of value. It may interest us all to know that this was the premise of Time Magazine when it was founded.

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Con Games: Virtual Duality, Personal Media In Aspen

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Newspapers, Media, Advertising, Internet Advertising, Internet, Google, Death of Newspapers, Media News
Michael Conniff

A bigger problem is Craig's List, available in most places for free, the online classified-killer now slurping on the cash cow that once accounted for 45 percent of the newspaper revenue stream.

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Mediashift's Rich Gordon: Huffington Post's Social News Helps Close Awareness Gap

MediaShift | Rich Gordon | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Facebook Connect, New Media, MediaShift, Facebook, Social News, Media, Social Networking, Media News

News Mixer was one of the first Web sites to take advantage of Facebook Connect to build an engaging social experience around news. It won praise from...

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Mediashift's Rich Gordon: Huffington Post's Social News Helps Close Awareness Gap

MediaShift | Rich Gordon | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Facebook Connect, New Media, Mediashift, Facebook, Social News, Media, Social Networking, Media News

This week, one of the top news sites on the Web -- the Huffington Post -- launched a new service (HuffPost Social News) that delivers on that potentia...

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State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sag, Entertainment, Parts and Labor, Show Business, SAG Elections, David Dean Bottrell, Screen Actors Guild, Unions, Boston Legal, Hollywood, Bluray, Aftra, Martin Sheen, Old Media vs. New Media, Writers' Strike Opinion, Aftra-and-Studios, Writers Guild of America Strike, Writers' Strike, Cable Tv, SAG Strike, Amptp, Doug Allen, Ed Harris, AFTRA Negotiations, Dvr, New Media Advertising, New Media, Alan Rosenberg, Politics News
David Dean Bottrell

If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.

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Pakistan Turns To Twitter To Express Political Views

Global Post | Maria Tirmizi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Political Tweets, Twitter, Pakistan New Media, Activisits Using Twitter, Pakistan, New Media, Pakistan Twitter, Internet Pakistan, Tweets, Political Twitter, World News

ISLAMABAD -- Soon after the Supreme Court had declared former President Pervez Musharraf's November 2007 emergency rule to be illegal, Pakistani stu...

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The Health Reform Fiasco Is an 'Old' Media Triumph -- and a Red Flag for Democrats

Peter Daou | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, Obama, White House, Media, Campaign 2008, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care Debate, Media News
Peter Daou

The health reform showdown is powerful evidence that the much-touted online advantage of the Left is certainly questionable when it comes to major political confrontations.

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Enter the Golden Age of PR: Exit Reality

Schuyler Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Marketing, Marketing Trends, Pr, Journalists, Public Relations, Endorsements, Journalistic Freedom, Journalistic Bias, Advertising, Online Advertising, Advertising Age, Media Spin, New Media, Branding, Journalistic Ethics, Campaign Spin, Media News
Schuyler Brown

Brands are ditching advertising, which is really pretty transparent in its intentions, in favor of spin and PR, which really is not. This shift is partly because advertising is failing and partly because PR is right for the times.

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Facebook Buys Rights To "Nearly Everything You Do Online" For $47.5 Million

washingtonpost.com | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Social Media, Internet, Twitter, Digg, Social Networking, Online, New Media, Friendfeed, Media, Facebook, Facebook Status, Business News

Facebook just bought the rights to nearly everything you do online. And it cost them only $47.5 million. Facebook's purchase of FriendFeed, an obsc...

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Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Iranian Uprising, Newspapers, Iran, Death of Newspapers, Fox, Digital Television, Media, Wall Street Journal, Journalism, The Times of London, Blogs, Television, Internet, Online, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, New Media, Media News
Diane Francis

Murdoch and others are the King Canutes of the business world, trying to hold back the tides.

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Help Us Pick the HuffPost Game Changers: 100 People Who Are Using New Media to Change the World

Arianna Huffington | Posted 09.13.2009 | Media

Read More: New Media, HuffPost 100, HuffPost Game Changers, Game Changers, Media News
Arianna Huffington

We are launching the HuffPost Game Changers awards to honor 100 people who are using new media to reshape their fields and change the world in ten categories: Politics, Entertainment, Technology, Media, Sports, Business, Style, Health, Green, Philanthropy

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How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Google, Twitter, Search Engines, Bing, Online Media, New Media, Search Engine Optimization, Journalism, Yahoo, Media News
Maegan Carberry

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

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The New Media Epiphany

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Dave Troy, Free Press, Myspace, Personal Democracy Forum, AT&T, Josh Silver, Dave Weinberger, Alec Ross, Twitter, James Assey, Danah Boyd, Cultural Divide, Facebook, Amanda Michel, Transparency, Mayhill Fowler, Gina Bianchini, Broadband, Propublica, Net Equality, Andrew Rasiej, Micah L. Sifry, Internet, Jeff Jarvis, Ning, Randy Zuckerberg, Hank Hultquist, New Media, Google, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Two years ago, I had a personal epiphany at the Personal Democracy Forum: New media could change everything... From communications to politics to culture. At PDF '09: more revelations.

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