• YouTube video turned into game
  Fucking awesome. The possibilities are endless.
  (tags: new.media youtube video kottke)
• Tracy Van Slyke and James Boyce: The Best Progressive Media Rises to the Top
  Media Consortium's Media Wires kick off.
  (tags: media.consortium huffpo new.media aggregation)

• NY Times, Washington Post, CNN Partner with Bloggers | Media Industry Blog | BNET
  V. interesting.
  (tags: tech new.media blogging nyt wapo cnn)
• The <i>NYT</i> Now Allowing Comments on its Op-Ed Pieces – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Interesting.
  (tags: commenting nyts new.media)

• 313 – A Handy Map of San Francisco Bay « Strange Maps
  Awesome.
  (tags: visualization maps california art)

• New York Times Launches TimesPeople Social Networking Site – Mashable
  Similar to what we're doing but with less info shared and without blogging or an interface to bring up collective recommendations.
  (tags: nyt mashable new.media social.networking comments community)
• CBS Launches Eyemobile for iPhone to Target Citizen Journalists
  Interesting. Not sure what the incentive is, but whatevs.
  (tags: new.media techcrunch user-generated.content iphone cbs)
• GigaOM Network Content to be Featured on CNNMoney.com – GigaOM
  The partnerships continue.
  (tags: new.media finance tech gigaom blogging cnn)

• Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
  A typically interesting re-framing of the "Info Overload" meme.
  (tags: clay.shirky new.media aggregation filtering)
• The Long Term Impacts of Online Critics on Personal Brands
  If you don't get out there and start producing your own Google search, someone else will.
  (tags: web2.0 reputation marketing branding blogging identity)
• Googling in Person to Make Friends – NYTimes.com
  Google's ad team goes to work. Crossing my fingers for them.
  (tags: google advertising finance new.media nyt)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Media Re:public – what’s broken in journalism, and can citizen media help fix it?
  Brilliant talk on the current state of new media. Some important reality checks (legacy media is still dominant, even online) and important warnings (we do need to focus on new models of credibility online). Must read.
  (tags: new.media journalism internet blogging ethan.zuckerman)
• Why Every News Site Should Put a Continuously Updated News Aggregation on the Homepage – Publishing 2.0
  Everyone should aggregate.
  (tags: web2.0 newspaper journalism internet blogging drudge aggregation hyperlinks)
• The College Issue – The Camera-Friendly, Perfectly Pixelated, Easily Downloadable Celebrity Academic – NYTimes.com
  The academy goes viral
  (tags: new.media video academia nyt)

• Beet.TV: Wall Street Journal Launches Social Network, a "Protected Network" of Real Value, Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray Says
  WSJ launches social network that requires real names. They only allow folks who have paid onto the site w/ a credit card and therefore have a verifiable name to comment.

  There are obvious downsides to this (less commenting, less comfort saying what's on your mind), but obvious upsides: whatever community starts to exist there could become quite a powerful and reliable asset.

  (tags: wsj community comments new.media newspaper)
• CJR: CJR Video: Bill Grueskin Discusses Trends in Journalism
  Nice, but relatively basic speech. Shoutout for TPM at minute 20.
  (tags: cjr journalism college new.media newspaper education)

• The Scoreboard: Monday, Sept. 15 – mediabistro.com: TVNewser
  Maddow wins! Woooooo.
  (tags: msm msnbc metrics television rachel.maddow)
• Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : The Gawker Exclusive
  So basically Gawker takes faux-controversial stands for freedom of info as a way to gin up controversy about its posts and make money. Lucrative assholery dressed up as admirable and brave!
  (tags: gawker new.media finance advertising metrics)

• This <I>Bitch</i> Needs Saving – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Editors make a direct pitch via YouTube for donations to keep the feminist publication alive.
  (tags: feminism gender magazines finance advertising)
• Count the Lies – McCainPedia
  A wiki for McCain lies brought to you by the Democratic Party! What a fun chaotic moment we live in.
  (tags: wiki mccain sarah.palin politics obama lying democrats)
• …My heart’s in Accra » Parochialism and cultural export… or why Titanic is France’s best-grossing film
  Interesting post from Ethan on cultural importing and exporting as a measure of homophily and xenophilia.
  (tags: xenophilia homophily ethan.zuckerman new.media mapping metrics movies)
• NBC should pull MSNBC out from under the NBC News umbrella – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  'Ben Grossman's suggestion: "Put it in the cable group alongside USA and Bravo and all its other money-printing brands that are carrying the NBCU portfolio. …With one move, MSNBC would be free to pursue the borderline-brilliant programming strategy that has elevated the network, while at the same time protecting the venerable NBC News brand, which is a bit under siege following the loss of Tim Russert and the silliness that occurred during the conventions."'
  (tags: msnbc television finance msm romenesko)
• Michael Tomasky: The logic of US politics | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  Jesus that's depressing.
  (tags: race class culture.war politics obama sarah.palin mccain 08)
• Time.com Redesign at //nedward.org
  I really don't agree that this looks good. It looks like a site from the late 90s, washed out and overwhelmed with text.
  (tags: design time new.media msm)

