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Love, honor ... and blog: Musings on marriage are surprise hit - Love & Relationships

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Miami Herald - By Ana Veciano-Suarez - Oct. 14 (News) - Couple in Miami is finding surprise success in blogging about happiness.

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The Rise of the Professional Blogger

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Atlantic Monthly - By Benjamin Carlson - Sep. 13 (Opinion) - Today, the romantic notion that solitary, untamed bloggers are running the Web is more fantasy than fact—nearly as apocryphal as old myths about stoic Western sheriffs killing 11 outlaws with six bullets.

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Mining the Web for Feelings, Not Facts

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Alex Wright - Aug. 24 (News Report) - Computers may be good at crunching numbers, but can they crunch feelings? The rise of blogs and social networks has fueled a bull market in personal opinion: reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression. For computer scientists, this fast-growing mountain of data is opening a tantalizing window onto the collective consciousness of Internet users. An emerging field known as sentiment analysis is taking shape around one of the computer world’s unexplored frontiers: translating the vagaries of human emotion into hard data. This is more than just an interesting programming exercise. For many businesses, online opinion has turned into a kind of virtual currency that can make or break a product in the marketplace.

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Reading the messages behind Afghan election posters

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - By Scott Bohlinger - Aug. 19 (News Analysis) - Scott Bohlinger is a political analyst and writer who has lived in Afghanistan since 2006. He works for a non-governmental organization in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan and has traveled extensively in the Middle East. In the run-up to this Thursday’s elections in Afghanistan, I've noticed a menagerie of political artwork and iconography. Every surface is increasingly plastered [...]

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New Facebook iPhone App ’Pretty Much Done’

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By MG Siegler - Aug. 08 (News Report) - As one of the most popular applications on Apple’s popular iPhone platform, a lot of users are eagerly awaiting the next version of the app. And that wait is almost over.

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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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Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture and Dissent

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Berkman Center - Jun. 16 (Poll) - We conducted a study of the Arabic language blogosphere using link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs. We identified a base network of approximately 35,000 active blogs, created a network map of the 6,000 most connected blogs, and with a team of Arabic speakers hand coded 4,000 blogs. The goal for the study was to produce a baseline assessment of the networked public sphere in the Arab Middle East, and its relationship to a range of emergent issues, including politics, media, religion, culture, and international affairs.

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CNN’s Coverage of Iran Protests Criticized

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Jun. 14 (News Report) - The performance of the American cable news, especially CNN, spawned an online protest by thousands on Saturday and Sunday, showing that viewers can try to pressure news organizations about their coverage in real time via the Internet. Fox News Channel and MSNBC also were said to have covered the protests in limited ways.

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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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Free the Kazakhstan Internet

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Nation - Apr. 27 (News Report) - During my brief time in Kazakhstan, I got the impression that the government is trying to move beyond its repressive past. The country, a former Soviet republic, also seems to be an island of stability in a volatile part of the world. It would send a strong and encouraging message if the government drops its proposal to censor speech online.

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The Serpent and the Platypus

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

southernfriedscience.com - By Southern Fried Scientist (Andrew) - Apr. 19 (News Report) - Pound for pound, convergence is the most persuasive evidence for the truth of evolution out there; different lineages finding novel paths to the same solution. While I mostly talk about convergences in morphology, genetic convergence is often even more fascinating. Enter the bizarre case of the serpent and the platypus.

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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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‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Claire Cain Miller, Brad Stone - Apr. 14 (Special Report) - If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.

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arXiv blog: The evolution of scientific ideas

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By arXiv - Apr. 13 (News Report) - Science is an evolving discipline. . . . how exactly are these fields changing? And what does it tell us about the evolution of ideas and the changing nature of science?

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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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Bloggers Ponder the Decline of Religion, Economic Prosperity and Newspapers

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Journalism.org - By Tom Rosenstiel - Mar. 20 (News Analysis) - The online conversation last week was strikingly different than the mainstream news agenda. While the traditional press focused on economic villains-such as AIG and Bernard Madoff-bloggers largely eschewed partisan squabbling and parsing of details for a more abstract and far-reaching discussion. As the economy struggled, a major newspaper shut down and a survey highlighted the diminishing appeal of organized religion, bloggers and social media pondered the dramatic social changes that might be taking place and what the implications could be. The top subject was the decline in people claiming an affiliation with organized religion, as documented in a new study. This storyline made up 30% of the most linked to stories by blogs and social media sites for the week of March 9-13 according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. The second largest story, at 24% of the links, involved the continuing problems in the U.S. economy. While some of the attention was focused on government actions, many bloggers focused on a prediction by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman that the current crisis would change the growth model that has been the basis of the U.S. economy for the past 50 years.

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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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Imagining Newspapers of the Future

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Lynn Klyde-Silverstein, Elliot Neaman, Tim Straus, Martin Kimel, Joel Kramer, Jessica Wanke, Louise Dufresne - Jan. 31 (Comment) - Re “News You Can Endow,” by David Swensen and Michael Schmidt (see link), which says endangered newspapers can be saved if we “turn them into nonprofit, endowed institutions — like colleges and universities”: The writers don’t seem troubled by the rule that endowed status would prevent newspapers from attempting to “influence legislation.” Candidate endorsements are not the only thing this would suppress. Wouldn’t this also prevent newspapers from editorializing about any pending legislation? Isn’t that one of the most important jobs of a newspaper?

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The Web Guru

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Observer - By John Koblin - Nov. 25 (News Report) - The blogger, professor and media consultant has, through his Web sites, seminars, journalism classes, panel-discussion appearances and the occasional flame-war, preached for some time now the gospel of New Media. These days, it’s taking hold — and not just among the patchwork constituency of media studies majors, technophile utopians and media malcontents left and right.

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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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The End of 'Objectivity' in New Journalism Era: A Good Thing?

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Editor & Publisher - By Joe Strupp - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - Paulson's challenge is one that more and more print journalists are confronting as they are asked to write news stories, blog items, do analysis (often minutes after an event has occurred) and, in many cases, provide commentary for radio, television, and even online outlets. As newspaper Web sites blend in more with blogs that do not hold to the same journalistic rules, there is greater pressure to "write like them" — and sometimes cut corners on the principles of objectivity and balance that have been the oft-stated mainstay, for better or worse, of newspaper news coverage.

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The Rightosphere Copes With Defeat

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Pajamas Media - By John Hawkins - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - And yet, the most common reaction across the right side of the blogosphere was either a congratulations to Obama, a recognition that having the first black president was a historic moment for America, or some combination thereof.

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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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Ashin Mettacara: Burma, Myanmar: 2008 voting has closed; view the Winners

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

http://www.ashinmettacara.org/ - By Ashin Mettacara - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - Ashin Mettacara is an independent blogger monk from Burma who is contributing to OpEdNews with the aim of spreading news to the whole world about the crisis in Burma.

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