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Over in Nevada, GOP U.S. Senate favorite Sue Lowden has decided to change the conversation by going all crazy on her Tea Party rival Sharron Angle for the Scientology prison massages she loves!
It's easy to think that racism, age-ism or sexism doesn't have much to do with our own lives. But not engaging with the idea of the other can lead to misunderstandings and crossed human connections.
RapidShare, a popular file sharing site, has dodged a copyright bullet. A Fed. Judge in CA ruled that RapidShare isn't guilty of copyright infringement because it doesn't have a searchable index.
When traffic control officer Sergeant Tim Burrows had to find a better way to communicate with the public about Toronto's roadways, he turned to social media to solve his problem.
I thought Glenn Beck must have moved on to other things, but the other night, he went back to his attack on social justice churches. This time the issue was climate change.
For the short list of blue chip behavioral targeting solutions available to the advertising industry, real violations of privacy at the personal level are not just unethical; the data is of low value anyway.
Broadcasters are licensed to "serve the public interest..." If they do not, they should have their licenses stripped away. It's a rule that both the corporate owners and the FCC prefer to ignore.
The FCC's decision to review its rules on how many radio and TV stations a company can own in a single market came five days after Google announced the introduction of Google TV.
Beck's shtick is a backhanded nod to the relevance of history as a discipline and to historians not only as educators, but also as the keepers of the nation's myths.
I am beginning to believe that most well-paid liberal journalists, who are unfamiliar with urban issues and what it's like to be poor in a wealthy society, are quick to believe any story about an African-American group screwing up.
Interestingly, the Sestak job offer issue never impacted the primary. Just as in the case of Rand Paul's comments, it was out there well in advance of the primary but did not create a stir until after the polls had closed.
Oprah Winfrey has just announced that Oprah's Angel Network will no longer be accepting donations. She's also discontinuing the Network's grantmaking program. Oh, Oprah. Say it ain't so.
I'll agree the story wouldn't have gotten attention if it were seen as trans instead of gay, but I also doubt this story would have gotten much attention if it read like a much more common gay story.
For the last 50 years Carl Djerassi has been known as the father of "the pill." So I was surprised to see that nowhere in Time's cover story on the pill was there any mention of Djerassi.
Currently, 660 women comprise the ranks of the 2,000 media professionals in Afghanistan. In 2000, that number was zero.
What's a nice Irish American priest like Séamus Finn doing on The Daily Show? Pressing a cause that has been his job and passion for over 20 years: banking and financial sector reform and social justice.
This video blogosphere is a rising tsunami that is changing America, changing the world, and making both a whole lot better.
In a recent Op-Ed, Friedman claims that Iran refuses to put its (low-enriched) uranium stockpile under IAEA inspection, but this assertion is verifiably false -- and the New York Times should publish a correction.
As founders of two of the most hedonistic and bohemian "addictive digital platforms," 22-year-old Christopher Poole and 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy are this generation's Internet legends.
Jeff Jarvis, 2010.05.29