• Spinewatch: Can Link Journalism Change How the Media Covers the Presidential Election Campaign? – Publishing 2.0
  Very cool:

  "Spinewatch is a newsgroup and link bank for campaign 2008 stories of a certain narrowly-defined type. Here, we keep track of reporting from the mainstream media where the press can be seen going further than it has traditionally been willing to go in describing untruths, calling out lies, and reporting clearly on statements at odds with well established facts. Even at the risk of saying that one side is worse than the other or one candidate is actually lying. A good spinewatch story is often marked by the absence of qualification, a boldness in categorization (”out of bounds!”) and a refusal to artificially balance the account when the facts themselves point one way."

  (tags: jay.rosen new.media msm blogging truthiness journalism publishing2.0 tagging)
• On Big Day, Slate Launches ‘The Big Money’ | paidContent.org
  Quite a day to launch.
  (tags: finance new.media slate blogging video paid.content)
• RedState: In Praise Of Community Organizing
  A conservative defends organizing.
  (tags: red.state organizing 08 sarah.palin obama)
• Creation Myth by John B. Judis – What Barack Obama won't tell you about his community organizing past.
  A brilliant piece about the ways in which Obama became disillusioned with the principles of organizing and went into politics.

  This transition, with the exception of this piece and Lizza's New Yorker piece, has been badly underreported and is ripe for exploration when it comes to social change questions. Judis does a fascinating job here.

  (tags: tnr politics organizing obama chicago alinsky john.judis)
• Probe into how Google mix-up caused $1 billion run on United – Times Online
  Wow. Bad metadata crashed a stock. Pretty stunning.
  (tags: new.media tagging google finance)
• Joho the Blog » Echo chambers: The meme that will not die
  David Weinberger on the echo chamber debates.
  (tags: homophily new.media blogging)
• David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
  The politics of empathy, perfectly argued. It is not just a moral idealism, it's an effort to step outside of our own subjectivity in a way that will allow us to see the capital T Truth.
  (tags: david.foster.wallace empathy academia education)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » The beast
  Jarvis on Tina Brown's "The Beast." She's saying some smart things about aggregation, but we'll see…
  (tags: buzzmachine jeff.jarvis the.beast aggregation new.media)
• Planting the Rightroots – The Atlantic
  Nailed it:

  "What the Paul and Huckabee campaigns had in common was an embattled spirit, a sense of outrage against the powers that be. Jon Henke, one of Patrick Ruffini’s partners at The Next Right, argues that a “unifying grievance”—like the netroots’ opposition to the Iraq War—is essential to mobilizing a party’s base. After years in power, this is something the GOP as a whole conspicuously lacks.

  Ruffini is well aware of this problem. Outrage is the logistical backbone of any political movement, he told me—it’s the equivalent of Wal-Mart’s supply chain. No outrage, no ActBlue. No outrage, no Daily Kos. No outrage, no Obama. "

  (tags: new.politics atlantic.monthly new.media blogging next.right)

• Promising ‘Change’ For Newspapers’ Ad Revenue, Politico.com Launches Ad Network | paidContent.org
  Key point: this is not about advertising (or at least not primarily), it's Politico's play to be THE wire service for political news.
  (tags: syndication ap politico advertising new.media newspaper)
• Liberal Blogs Assail Anchor Changes – washingtonpost.com
  We are news.
  (tags: new.media blogging wapo msnbc)

• CNN Heavily Promoting Twitter On Air, Making Big Moves in Social Media
  Huh. Still an early embrace, but seems sincere.
  (tags: cnn new.media mashable journalism twitter)

