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Daily Kos: Markos Moulitsas's website changed politics

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

City Pages - By Jessica Lussenhop - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - In a faded casino in Las Vegas, venerable New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd zeroed in on a man she'd decided would be the topic of her next column. Markos Moulitsas, founder of Dailykos.com courtesy of Kos Media Markos Moulitsas, founder of Dailykos.com Howard Dean was the darling of Daily Kos before his ill-advised scream AP Photo/Paul Sancya Howard Dean was the darling of Daily Kos before his ill-advised scream Related Content * Tim Pawlenty debates on Fox: What he said May 6, 2011 * Tim Pawlenty calls Obama a "Doofus," but photo comparison tells the real story May 31, 2011 * Michele Bachmann wants to be prez so she can kill "the crown jewel of socialism" May 31, 2011 * Bachmann flunks Wall Street bailout history, hammers Obama rather than Bush April 19, 2011 * Michele Bachmann paid Bush speech writers $5,000 April 20, 2011 More About * Markos Moulitsas * Howard Dean * Ned Lamont * Science and Technology * Internet The man, a baby-faced political blogger with darting brown eyes, faced a volley of questions from Dowd: What future did he envision for old-school journos like herself? What did he make of the fact that after only two years of blogging at Wonkette, Ana Marie Cox had just landed a gig at Time magazine?

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How a handful of liberal bloggers are bringing down the Obama presidency

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

peterdaou.com - By Peter Daou - Sep. 27 (Opinion) - With each passing day, I’m beginning to realize that the crux of the problem for Obama is a handful of prominent progressive bloggers, among them Glenn Greenwald, John Aravosis, Digby, Marcy Wheeler and Jane Hamsher*.

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Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ReadWriteWeb - By Richard MacManus - Sep. 16 (Review) - One of the more interesting startup battles in recent times has been Tumblr vs. Posterous, two light blogging services that make it easy for anyone to publish 'found' things very quickly. However for all of Posterous' hard work and bluster, it's been Tumblr that has grown exponentially over the past year.

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New Study: Liberals More Open Than Conservatives Online

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Ari Melber - Apr. 28 (Opinion) - All blogs were not created equal. Many liberal blogs, it turns out, were created with platforms to host multiple authors and share attention with guest contributors. Conservative blogs, in contrast, often use technologies highlighting a single author--while consigning guests to the digital equivalent of a newspaper's classified section.

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Froomkin hired by Huffington Post

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Jul. 07 (Opinion) - In yet another sign of how online media outlets are strengthening as their older establishment predecessors are struggling to survive, The Huffington Post has hired Dan Froomkin to be its Washington Bureau Chief and regular columnist/blogger. Froomkin will oversee a staff of four five reporters and an Assistant Editor, guide The Huffington Post's Washington reporting, and write at least two posts per week to be featured on its main page and Politics page. I learned last night of the hiring and spoke to both Arianna Huffington and Froomkin this morning. Under still-unclear circumstances, which executives refuse to discuss even with their own Ombudsman, Froomkin was fired by The Washington Post a little more than two weeks ago after writing an online column for almost six years that was one of that newspaper's most popular. Almost immediately upon the reporting of Froomkin's firing, screenwriter Nora Ephron, an Editor-at-Large for The Huffington Post, emailed Huffington with a one-line note: "I hope we're hiring him." Within hours, Huffington called Froomkin, met with him in Washington last week, and a deal was finalized this week. That was just one of numerous overtures Froomkin received from various media outlets interested in hiring him (Salon was one such outlet expressing preliminary interest, but both Froomkin and Salon believed that much of what I do here already overlaps with much of the work he does).

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Update to the update on “Hey, Limbaugh” 5/8/2009

Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

agweb.com - By Steve Cornett - May. 08 (Opinion) - In an earlier update, we wondered why Rush Limbaugh is stonewalling on his support for the Humane Society of the United States. One response accuses this reporter of not listening to Mr. Limbaugh, offering the challenge, “Listen, and then we can talk about where he stands on the issues.” Of course I listen to Limbaugh, as does just about everybody I know. I listen and mostly I agree. His support of the animal rights agenda has lowered him in my opinion, and by a lot. No, wait. It’s not his support for the movement. It’s his failure to own up and explain why he thinks that way.

