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Why Bookstores Matter
2012-01-18 00:09:00 As a bibliophile, I fear the coming demise of an institution and product I love, the bookstore and the physical book. With technology, we became able first to order books online, then to buy electronic editions, both actions facilitated by one particular company. The virtual bookstore, however, could not replace several aspects of the brick-and-mortar ...
By: GayPatriot
Blogocracy: Giving a Voice to Pakistan's New Media Leaders
2011-12-28 07:37:00 The Second Pakistan Blog Awards was a big success. This year's theme was the "Colors of Pakistan: A Celebration of New Media Spaces". Details of the Gala Night on December 23, 2011 held at the...
By: Light Within
Memo to MSM:Examine charges on left-wing blogs before reporting them as fac
2011-12-17 00:17:00 On Tuesday, several left-of-center Facebook friends linked posts from a left-wing blog contending that Mitt Romney had adopted a Ku Klux Klan slogan to guide his presidential campaign. Quickly as charges leveled against conservatives and Republicans on such blogs are wont to do, that allegation was soon repeated unexamined on such news outlets as The Washington ...
By: GayPatriot
Help Make Ben Howe The Next Talk Radio Superstar!
2011-12-08 20:18:00 My good friend Ben Howe has the chance of a lifetime. He’s a finalist in WBT-AM’s context to find the “Next Talker” contest. Ben is contributor at RedState, plus a funny, energetic and influential activist in the new Conservative movement in America. He’s also a big supporter of us here at GayPatriot. All of the details ...
By: GayPatriot
Melissa Kellerman : Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader Denied $7,500 By Team
2011-11-27 21:06:00 Melissa Kellerman is a name brand-new to pop culture, but it looks like The Dallas Cowboys aren’t happy about it. Whatever the Cawboys’ thinking is, if it could be called that, it’s resulted in the robbing of a lot of potential cash from the pocket of their Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader. Melissa Kellerman is the same (Read More...)
So, Newt didn?t ask his wife for a divorce on her death-bed?
2011-11-03 01:07:00 If you want to know why so many conservatives were initially skeptical of the allegations leveled against Herman Cain, all you need do is read the latest column by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s daughter, Jackie Gingrich Cushman. For the longest time, our liberal friends have told us how the Georgia Republican presented his first ...
By: GayPatriot
Media coverage of #OWS becoming more even-handed?
2011-11-02 18:42:00 Maybe, the Cain story notwithstanding, our media are offering more critical treatment of the left. Just caught this on Yahoo!’s homepage. The article linked comes from the conservative-leaning Daily Caller.
By: GayPatriot
Sounds like the total number of MSM reporters scrutinizing Obama?s record i
2011-10-31 22:17:00 Jim Treacher picks up a detail in the Politico report on Herman Cain, “The story has four credited reporters, but the lead is Jonathan Martin.” (Via Instapundit.) Four credited reporters? Four credited reporters and they couldn’t provide specifics about the allegations? It takes the conservative media to do that.
By: GayPatriot
When the "new media" kill
2011-04-07 21:26:00 Bloggers and all deriders of the "legacy media" should read this piece. Professional journalism becoming replaced by the kind of laissez faire, anything-goes new media touted by what I would cal communications libertarians has its consequences. Sometimes deadly. ...
Sarah Palin?s Mistake
2011-01-14 09:10:00 Democrats were in major meltdown when John McCain tapped Sarah Palin as his running mate just days before the Republican National Convention in 2008, in large part, because Sarah Palin was the change agent Barack Obama claimed to be. As governor of Alaska, she actually took on entrenched interests, worked across party lines and shook ...
By: GayPatriot
Reaction to Tucson Shooting: Defining Moment for Left
2011-01-12 19:44:00 In the immediate aftermath of the attempt on the life of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), many (but fortunately not all) on the left were quick to blame conservative rhetoric. They thought hoped this shooting would prove to be their silver bullet in their war on the right, proof of their creed that conservative rhetoric breeds ...
By: GayPatriot
GP ALERT: LIVE VIDEO BROADCAST AT 3:30PMSPECIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT
2010-10-29 21:11:00 Stay tuned for a special announcement at 3:30PM Eastern. I’ll be broadcasting live (er.. recorded live…) for the first time from GayPatriot Broadcast HQ in Charlotte, NC. LIVE ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE FROM FREEDOMWORKS Anchored by Tabitha Hale, Melissa Clothier and Bruce Carroll UPDATE: Dang it, I forgot to mention the most important thing! If any of ...
By: GayPatriot
Obama Evolving on Gay Marriage or Pandering for the Gay Vote?