• Why Bother? – David Frum's Diary on National Review Online
  David Frum makes a fascinating argument that Palin's people need to take their case to the media and other policy elites because, just like Bush, you can only "go straight to the people" for so long. At a certain point, you need allies and to have persuaded that first inner ring of media and policy influentials that you're worth fighting for.
  (tags: david.frum national.review sarah.palin msm)
• Michael Hammer, Business Writer, Dies at 60 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com
  Sad news. A great man.
  (tags: friends nyt obit)

• Philips Demoing Net TV – When Will Web TV Work On The Sofa? | paidContent.org
  TV? The internet? Newpapers? In the end, there will be only one.
  (tags: new.media video paid.content)
• The Media Equation – In Denver, a Thousand Little Pieces – NYTimes.com
  Apparently our 2 people were so awesome the NYTs thought we had 9. TPM STRONG LIKE BULL!
  (tags: tpm conventions new.media nyt msm newspaper blogging)
• Journalismism: Desperate Denver Journos Just Reporting on Each Other
  Too many journalists with too much time on their hands turn their cameras on each other.
  (tags: new.media journalism gawker)

• In Between The Conventions: Politico Positions Itself As ‘The ESPN Of Politics’—Yes We Can? | paidContent.org
  Building an ad network. These numbers (uniques, Obama ads) are pretty clearly wrong. Amazing how much bad metric info gets repeated in the business mags.
  (tags: new.media politico finance advertising metrics)
• <I>Atlantic</I> Shifts Tide With Hires – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Moving online more and more.
  (tags: finance new.media atlantic.monthly advertising)

• Banksy: Banksy Does New Orleans
  Great stuff.
  (tags: new.orleans banksy art gawker)
• Daily Kos: Words
  Word bubbles! Sweet.
  (tags: visualization new.media daily.kos conventions)

• Daily Kos: Words
  Word bubbles! Sweet.
  (tags: visualization new.media daily.kos conventions)
• Tropic Blunder: Convention Pits Texting vs. Press | The New York Observer
  Lotta reporters, not very much news.
  (tags: msm conventions journalism)
• Political Coverage That's All a-Twitter
  WaPo piece on the journalistic Twitterati.
  (tags: twitter conventions journalism new.media wapo)

• techPresident – Blogger + NokiaN95 + Qik = New, Critical Journalism? Or, More of the Same?
  Micah gives us a nice shout out.
  (tags: mobile tpm video pdf micah.sifry conventions)
• We Magazine – Global Voices Online
  A great interview w/ Ethan Zuckerman who is, as always, thoughtful and challenging about the opportunities and failures of global new media.
  (tags: new.media global.voices ethan.zuckerman empathy homophily video)
• Netroots push back against MSM 'bias' – Michael Calderone – Politico.com
  Apparently liberal bloggers think the mainstream media (msm?) is unfair. Thanks Politico!
  (tags: politico bias msm new.media blogging obama 08 daily.kos tpm huffpo open.left eric,alterman)
• Crowd Funding – A Different Way to Pay for the News You Want – NYTimes.com
  Decent story. I'm quite skeptical of this as a model of success, especially because it's so ad hoc that you can't establish a beat or a profressional reputation. I'm all for experimentation though, so will be fun to watch.
  (tags: new.media crowd.sourcing journalism nyt)
• Re: How can the media more effectively cover the political conventions? – Big Think
  15,000 journolists going to Denver, more than 5 times the number if delegates. And their coverage isn't even particularly good.

  What do they want to teach us?

  (tags: journalism msm jay.rosen new.media video big.think)

TPM friend Bill Scher interviews TPMCafe regular Steve Clemons while soon-to-be TPM staffer Al Shaw streams the video from his iPhone will his father Michael Shaw of the wonderful BAGnewsNotes snaps a photo.

Super meta.

Photo credit: Michael Shaw of BAGnewsNotes.

• What Obama’s Text Message Campaign Reveals – GigaOM
  Nice rundown on the smart marketing of the text-the-veep campaign.
  (tags: gigaom mobile new.politics obama new.media)
• techPresident – Why I'm Not Going to Denver or Minneapolis
  Micah makes me feel better about not being there.
  (tags: new.media pdf conventions democrats journalism micah.sifry)
• Of Mammals, Dinosaurs, Business Models and Blogs – Daily Kos
  SusanG could not be more right: WHY IS EVERYONE WASTING MONEY SENDING REPORTERS TO A STAGED EVENT!? Link to the people there, don't blow your budget on bullshit.
  (tags: new.media finance msm greed stupidity daily.kos hyperlinks)
• The Year of the Political Blogger Has Arrived – NYTimes.com
  Awesome picture of Phil.
  (tags: new.media blogging democrats nyt)

