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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
Jack Myers

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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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
Bob Guccione, Jr.

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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Olympics Web 2.0? Not So Fast!

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 08.22.2008 | Media

Read More: Mobile Phones, China, Technology, The Internet, Olympics, Media News
Rebecca Fannin

The Beijing Games were billed as the world's first web 2.0 Olympics -- the time when the Internet and video streaming would shine as they reflected China's glory of hosting theevent. But I found it not so.

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Media Morph

Charles Warner | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Iphone, New York Times, Pandora, Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Media News
Charles Warner

Newspaper and magazine content will continue to be valuable and read; it will just have a different, far less expensive and more rational distribution channel -- the Internet.

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Fighting Smears Begins at Home, Mr. Gore

Nancy Scola | Posted 07.21.2008 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Al Gore, Netroots Nation, Al Gore Global Warming, An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore Internet, Media News
Nancy Scola

Al Gore, who's not a candidate for anything this season, needs to be willing to get up on stage and say, "You know what? Damn right. The Internet? All me."

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Why Susan Sarandon Likes the Internet, but Doesn't Use It

Darrell Hartman | Posted 07.13.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Internet, Internet, IAC Media, Frank Gehry, Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon, Email, Luddites, Josh Hartnett, Children and the Internet, Entertainment News
Darrell Hartman

When celebrities choose to remain unplugged from the wired world, are they exercising their privilege to be more aloof than the rest of us? Or are the...

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The Question Concerning Digital Technology

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.21.2008 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Web 2.0, New Technology, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Technology, Silicon Valley, Heidegger, Business News
Hugh McGuire

I'm not interested in technology per se, I am interested in the ways we might use it to make our lives richer and more meaningful.

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Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.12.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, Homeland Security Committee Report, Homeland Security Committee, Obama Appeaser, Lieberman Islam, And the Homegrown Terrorism Threat, Aclus Lieberman, Obama Hamas, Obama Homeland Security Committee, Terrorism Lieberman, Islamophobia, John McCain Hamas, Bush Nazi Appeaser, The Internet, Violent Islamist Extremism, Lieberman Obama, President Bush, Terrorism Obama, Home News
Chip Berlet

If Obama fails to embrace the report, he will be seen as ignoring his own congressional committee's findings-- and so knowingly failing to appreciate the threat of "radical Islam" and being willfully soft on terror.

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Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Civil Liberties, The Internet, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Repression, Terrorism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Susan Collins, Witch Hunt, Violent Islamic Extremism, Almontaser, Violent Islamist Extremism, Muslims, Joe Lieberman, Home News
Chip Berlet

Joe Lieberman's homeland security committee lobbed a biased bombshell last week in its report on the domestic threat of violent Islam. U.S. Islamophobia has consequences. Take the case of Debbie Almontaser.

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Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Witch Hunt, Muslims, Repression, Terrorism, Civil Liberties, Lieberman Islamic Extremism, Susan Collins, Violent Islamic Extremism, Homeland Security Report, Leberman Report, Liberman Homeland Security, Joe Lieberman, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, The Internet, And the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, Violent Islamist Extremism, Home News
Chip Berlet

A stacked senate committee on homeland security today issued the first of a series of reports on "homegrown terrorism and violent Islamist extremism." It's readymade election-year swiftboating material.

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The SAG Negotiations: Two Short Videos By German Actors Explain Why TV and Film Actors Have To Remain Vigilant

Michael Russnow | Posted 03.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Internet, Aftra, Video, Detlef Behr, Wga, Andreas Stenschke, SAG Strike, Actors Strike, WGA Strike, German Actors, Sag, Writers Strike, Production Revenues, Michael Russnow, Screen Actors Guild Strike, European Actors, Residuals, Screen Actors Guild, SAG Negotiations, AFTRA Negotiations, AFTRA Negotiation, SAG Negotiation, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

A better case could not be made for what's at stake for all of us who work in the American entertainment industry than a video produced by German actor Andreas Stenschke.

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The WGA Strike For Dummies: End Game - But What About Our Future?

Michael Russnow | Posted 02.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: End Game, Residuals, Russnow, Michael Russnow, Writers Guild, WGA Strike, The Internet, Wga, Writers Strike, Entertainment News
Michael Russnow

The writers' work stoppage has been our shot across the bow. And it was magnificently played. There's no doubt our producing partners know we mean business and now take us seriously.

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The WGA Strike for Dummies, and My Concerns Over the DGA Deal

Michael Russnow | Posted 01.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Michael Russnow

Once we accept a deal similar to the DGA's, it will be almost impossible to significantly improve it once we realize how much money the Internet networks are making and how little in comparison we are.

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Putting the "Self" Back into Self-Regulation

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.13.2007 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Congress, Fcc, Regulation, Freedom Online, Business News
Stephen Balkam

What should and can the Internet industry do? Self-regulation demands a robust and comprehensive response which demonstrates that governments don't need to act.

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