2010-10-28 07:48:00 When Bruce e-mailed me a link to a tweet he had received on the president’s first sit down interview with gay media, I wrote back quickly saying, that the Democrat must “really must be fearing that he’s losing the gay vote”. And sure enough, following the link a few hours later, I read this on ...
By: GayPatriot
New Media Resource on American Atheists
2010-10-09 13:31:00 Secular Leaders Praise New Journalists' Resource ReligionLink Offers New Source Guide on U.S.'s 30 Million Nonreligious For Immediate Release: October 7, 2010 Contact: Jesse Galef, Secular Student Alliance - 614-441-9588 / jesse@secularstudents.org Paul Fidalgo, Secular Coalition for America - 202-299-1091 / paul@secular.org Leaders from the secular movement are praising a new resource they say will help them be better understood in the media and in society. To help journalists cover secular Americans, the news service ReligionLink has unveiled a comprehensive source guide focused on American nonbelievers titled "Freethinkers: A source guide to atheists, humanists and other nontheists." It is the first comprehensive resource for people interested in learning about nontheists in the country. The project was initiated by the Stiefel Freethought Foundation, an organization which provides strategic and financial assistance to the freethought movement. It officially marked i...
Andrew Breitbart Gets A Serious Dose Of His Own Medicine (Video)
2010-07-27 04:26:00 Video: Andrew Breitbart Professes Admiration For Terrorists; al-Qaeda Good ole’ Andy Breitbart: hero to the Right, villian to the Left and politics aside — a disgraced New Media HACK of highly questionable integrity and character who’ll go to any length, even illegal measures to... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Non-linear video installation Thurs. 01/07/2010@White Night TLV
2010-06-29 21:17:00 Dear friends, As part of PLASTIK SHUK events on White Night Tel Aviv I will present a new-media installation - "Non-Linear Creation" - a 6 stories tall live and thoroughly "shuffled" video... Read more
By: Stained Arts
King Joseph Lieberman I Pushing For Presidential ?Kill Switch? For The Inte
2010-06-18 03:57:00 Joe Liberman Pushes HARD For New Bill To Allow Department Of Homeland Security To Effectively Shut The Internet Down With A Quick Flip Of The Switch… Wow, I guess the Executive Branch just doesn’t have quite enough (“Separate But Equal”?) power these days according to King... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
An Old School Journalist Accepts A New Media World
2010-02-17 02:54:00 With one foot firmly planted in the old school media space and the other squarely situated in the new media way of communicating and interacting, when it comes to remaining stuck in the past or embracing what's new and constantly changing, I'm as conflicted as President Clinton at a sorority rush.
New Media at the IDC Herzliya Conference
2010-02-01 16:08:00 The Herzliya Conference is Israel's foremost global policy annual gathering, drawing together Israeli and international participants from the highest levels of government, business and academia to address pressing national, regional and global strategic issues. As a Jewish student living in New York City and attending NYU I?m influenced by two main sources when it comes ...
By: Jewneric
Fake ACORN Pimp And Cohorts Who Exposed Group?s Controversy Arrested, Charg
2010-01-27 01:26:00 Conservative “New Media Hero” Makes Richard Milhouse Nixon Proud — Busted For Wiretapping In A New Orleans Federal Building… This time, the ACORN “gotchya” man, James O’Keefe [ahem... allegedly] a member of the Pelican Institute for Public Policy,... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Think Twice: Using That Cellphone Camcorder Of Yours To Record Police Can R
2010-01-16 01:56:00 United Police States Of America Alive And Well In Massachusetts: Film Police Brutality In Public, Face Arrest For Illegal Surveillance; Film Police Heroically Saving A Citizen’s Life, No Problemma… Folks, I stumbled upon this article from Boston.Com entitled, “Police fight... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
You know the tide is turning in the global warming debate when. .
2009-12-16 02:25:00 . . . a non-conservative media outlet features story on Al Gore’s global warming dishonesty. Earlier in the day, AOL featured this story, Al Gore Gets It Wrong at Copenhagen Talks. FROM THE COMMENTS: Sonicfrog alerts us to something he wrote on his blog: Someone in the press?. challenging Al Gore on facts???? WOW! Now THAT?S real Climate Change!
By: GayPatriot
The Kevin Jennings? Kerfuffle & the Silence of the MSM, Continued
2009-12-15 07:46:00 Imagine, if you will, that just over eight year ago, then-President George W. Bush nominated a guy named Keith Jenkins to serve as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for Curriculum at the Department of Education. (Yes, Tim and Tano, I realize there’s no such position.) This fellow Jenkins, having taught in public schools, had become increasingly ...