• Get A Free Haircut – Fashion Styling 2.0 – Crowd-Sourced Hairstyling
  Some idiot thinks he's being very web 2.0ish. He's just being an idiot.
  (tags: collaboration web2.0 crowd.sourcing hair)
• Hearts A-Twitter Over Obama V.P. Text – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com
  The twitterati wait with quivering thumbs.
  (tags: twitter mobile obama 08 nyt)
• The Obama 15 | The American Prospect
  Clever piece aggregating bios and profiles of Obama's top advisors.
  (tags: obama politics prospect hyperlinks new.media 08)
• …My heart’s in Accra » You go to war with the data you have
  Ethan Zuckerman on homophily/polarization research. V. important.
  (tags: empathy partisanship new.media blogging ethan.zuckerman)
• Flickr Photo Download: The Conversation Prism
  A map of social media. Kind of. Mostly just a colorful list of web 2.0 companies randomly clumped.
  (tags: new.media web2.0 visualization design marketing)

• …My heart’s in Accra » The Economist visits with three digital nomads
  Very cool.
  (tags: mobile economist new.media ethan.zuckerman)
• No, Tim. We’re Not As Bad As The New York Times
  Arrington responds to Tim O'Reilly's concern that websites are only linking in. It's basic economics, Tim.
  (tags: hyperlinks techcrunch new.media blogging finance metrics)
• Obama's Wide Web – From YouTube to Text Messaging, Candidate's Team Connects to Voters
  Great profile of the Obama web team
  (tags: new.media new.politics obama youtube facebook social.networking 08 video mobile wapo)
• US: Mobile news market nearing maturity, according to NYT – editorsweblog
  Mobile! The very important next step of the moment.
  (tags: mobile new.media nyt finance statistics)
• What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
  Nice list.
  (tags: new.media blogging 43.folders internet)

• The Washington Monthly – MOVING TIME….
  Kevin Drum goes to MoJo.
  (tags: mother.jones washington.monthly kevin.drum new.media blogging)
• Spectra newsreader – Josh Spear, Trendspotting
  So, apparently MSNBC spent a lot of money so that people who are on acid can enjoy reading the news.
  (tags: msnbc new.media visualization)

• Link by Link – Like Politics? Broadcast Your View for Only $6 – NYTimes.com
  A cool distributed advertising tool that I've been informally consulting for. Check it out.
  (tags: video advertising new.media nyt saysme blogging)
• Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? – O'Reilly Radar
  It's a business decision a lot need to make that may not be good for the web as a whole.
  (tags: new.media hyperlinks web2.0 advertising metrics)
• nsf.gov – NSF and the Birth of the Internet – Special Report
  Sweeet.
  (tags: internet history academia video)
• Think Progress » Colbert, Stewart viewers more well-informed than those watching O’Reilly, Dobbs.
  The evidence piles up.
  (tags: daily.show colbert funny politics metrics statistics)
• Daily Online News Use Is Up But Still Small: Pew | paidContent.org
  Always love new stats.
  (tags: metrics new.media inequality television msm newspaper paid.content)
• Meet GigaLogue, Roll Your Own NewsFeeds – GigaOM
  GigaOm allows readers to pull media in and organize around it.
  (tags: gigaom new.media rss techcrunch)

• Crosscut Seattle – The campaign for Sound Transit will be 'going Facebook'
  A great example of what the Obama campaign, like the Dean campaign before it, is leaving in local political communities: new networks and tools to build on. A family friend matches his experience working for the Mayor of Seattle and matches it up with his experience working for Obama to get a transportation proposition passed.
  (tags: new.politics obama organization transportation facebook seattle)
• Magazine Sales Push: Maghound – Portfolio.com
  TiVo for magazines? That sounds like a TERRIBLE idea. But who knows…
  (tags: magazines new.media tivo portfolio finance advertising)

• Hillary Clinton Gives <i>The Atlantic</i> Its Best Traffic Ever – mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY
  Wow, 1.3 million page views for one story. Wow.
  (tags: new.media metrics atlantic.monthly hillary email)
• Op-Ed Contributor – Why Obama Will Announce His Running Mate By Cellphone – Op-Ed – NYTimes.com
  Good piece on Obama's text message strategy.
  (tags: mobile obama garret.graff new.politics 08 nyt)