How tech savvy should our president be? Torey Van Oot dissects the influence of the Net and McCain’s unwillingness to adapt.

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To anyone who is attempting to find a job at a newspaper right now, my heart goes out to you.  Attending a journalism school, I know a few who are lucky enough to be doing so in a recession.  It’s slim pickins out there.
A friend of mine sent a job inquiry to the editor of [...]

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Your browser is hungry. Hungry for some organizational lovin. (RSS) Feed it, Seymour.

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They way you communicate is about to be revolutionized…again.

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The Burmese junta cut off all internal access to the Internet on Friday morning as its crackdown on the demonstrations continues. The government has not allowed foreign correspondents into the country, so journalists have relied on the people inside Burma to smuggle out information, photos and videos. Their stories— mostly sent out by email— have [...]

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Here at PopandPolitics.com, we really dig tag clouds - the feature we have off to the right of our posts under “Heat”. With tagclouds, more frequently used tags are displayed in a larger font, whereas less popular words/subjects appear smaller in the tag cloud. Selecting a single tag within a tag cloud will generally lead [...]

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To understand both pop + politics in the Web 2.0 world, one must be in touch with the specific feelings across online content-generating demographics at a particular point in time and place.
Enter WeFeelFine.org, the excellent real-time visualization of the above, created by Internet artist Jonathan Harris and Google personalization tech Sep Kamvar.
Basically, WeFeelFine aggregates and [...]

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Rock fans are crying “blasphemy” to the latest merchandizing of Jimi Hendrix. Jimi’s sacred image will soon appear on containers of “Liquid Experience,” a new energy drink developed by California-based Beverage Concepts.  This new “health” drink is set to appear in stores this April.  Hey didn’t Hendrix die of a drug overdose before he reached the [...]

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Gone are the days of cruising the streets with friends and rendezvousing at midnight at the Dunkin’ Donuts parking lot to see what’s up.
55% of online teens use social networks and have created online profiles. Girls moreso than boys (70% of girls aged 15-17), according to the results of a Pew Internet & American Life [...]

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When people talk about the power of the internet to transform the American political process, they usually point to the fundraising success of sites like moveon.org or to the enormous support generated online for Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential primaries. This election season a perfect storm of technological and political factors have developed [...]

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A few days ago I blogged about how “NBC 2.0” restructuring plans were merely faux 2.0. Well it seems everyone is talking about 2.0 these day: what it is, what it is not, and whether it is becoming the platform for the short-term future of greedy people.
Legal scholar, creative commons founder, and all-around free internet [...]

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NBC announced its decision to save $750 million over the next 2 years by filling the first hour of prime time with low-cost schlock like reality programs and and game shows, and by laying off 5 percent of by cutting NBC Universal’s full-time workforce of 15,000. (This amounts to about 700 job cuts.)
NBC plans to [...]

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Mega-search engine company Google bought the profitless YouTube for $1.65 million yesterday and this silly thank you video from Chad Hurley and Steve Chen shows the two YouTube twentysomething founders giddy to be billionaires.
Mark Cuban, media critic/owner of the Dallas Mavericks, HDNet and HDTV cable network, claims this is the beginning of the end of [...]

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