LOL Bush: The president at the Olympics | World news | guardian.co.uk
Brilliant.
(tags: lolcats guardian new.media mashup bush olympics funny)
CNN to put “all-platform journalists” in ten US cities – Poynter Online – Romenesko
They’ll use laptops and internet connections! HOLY SHIT.
(tags: new.media cnn msm video romenesko)
…My heart’s in Accra » AP’s ethnography of news consumption
Interesting post [...]
YouTube – Fact Check: More Tax Deception
Obama camp puts a policy guy on YouTube to hit back against a McCain ad. He's specific, forceful ("in summary, this ad is a lie"), and seems confident. Has a campaign ever done policy rapid response like this?
(tags: new.politics obama new.media youtube economics taxes advertising obesity mccain [...]
What will blogs do when photos from big media disappear? – Poynter Online – Romenesko
It's called creative commons dumbass.
(tags: copyright photography romenesko new.media)
New Media and Development » home
Helpful resource. Looking forward to digging in on this.
(tags: new.media development mobile)
Media Nation: Paper blows pol's cover
A politician takes on pseudonimous identities while commenting on the local [...]
Politico Animal | American Journalism Review
25 million monthly pageviews is 40% of their revenue.
(tags: politico finance advertising new.media msm journalism)
Science Fiction: Orson Scott Card betrays his geek fans
The author of Ender’s Game is a homophobe?! WTF?!
(tags: fiction valleywag sexuality inequality)
MoveOn.Org Is Not as Radical as Conservatives Think
Great piece by Chris about MoveOn transitioning between organizing models and out of opposition.
(tags: moveon netroots thenation chris.hayes organizing new.politics)
A Family of Readers | New York Times Video
An interesting video on generational divides in media consumption.
(tags: new.media msm nyt video)
Male prime-time cable news guests outnumber women nearly 70-30% [...]
SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?
A good post summarizing what I think is a vital point about blogging: many good blogs will simply be conversational and action hubs for people making money doing something else.
(tags: blogging new.media sarah.lacy advertising hyperlinks)
Moving Towards Each Other: More on NYT vs WSJ | paidContent.org
The New York Times quietly [...]
On Line – Off the Bus, but Growing Thousands Strong – Katharine Q. Seelye- Politics – Election 2008 – NYTimes.com
Great story on HuffPo’s Off the Bus distributed reporting project. Go Amanda!
(tags: new.media huffpo amanda.michel nyt 08)
Jane Mayer on The Dark Side – Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
Deeply depressing and [...]
Hasbro Finally Sues Makers Of Scrabulous; Invokes DMCA To Get It Removed | paidContent.org
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(tags: scrabble facebook copyright)
Politico and RealClearPolitics Team Up – mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC
Why wouldn’t politico just do this in house? Odd. Interesting, but odd.
(tags: politico new.media real.clear.politics blogging 08)
Newspapers in convention cities to run Politico stories – Poynter Online – Romenesko
They’re [...]
Think Progress » Scarborough Defends McCain, Criticizes Bloggers ‘Eating Cheetos’ In Their ‘Underwear’
I do eat cheetos! I do!
(tags: morning.joe iraq blogging msnbc)
GOP losing the new-media war – Jonathan Martin – Politico.com
Interesting Politico story about how TPM and HuffPo are running circles around the Right. Huzzah!
(tags: tpm huffpo new.media msm politico 08)
The Commentocracy rises online [...]
HuffPost And GQ Throw Party At Netroots Nation (PHOTOS)
It was a pretty good party.
(tags: netroots partying huffpo gq)
Times Higher Education – All the privileged must have prizes
A vicious and insightful piece on the corruption and privilege of a Harvard education (written by a guy who taught in my department, was my thesis advisor’s roommate).
(tags: harvard [...]
AFTERNOON INTERLUDE: IS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY A-COMING? – EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
A great panel on what the left needs to do to prepare to govern. There’s a really long question at the end… that would be me making trouble.
