Former Reagan Administration Paul Craig Roberts stated in a interview with RT News that there is a concerted effort to shut Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, up and that if the legal attempt fails, he’ll be assassinated by a CIA assassination team. Roberts explains to the anchorwoman. “There is a concerted effort to nail [...]
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Bradley Manning Support Network’s PayPal Closed
Courage to Resist, the support group set up for raising funds in support of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (the man behind a large number of the recent WikiLeaks documents), has been closed down. “We’ve been in discussions with PayPal for weeks, and by their own admission there’s no legal obligation for them to close [...]
Oh Kevin Smith, You So Crazy
Kevin Smith has always been on the somewhat forefront of social media and advertising. I’m not sure that’s the best way to put it…more like he uses unconventional means to get his message across. I’m sure you all remember the whole Southwest debacle that he took to Twitter and his blog. And if you haven’t [...]
Just Like Egypt, Libya Shutters Internet Too
This is all getting a little scary if you ask me. Governments being able to turn off the internet like a light switch in the bathroom…all willy nilly. It’s a bit too 1984 if you ask me. This graph is from last week, and they’re back up now, but it is still very frightening that [...]
Mubarak’s Youngest Protester
With everything happening in Egypt right now, it’s tough to get an inside view of exactly what is taking place. We have to rely on untraditional methods to receive the proper information. That is one of the amazing things about the internet. Even though the “government” had virtually cut off all virtual communication there was [...]
Is Craig Ferguson the heir apparent to Bill Hicks?
One of the interesting things about Craig Ferguson is that, not only does he semi ad-lib his way through extremely funny monologues most nights, he also periodically injects his humor with life or history lessons. He did this one night when he started the Late Late Show by explaining, in a very succinct manner, why [...]
The World at Large is Transitioning to the New Digg?
If you are active on Digg.com you receive a steady stream of email notifications telling you that people are now following your account, because they are “interested in what you are up to on Digg!” or some such. Well as if that steady stream of “fan following” wasn’t enough… it’s apparently started coming from the [...]
Live Diggnation! Oh How Meta.
My whole life is about META. I worked at TV stations so long that at times I felt more interested in TV station culture and life than I was with the actual delivering of the information. The latest gossip about where a reporter or news director had just gotten a new job always enthralled me. [...]
Top 3 Reasons Why Janine Kahn Kicks Butt
There has been a lot of talk all over the internet about the wonderful development at SF Weekly, the San Francisco alternative weekly newspaper, where Alexia Tsotsis is arriving Monday after her sojourn at LA Weekly to become a web editor in the City by the Bay. I am super excited to get to work [...]
Important Lessons from William Safire
As I was reading about the life of Nixon speech writer William Safire yesterday, I came across this little piece written by Ted Pease with “Today’s Word” that I knew I had to show here. In my time as a journalist there are things I learned that I MUST pay attention to, like spelling and [...]
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My 89-Year-Old Grandma Loves Playing Solitaire on iPad
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Two Main Reasons Empire Avenue is Worthwhile
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Journalists Wonder What’s Better on Twitter – “First” or “Correct”
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Hi I'm John Boitnott. Welcome to my blog! Here I talk about how old media is coping with the Web. I write for Soshable.com, build buzz for sites and advise writers on how to make their work more likely to be shared online. I have worked at Venturebeat, Village Voice Media and NBC. Before that I held several positions at various TV newsrooms in the state of California, from 1994 to 2009.
