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Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

Nov 13, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A YouTube channel that specialized in capturing Fox commentators' most outrageous moments has been shut down after copyright complaints from the channel. News1News was the favorite choice of plenty of left-leaning blogs and news sources seeking to poke fun at Fox, notes Gawker , which has been left with plenty of... More »

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blogosphere • YouTube • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • copyright infringement

BLOG-ON-BLOG VIOLENCE

Bigger Jerk Than Phillips?
Deadspin's AJ Daulerio

Throws whatever ties site had to journalism out window in vendetta vs. ESPN

Oct 22, 09 6:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the shadows of the Steve Phillips controversy is the reaction at Deadspin, where editor AJ Daulerio, having missed out on the scoop, appears to emptied his in-box in airing years’ worth of anonymous tips about ESPN’s seamy side. That, in turn, got its own reaction from the sports... More »

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blogosphere • ESPN • blogger • Deadspin • Steve Phillips • ESPN scandal • sports blogs

Reporter: Obama Dismissed Gay Marchers as 'Fringe'

White House takes comedians more seriously, Harwood says

Oct 12, 09 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama isn’t exactly quaking in his boots over the gay rights protesters that marched on Washington yesterday. The administration views the advocates as “part of the Internet left fringe,” CNBC correspondent John Harwood said on NBC last night. “One adviser told me, ‘those bloggers... More »

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Barack Obama • gay rights • blogosphere • Don't Ask, Don't Tell • White House • civil rights • Human Rights Campaign • Obama administration • left wing • John Harwood

(Newser) - When the editors and writers at the Onion AV Club aren’t working—which appears to be often—they have their own “favorite time-wasting” websites to frequent. A sampling:
  • CNN: "They’ve got some news there that you can read and junk," Nathan Rabin
... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • CNN • Andrew Sullivan • website • The Onion • procrastination • The Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse • Geekologie • Fuckyeahanimalswithcasts

(Newser) - If you think blogs are useless, think again: Scientists have developed a “hedonometer,” or happiness gauge, that analyzes personal online statements to pinpoint the overall contentment of the US population on a given day, the Discovery Channel reports. The program looks at sentences beginning with “I feel”... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • computer programming • blogging • blog • scientific study • happiness • Twitter

(Newser) - The blogosphere might not be the future of news sprung fully formed from the corpse of old media, Michael Massing writes in the New York Review of Books, but neither is it “parasite” feeding on newspapers. “The practice of journalism, far from being leeched by the Web, is... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • newspaper • blogging • Andrew Sullivan • New York Review of Books • old media • breaking news

Obama Asks Bloggers to Pressure Hill
on Health Care

Leaves open reconciliation option

Jul 21, 09 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama unleashed the hounds last night, asking progressive bloggers to pressure Congress on health care reform. “There is a default position of inertia here in Washington,” he said on an invitation-only conference call. Lawmakers need to feel the same urgency and desperation ordinary Americans feel, he said,... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • blogosphere • blogger • health care reform • liberal • liberal media

ANALYSIS

 Web Beats TV 
 to Jackson Fatigue 


Jul 3, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Television is still churning out Michael Jackson-related content, but Web surfers quickly lost interest after his death, Jeff Jarvis writes for BuzzMachine. “We had consuming interest in Jackson when the news came out but that quickly faded,” Jarvis writes, citing Blogpulse and Google Trends data on Jackson traffic.... More »

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entertainment • television • social networking • blogosphere • Internet • YouTube • Michael Jackson • Twitter • cable news

(Newser) - Traditional media are having a tough time covering the Iranian election fallout, but fear not: Web 2.0 is up to the task. The Washington Post runs down the best destinations for those hoping to stay on top of the situation:
  • PicFog.com: Current, unedited photos containing "
... More »

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Iran • blogosphere • Web 2.0 • Facebook • Flickr • Twitter • blogs • Iranian election

OPINION

 It's a World Wide Web, 
 But Bloggers Keep It Narrow 

Linkability is key, blogger writes

Jun 9, 09 3:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - While the blogosphere is generally considered a free-for-all medium where any topic or opinion is fair game, it’s actually governed by narrow rules, Jeremy Beer writes on Front Porch Republic. “It is uncommon for someone to write a piece about something that is not immediately pertinent to the... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • blogging

(Newser) - Software that would automatically rate the credibility of blogs on a scale from highly credible to “little credible” is in the works in Austria, Ars Technica reports. The program analyzes the distribution of words in successive blog posts and also compares topics against stories covered in the mainstream media... More »

