Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

James Fallows talks about Andrew Sullivan and the “ecology of news” on OTM.  Here’s the blurb:
This month saw the launch of a multimillion dollar ad campaign meant to sink President Obama’s as yet unannounced health care plan. James Fallows covered the first round in the fight over health care in 1994. He says the [...]

Letting Go of GWOT
With no armistice, surrender or fanfare a war may have quietly come to an end this week. The ‘War on Terror’ is being replaced rhetorically by the Pentagon and the president with ‘Overseas Contingency Operation.’ Political Communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson looks back at our most recent metaphorical war and what was [...]

stevenberlinjohnson.com: Old Growth Media And The Future Of News.
The metaphors we use to think about changes in media have a lot to tell us about the particular moment we’re in. McLuhan talked about media as an extension of our central nervous system, and we spent forty years trying to figure out how media was re-wiring [...]

On The Media: Transcript of “The Calculated Risk of Blogging” (October 3, 2008):
Every time bloggers hit publish they risk being sued for copyright infringement, invasion of privacy or defamation. While the risk seems small, groups like the Media Bloggers Association say frivolous lawsuits are chilling free speech in the blogosphere. So MBA founder Robert Cox [...]

The 25 Most Influential People on the Web - BusinessWeek.
Each year, we turn to readers and BusinessWeek staff for the Best of the Web list, asking them to contribute names for a list of the Intern­et’s movers and shakers. Take a look at the slide show to see which people have the most impact on [...]