The Internet

Tweetin' Green

Hillary Newman | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style


Hillary Newman

The idea behind Twitter that anything can be said in that small amount of space. For you Facebook users, think of twitter as the status space on your profile.

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

Jack Myers | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media


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.

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

Bob Guccione, Jr. | Posted 10.18.2008 | Media


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.

Olympics Web 2.0? Not So Fast!

Rebecca Fannin | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media


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.

Media Morph

Charles Warner | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media


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.

Fighting Smears Begins at Home, Mr. Gore

Nancy Scola | Posted 07.29.2008 | Media


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."

The Question Concerning Digital Technology

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business


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.

Inflammatory Committee Terror Report Helps McCain/Lieberman Target Obama

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home


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.

Lieberman's Very Serious Muslim-Bashing Senate Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.17.2008 | Home


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.

Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.16.2008 | Home


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.