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Public Transit Users More Likely to Reach Physical Activity Targets

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

obesitypanacea.blogspot.com - By Travis Saunders - Apr. 17 (Interview) - By building activity into your daily routine, you can ensure that you’re getting at least some physical activity on even the busiest days. . . . Although taking public transit may not seem like the most obvious way to increase your physical activity levels, a recent study by Ugo Lachapelle and Larry Frank at the University of British Columbia suggests that this might be the case.

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Rosen's Flying Seminar In The Future of News

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Press Think - By Jay Rosen - Mar. 26 (Opinion) - The pace quickened after Clay Shirky's Thinking the Unthinkable. Here's my best-of from a month of deep think as people came to terms with the collapse of the newspaper model, and tried looking ahead. I know these twelve links work. I tested them on Twitter. As the crisis in newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the best of these pieces via my Twitter feed. It’s part of my experiment in mindcasting, which you can read about here. Lately, the pace has picked up. A trigger was the March 13 appearance of Clay Shirky’s Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable. That essay went viral; it now has a phenomenal 686 trackbacks, making it an instant classic in the online literature about the fate of the press. As good as Shirky’s piece is (very very good, I think) “Thinking the Unthinkable” is only a piece of the puzzle, and mostly backward-pointing. That’s why I’ve collected the following links. Together, they form a kind of flying seminar on the future of news, presented in real time. (They are all from the month of March 2009.) Read all twelve and you’ll be caught up on your newspaper big think. Here they are in the order I think you should read them. If you take the seminar, feel free to leave your impressions in the comments. The “flying” part is simple: go ahead, steal these links. Spread the seminar. Get your people up to speed.

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The Beleaguered News Industry ...

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Tom Tomorrow - Mar. 09 (Cartoon) - After the last reporter files the last news story, an army of citizen journalists gamely try to fill the void.

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Internet ‘Rightroots’ Key to GOP Revival

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pajamas Media - By Jon Henke - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - For now, the goal should be to build ideological infrastructure — organically — outside the entrenched political establishment. We should build unifying grievances. We should organize ideas and then people. The Republican Party will not lead the Right out of the problems that plague the Republican Party; it will have to follow.

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The AP and CNN Get 'The Huxtable Effect' All Wrong | Media and Technology

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - Nov. 14 (Comment) - The bad thing about having a blog is that news reporters can take your theories and mangle them all to hell and publish it all over the world.

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Gay marriage opposition uses public schools as a reason for Prop 8

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

realisticlies.wordpress.com - Oct. 20 (Opinion) - Recently, the majority of commercials saying, “Yes on Prop 8,” are also saying that the reason to vote “yes” is because of our public schools. One of the big reasons homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to get married is because teachers in public schools might mention it.

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Debate Watch: What is Sarah Palin Getting Into?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Hoa Quach - Oct. 02 (Comment) - Just a few short hours until the 2008 Vice Presidential Debate and days away from Sarah Palin’s infamous interviews with Katie Couric. So, what’s expected of the Republican VP candidate tonight, as she proves to the world and American voters that she’s a superior choice to Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden?

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Voices without Votes ? Debate Watch: What is Joe Biden Up Against?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

voiceswithoutvotes.org - By Jillian York - Oct. 02 (Opinion) - Since Barack Obama selected Senator Joe Biden as his running mate just prior to the Democratic National Convention in August, little attention has been paid to the Senator from Delaware. With all of the media's attention focused on Obama himself (as well as Sarah Palin of course), little focus has been given to Biden. A few bloggers have noticed him, however.

