Kind of scary looking blogger Marcy Wheeler raised a few eyebrows by using a common euphemism for oral sex on a MSNBC segment.
Marcy's expressing frustration at lack of investigation into the recent news that Dick Cheney supressed ...
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Newspapers as they move away from the print world and try to embrace the online distribution of news are being faced with how they are going to make money. Advertising might work for blogs ...
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It was jarring, stunning, moving and very sad. And it was also shopped.
The New York Times Magazine piece "The Ruins of the Second Gilded Age" was an essay composed of atmospheric shots, each depicting the stagnation of ...
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Generally when blogs talk condescendingly about the newspapers moving online we like to point out how they never link out to blogs that they mention or one’s that they quote. To a point I ...
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Yesterday I wrote both here and on my home blog about two different types of advertising campaigns that both use video to engage us as a way to promote their products. With both posts ...
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John Hartigan, the Chief Executive of News Ltd, the Australian arm of News Corp has joined in with his colleagues in the United States today in bashing Google and bloggers.
In a wide ranging lecture about how News ...
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There’s nothing like a good dose of rhetoric to galvanize the troops to fight the enemy. It doesn’t matter if there is any truth in the rhetoric. As long as you can do everything ...
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Just as we think that people are beginning to understand how things work on the web along comes idiots like this. It was ridiculous when an organization like the Associated Press (AP) said that ...
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Emails between disgraced South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and his Argentinean mistress obtained by The State Newspaper have been published online today, despite the newspaper having obtained the emails in December 2008.
The emails, dated July 2008 clearly ...
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The Dutch Government is considering a proposal to tax internet access to prop up the local newspaper industry.
The report, compiled by a Dutch Parliamentary committee, proposes a 6% tax on ISP fees which would go directly to ...
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Actor and writer John Hodgman (known from The Daily Show and Apple ads) was the headline speaker at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C last Friday.
The theme of his speech was "nerds" and ...
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UK based citizen journalism agency Demotix has signed deals with some of the world's biggest media outlets to supply images from the protests in Iran.
Demotix acts as a middleman between citizen journalists and the media, collating and ...
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