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Con Games: Virtual Duality, Personal Media In Aspen

Michael Conniff | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media


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.

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

MediaShift | Rich Gordon | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


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...

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

MediaShift | Rich Gordon | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


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...

State of the Union

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics


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.

Pakistan Turns To Twitter To Express Political Views

Global Post | Maria Tirmizi | Posted 09.18.2009 | World


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

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

Peter Daou | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


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.

Enter the Golden Age of PR: Exit Reality

Schuyler Brown | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


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.

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

washingtonpost.com | Chadwick Matlin | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business


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...

Murdoch Pay-For-Content Strategy A Dud

Diane Francis | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media


Diane Francis

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

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


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

How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


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.

The New Media Epiphany

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


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.

What Is Work? Promoting Authors and Books in New Ways

Sharon Glassman | Posted 08.29.2009 | Entertainment


Sharon Glassman

In this post, we'll look at another way that individuals of passion are creating careers for themselves.

What Do Women Want? What I Learned at Blogher

Lee Woodruff | Posted 08.26.2009 | Media


Lee Woodruff

I arrived at the BlogHer conference in Chicago unsure of exactly what I would find. Would I be the person who didn't speak the language? Didn't get the jokes?

A Forgotten Kitchen Debate and American Public Diplomacy

John Brown | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


John Brown

Though its tools of persuasion have changed, US public diplomacy is above all about human beings connecting rather than a government "pushing a message" on a "target audience."

On Embracing Digital Skeletons

Adriana Dunn | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media


Adriana Dunn

How does a blogger embrace the others who will pivot you toward relative truth?

Recovery.gov Description FAIL

Jake Brewer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics


Jake Brewer

Read as stated, this description leads one to believe that the U.S. government spent nearly $1.2M for 2 pounds of ham ...sliced.

How The Huffington Post Can Pay Its Bloggers

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 08.15.2009 | Media


Michelle Haimoff

As brilliant of a strategy as hiring legions of unpaid writers is, there is a catch. Eventually, the only writers that will write for free are writers that can afford to write for free.

Behind the Scenes of the Global Web Series

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 08.15.2009 | World


Reporters Uncensored

There are unfortunately too many international issues that the MSM does not cover

The Health Reform Debate -- Myths vs. Facts

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Jason Rosenbaum

While it once seemed like our biggest battle was over whether we are going to get a strong public health insurance option as part of reform, that question has now joined a host of others in the debate.

Being Undermined by National News

Judith Ellis | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media


Judith Ellis

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?

Unmasking Your Power

Stephen Funk | Posted 08.10.2009 | Media


Stephen Funk

60 young organizers chosen for a crash course in utilizing new media for progressive campaigning will be tested today in an interactive online mock campaign.

Progressives Just Get It: The New Organizing Institute's Mock Campaign Election Supersizes DC Politics

Katie Naranjo | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media


Katie Naranjo

Young progressive organizers from across the United States join the New Organizing Institute's BootCamp to learn and engage their peers in the newest wave of campaigning -- new media.

Jingoism Isn't Journalism: Why I Don't Trust CNN & Corporate Media to Cover Iran

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media


Linda Milazzo

Old media, and specifically CNN, are learning the difficult lesson that with or without their vast resources and state of the art studios, the Iranians' stories will be told. And they'll be told to tens of millions more viewers than cable and satellite programs tend to reach.

AOL Joins the Internet Party

Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.01.2009 | Media


Jarvis Coffin

Un-encumbered by the weighty media assets of Time Warner, AOL has discovered the joys of smallness online, and the ability to publish freely according to the range of human interests and emotions.