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MSM Tensions Erupt

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Eric Alterman - Aug. 28 (Opinion) - Really? As Matt Yglesias points out , it's pretty clear how the media should treat these ads that they know to be dishonest. Use them to accurately create a pattern of dishonesty by John McCain's campaign. If Obama was putting out lies about McCain, how fast do you think the media would figure a way out of that "conundrum"? It's not like they have anything else to do here...

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Jamal Dajani: What Did Bush Really See in Putin's Eyes?

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani- The Huffington Post - Aug. 14 (Opinion) - It is very unusual in the Middle East to turn on the television or read a newspaper without finding a major story about a new development in Iraq, Lebanon, Iran, Israel and Palestine. However, this week was different.

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Fox News suffers another debate snub; bloggers take a bow

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Media Matters - By Eric Boehlert - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - Bloggers deserve the credit because the pushback they initiated was something that members of the Democratic Party had, for years, refused to do. Instead, they adopted a go-along/get-along strategy with Fox News, hoping that if they were nice (and cooperative) with Fox News, then Fox News would be nice (and cooperative) in response. Indeed, without the online campaign, do you think the head of the Democratic National Committee would have appeared on Fox News and publicly denounced its coverage as being "shockingly biased" the way Howard Dean did in May? I doubt it, since for years Democrats, and particularly the inside-the-Beltway party leaders, acquiesced.

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Afterword: the Ralph Nader lesson

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Kos - By Mike Stark - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - So why did I create the group? Why risk damaging Barack Obama's candidacy and hard-earned image of change-agent? After all, if I was convinced the prospects of success were zero, why bother organizing 22,000 people? If no good can come from the venture, why venture? I think the questions are fair and I'm going to do my best to answer them. And I'm going to answer the question by invoking Ralph Nader.

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Do Our Clothes Matter?

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

allvoices.com - By Marina - Jun. 26 (Opinion) - I am both concerned and perplexed at the choice presentation of many people participating in the planning of direct actions against neoliberal organizations and institutions around the globe.

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AP wants $2.50 a word to excerpt its stories now?

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:35:06 -0700

Hot Air - By Allahpundit - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - And you thought their PR on this subject couldn't get any worse. Must be nice to have an exemption from the same federal fair use statute every other content provider in America is governed by.

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AP, hole, dig

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Jun. 16 (Opinion) - The AP is still trying to preserve its way. But, as I often say, protection is no strategy for the future. In the story - which, note, I'm only summarizing here, without the quotes from the AP that might better state its stance (ahem) - the agency comes off like a policy ping-pong game, going back and forth:

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AP backs off -- or does it?

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard - By Scott Rosenberg - Jun. 15 (Opinion) - The "spirit of the Internet" has always been about linking and excerpting. Actually, the "spirit of the Internet" is probably even more about wholesale copying. But that spirit has always had to make tradeoffs with businesses like the AP. I hope the company's leaders continue to step back from the absurd brink they've conjured for themselves.

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Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Right Wing News - By John Hawkins - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths. Some male bloggers tend to think women get more links because they're women, some female bloggers think there's some sort of a "good ol' boys" club that keeps them from getting big, and more than a few people seem to get huffy about the whole debate.

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Sudanese Blogosphere Reaches New Milestone

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By SudaneseDrima - Feb. 17 (Opinion) - The Sudanese blogosphere is starting to build momentum. Blogs written in English are quite active now showing the genuine, diverse and raw face of Sudan to the world. On the other hand, blogs written in Arabic have mushroomed at another corner of this vast online space. They're just as important as those written in English (maybe even more important) and they're explicitly leveraging the power of the internet to practice their right to free expression.

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Ombudsmen: Journalism's last line of defense

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Jeffrey Dvorkin - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - The rise of the blogosphere and the vastness of the media criticism landscape mean that having an internal ombudsman may appear antique to cost-conscious managers in this brave new cyber-world. Certainly, the parallel functions of bloggers and ombudsmen are worth discussing. Can blogs and ombudsmen be reconciled? Can they function together? Or is this another example of turf wars in the new media? If it is, I can guess who will win.

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