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media • blogosphere • Internet • Austria • blogger • software applications • credibility

(Newser) - Before newspapers held sway over politicians and maintained monopolies under federal anti-trust exemptions, they were a service people were willing to pay for, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post. Even if “technology is on the verge of removing some traditionally vital organs of the body politic,” they... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • New York Times • online news • online newspapers • subsidies • newspaper industry • aggregator • investigative journalism

(Newser) - The tone of a letter from President Obama to Jacques Chirac has some in the blogosphere wondering if Obama knows that Chirac is no longer the president of France, writes Jimmy Orr in the Christian Science Monitor reports. “Doesn’t Obama ever consult his staff before acting?” one concerned... More »

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blogosphere • Nicolas Sarkozy • Jacques Chirac • France • president • George W. Bush • President Obama • letter

ANALYSIS

'Rightosphere' Hopes to Reshape GOP

Bloggers hope to catch GOP up to Democrats on harnessing the internet

Nov 18, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - The election of Barack Obama has energized conservative bloggers, who see a spell in opposition as an opportunity ideal for reshaping the party, writes Walter Alarkon for the Hill. Conservatives in the “rightosphere” are eying the progress the left’s “netroots” made during the Bush years, when sites... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • Republican • GOP • conservative • lefties • Daily Kos • right wingers • right-wing media • Huffington Post • rightosphere

ANALYSIS

Campaign Arrows Puncture Righty Mag's Lofty Rep

Still, National Review looks forward to having Dems in power after tumultuous year

Nov 17, 08 12:27 PM CST
(Newser) - The nasty tone of the presidential campaign dealt a blow to the National Review, considered the print home for conservative intellectuals and a standard-bearer for genteel debate, the New York Times reports. The death of founder William F. Buckley was followed by the ouster of his son Christopher following his... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • National Review • William F. Buckley Jr. • Christopher Buckley • David Frum • Rich Lowry

ANALYSIS

 No, Blogging Isn't Dead 

Tools like Twitter complement, rather than replace, traditional blogging, argues blogger

Oct 23, 08 8:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - A recent Wired magazine article argued that blogging is out, that mainstream media have taken the practice over, and one-time bloggers have moved on to social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. Not so, responds Allyson Kapin on Fast Company. Witness the 175,000 new blogs created daily and... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Facebook • blogging • Flickr • Twitter

 Brit Jumps Onto 
 Twitter Bandwagon 

Pop star promises to take fans where no paparazzi can with new site, micro-blog

Oct 20, 08 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - The blogosphere is, ahem, atwitter over Britney Spears’ new Web site and micro-blogging account. The pop star promises to provide fans the inside scoop via britneyspears.com and Twitter, a social-networking site allows users to post constant updates. “I’d like to welcome Britney Spears to our world,”... More »

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social networking • blogosphere • Britney Spears • blogging • Twitter

Liberal Bloggers Get Their Wish... or Do They?

Contemplating victory, onetime outsiders may feel disoriented

Jul 21, 08 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's frontrunner status has liberal bloggers wondering whether they should have been careful what they wished for. “The way it’s looking, we might actually win this thing,” said Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitas. The "Netroots" movement began as a response to a Republican-dominated Washington; the... More »

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Barack Obama • blogosphere • Obama 2008 • blog • netroots • Markos Moulitsas • blogger • Netroots Nation

New Food Blogs Take Devotion to a New Level

So-called 'cook-through' bloggers go through cookbooks recipe by recipe

May 28, 08 7:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Food blogs are usually simple things, fun and easy to create, writes Lee Gomes in the Wall Street Journal. And then there are the increasingly popular "cook-through" blogs, in which devoted chefs of all skill levels pick a book, say the French Laundry Cookbook or the Gourmet Cookbook, and... More »

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blogosphere • French cooking • cooking • blogging • recipes • cookbooks • gourmet • blogs

OPINION

 My Search Term, Myself 

Blogger ponders path Web surfers take to his threshold

Apr 21, 08 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Freud would have a field day studying Google searches, posits a blogger who tracked the terms visitors to his web page used and found a window into man's pathologies. John Kelly, a columnist on leave from the Washington Post, writes in the Guardian about "how the fetishes, pathologies and... More »

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blogosphere • Google • Internet • blog • blogger • Internet access • British media • John Kelly

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