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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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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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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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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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‘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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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 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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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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New media feels heat after Apple misstep

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Ben Arnoldy - Oct. 08 (News Report) - Oakland, Calif. - A promo for CNN's citizen journalism site, iReport.com, reads: "You won't believe what people are uploading." Maybe readers should take that literally. An anonymous writer posted a false story to the site claiming that Apple Inc.'s CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack, sending the company's stock tumbling Friday. The Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed Henry Blodget Monday that it was investigating the circumstances surrounding the article. Unlike stories on CNN's main site, most content on iReport.com can be uploaded by anyone, without editing. The erroneous piece stayed up for more than three hours – long enough to bounce around the blogosphere – before an Apple spokesperson quashed the rumor. Citizen journalism, or user-generated content, has proved successful enough to argue against abandoning it over snafus like this, say new media experts. Rather, the episode serves as a public reminder that "news" now includes both traditional journalism and a crowd-sourced model that treats verification as a public process, not a prerequisite for publishing. Both models have their place, says David Ardia, head of the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, but users must give the crowd-sourced model time to work. "If you are consuming this news when it first comes out, you have to recognize that the fact-checking function hasn't happened yet."

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McCain Strategist Blasts Media

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Howard Kurtz - Sep. 02 (News Report) - Sen. John McCain's top campaign strategist accused the news media Tuesday of being "on a mission to destroy" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin by displaying "a level of viciousness and scurrilousness" in pursuing questions about her personal life.

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Netroots push back against MSM 'bias'

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Michael Calderone - Aug. 25 (Special Report) - Gone are the days when only the right howled about bias and malice from network anchors and star political reporters. What began roughly a decade ago as frustration from Democrats over coverage of President Bill Clinton's impeachment and adulterous escapades has morphed into an informally organized rapid response network, ready to pounce on any and all perceived media slights against Barack Obama.

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Burma: Suu Kyi shows no to UN envoy

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Op Ed News - By Ashin Mettacara - Aug. 23 (News Report) - Aung San Suu Kyi shows no to UN envoy

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The Kremlin's Virtual Army

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Evgeny Morozov - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - As Russian tanks lumbered southward over mountainous Ossetian terrain, Russian netizens were seeking to dominate the digital battlefield.

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Appealing to Bloggers' Influence, Gore Asks for Help in Promoting Energy Challenge

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Katherine Q. Seelye - Jul. 20 (News Report) - AUSTIN, Tex. -- Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, was asked a question here at a bloggers conference about energy. Ms. Pelosi glanced at her BlackBerry, noting that she had an e-mail message from a friend on that very subject. With that, the voice of former Vice President Al Gore came over the public address system, as if reading the e-mail message: "Dear Nancy." This created a sea of quizzical looks in the audience, then gasps, cheers and a standing ovation as Mr. Gore strode on stage. The surprise appearance produced the first electric moment at the conference, the Netroots Nation, an ever-widening group of progressive bloggers whose major interests -- the war in Iraq, the environment and technology -- mesh well with Mr. Gore's current pursuits. Indeed, many in the crowd of about 3,000, most of whom are supporting Senator Barack Obama, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, were overheard saying they wished Mr. Gore were running for president. As waves of cheers washed over the cavernous convention center, Mr. Gore said to Ms. Pelosi, "We ought to take that act on the road." "We are on the road," she replied. "Well, I feel right at home here, I'll tell you," he said. Mr. Gore, later answering questions from the audience, said he would not accept a role in the next administration. The best use of his talent and experience, he said, is "to focus on trying to enlarge the political space" within which politicians can address the climate crisis.

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Bloggers: Big Media Is Watching

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

Business Week - By Peter Burrows - Jun. 26 (Special Report) - the dustup between the AP and bloggers was just an early skirmish in what's likely to become a protracted war over how and where media content is published online. On one side are bloggers and other Web sites eager to ensure continued access to information. On the other are media companies intent on controlling or cashing in on the dissemination of their stories, videos, and other digital media. One reason: For the first time, content owners are able to track exactly where and how their words and images show up, thanks to an emerging class of technology called content recognition systems.

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Netroots feel jilted by Obama's FISA stand

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

The Politico - By Carrie Budoff Brown - Jun. 26 (News Analysis) - But with his support of a government surveillance bill that offers retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies -- a bill that he vowed last year to filibuster -- the honeymoon has ended. Disappointed over his position on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the online activists feel jilted and betrayed and have taken to questioning his progressive credentials. One prominent blogger, Atrios, has even given him the moniker "Wanker of the Day."

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Huffington Post to expand into local news across the US

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Jemima Kiss - Jun. 20 (News Report) - "We are aspiring to be a newspaper in that we want to covering all news, not just the political blogging the way we began," said Huffington, speaking at Guardian News & Media's internal Future of Journalism conference.

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Filter the Best Stuff to the Front Page

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

Huffington Post - By Jay Rosen - Jun. 16 (News Analysis) - Sites like NewsTrust take it for granted that expansion of the media space is a good thing. But filtering and forwarding systems must keep pace. The better we are at that--finding the good stuff, forwarding it to eager users--the easier it is to relax and accept that anyone can be a producer, or that good contributions can come from anywhere. [Disclosure: This article is about NewsTrust and its recent partnership with Huffington Post's OffTheBus project, which the author is associated with]

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The Internet and the 2008 Election

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

Pew Research - Jun. 16 (Poll) - A record-breaking 46% of Americans have used the internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize others. And Barack Obama's backers have an edge in the online political environment.

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