(tags: ezra.klein progressive.movement new.politics economics health inequality)
PI at NRN: Jeremy Bird, Obama’s Ohio General Election [...]
The Political Scene: Making It: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Quite a grounding piece on Obama. The man is, in the end, incredibly ambitious and calculating.
(tags: obama 08 new.yorker ryan.lizza organizing)
Media: Bloomberg sale spells profitable future of journalism by numbers
Damn, I guess good to see someone’s making money.
(tags: bloomberg new.media valleywag msm finance)
GOP Asks Net For Advice, Paulites Answer the Call … and Answer, and Answer | Threat Level from Wired.com
Ha. The Paul folks are gonna be a pain in the GOP digital side [...]
Is Obama Investing Massively in Field Organizing? | The Next Right
Why yes, it seems he is!
(tags: organizing obama next.right new.politics)
Hipsters in Space // Current
V. funny.
(tags: hipsters funny current video)
Morning in America – Where else could a red-meat, right-wing congressman like Joe Scarborough reinvent himself as the liberal’s favorite talk-show host?
Interesting piece.
(tags: morning.joe nymag msnbc television msm)
The Real Banksy? – The Plank
The unmasking of a guerilla artist.
(tags: new.yorker art banksy)
Poynter Online – Romenesko
“Why aren’t they much worse, when the imminent demise of newspapers seems to be all we ever hear about? The short answer is that reading customers aren’t deserting newspapers at anything approaching the rate that advertising customers are.”
(tags: newspaper finance new.media msm romenesko advertising metrics)
Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million [...]
I’m finally getting in the swing of this vacation thing. Book, dog, girlfriend blogging under the umbrella on the back deck. Life is good.
The State of the Web – Summer 2008
Funny
(tags: art blogging funny)
WPer: Merging our print, online newsrooms is a good idea – Poynter Online – Romenesko
Apparently WaPo thinks this whole internet thing might be a big deal. Who knew?
(tags: new.media romenesko msm newspaper wapo)
Cooper: MSM, New Media are in a marriage of convenience – Poynter Online – Romenesko
EVERYONE RELIES ON EVERYONE ONLINE! THAT’S THE [...]
The Facebooker Who Friended Obama – NYTimes.com
A profile of Chris Hughes and the new media team. Seems like they wanted to use Hughes/Facebook as the hook but then couldn’t say much about his actual contributions.
(tags: new.politics social.networking facebook my.bo obama nyts)
Blogging For Dollars: Sick of blogging? Data says you can quit now
Huh. Are [...]
WSJ.com Enjoying Significant Bump in Traffic…With Subs Intact
Note the difference between unique growth and pageview growth. They’re getting a lot more distributed readership, not daily readers.
(tags: new.media metrics wsj newspaper)
Google Talk: Google Talk Launches for iPhone; Works Great in Sidebar
So. Fucking. Cool.
(tags: instant.messaging google life.hacker)
Crooked Timber » » Blogs, Participation and Polarization
Henry’s paper on homophily and participation. Need to read the whole thing still.
(tags: new.media blogging ideology partisanship politics homophily)
…My heart’s in Accra » Polymeme: Architecting the way out of echo chambers?
Very cool [...]
Dana Goldstein: So, You Want to be a Magazine Journalist.
A nifty FAQ for aspiring journalists.
(tags: journalism career new.media magazines dana.goldstein)
Personal Democracy Forum – PdF2008: Edwards, Lessig, Zittrain, Pesce Keynotes Are Up on Pdf.Blip.tv
Wish your boss let you go be a tech politics nerd for two days? Watch it online!
(tags: pdf video new.politics)
Think Progress » [...]
Washington Post considers launching new political website – Poynter Online – Romenesko
A good idea. Too bad the guys who had it left and created Politico.
(tags: wapo politico new.media politics msm newspaper)