By: GayPatriot
Time for Buffy to Bid the White House Adieu
2009-09-22 11:36:00 As I have been reading the transcript of the conference call coordinated by the White House and the supposedly non-partisan National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), various bloggers’ reactions to this attempt to use art to promote the president’s agenda, I have scribbled a number of notes for a potential on the topic. But, the ...
By: GayPatriot
In re: NEA Scandal, What Wasn?t Recorded?(At NEA & other agencies)
2009-09-22 00:18:00 As we bloggers pore over the tape and transcripts showing Obama Administration officials attempting to use the National Endowment for the Arts to further its political ends, I got to wondering how much of this politicking goes on in the various departments and agencies of the federal government that has not been recorded? I’m betting there is ...
By: GayPatriot
Doctors Overwhelming Oppose Obamacare
2009-09-17 07:25:00 While the President may claim doctors back his plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system, a recent poll tells an entirely different story: Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were ...
By: GayPatriot
A Social Media Mindfest?New Media Atlanta Brings Speakers Who Know What The
2009-09-16 19:16:00 The New Media Atlanta Conference is designed to advise you, in both concrete and visionary ways, how to get out there and make your name known on the internet. Related posts:NAR has a Social Media Manager does your Company/Organization? Making NAR 'open, authentic, honest, and constantly in touch' is...The Art of Making it Personal: Getting to the Heart of Social Media Success at REtechSouth 2009 “Attack it with a beginner’s mind,” I read recently on...Maxsell’s Brad Nix Nominated for GAR’s Realtor of the Year Recently nominated by the Georgia Association of Realtors to compete...
With Trust in Accuracy of Press at Two-Decade Low,No Wonder More People Tur
2009-09-14 23:18:00 In a week where the MSM misses many of the big stories (an Obama adviser’s radical views, the growing grassroots opposition to big government), at a time when many media outlets downplay major scandals of the majority party, it should come as no surprise that The public?s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now ...
By: GayPatriot
Intro to New Media Art « conquistadores del arte digital 2600c
2009-09-12 12:06:00 Intro to New Media Art « conquistadores del arte digital 2600c
By: weblogART
Can Healthcare Debate Help Revive GOP?(even with biased media)
2009-09-05 17:57:00 When a friend on Facebook offered that the anti-[Obamacare] side “short circuited the [healthcare] debate with craziness,” I responded with a rhetorical question: Did the anti-side short circuit the debate or did the media coverage of their opposition short circuit [it], given the media focus on [its] most extreme elements? It does seem many in the media ...
By: GayPatriot
Astroturfing Facebook for Obamacare
2009-09-04 01:30:00 Earlier today, just before heading out for a hike with my brother and sister-in-law in Boulder, I caught the same Facebook “status” from a number of my left-leaning friends: No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as ...
By: GayPatriot
New Media & Youth Action Conference
2009-08-23 08:12:00 Sosauce is presenting a free all-day community youth forum on progressive issues such as health, environment, global & local development and cultural diplomacy. They will be providing an open platform for young people to learn about how to use sites such as Sosauce.com with social entrepreneurship to create effective change. The event will be held on ...Your Free Subscriber Download Download "Dare Me!" now. Enjoy 17 off-the-wall adventures from a RTW trip. Related posts:Travel Talk At The Grey Dog’s CafeSosauce / Matador BBQ In BrooklynIntroducing Sosauce Travel
By: GoBackpacking
Updated: UTV New Media Lays Off 20 People – Interview With Manish Aga
2009-08-13 08:36:00 Updated: We spoke to Manish Agarwal – CEO, UTV New Media and this is what he had to say.. On the reason for the lay offs “Restructuring has been done across UTV New media and we have created vertical and horizontal structures. Vertical being brands horizontal being services. I am not agreeing to the word of layoff. Its a combination of consolidation and annual review. The annual review didn’t happen for the UTV new media division earlier.” On connection with financial performance “The restructuring has no connection with the financial performance of UTV new media. It is done to make the division leaner and efficient” What is impact on business? New offerings in pipeline? “We expect agility in the business after this move. There are plans in pipeline but it will be too early to commment on them.” Original Post: This is just in: We have been told by various sources that UTV Newmedia division which runs UTVi.com, Techtree.com and various...
By: WATblog
Social network, internet, new media
2009-06-30 21:16:00 Ogni tanto succede che qualche scriteriato mi chieda un parere su tematiche legate a internet e social network. Io, come una comare che si incontra sul pianerottolo, naturalmente non vedo l’ora di dire la mia su questo, quello e quell’altro.. Trattandosi della pregevole e rampante Società Editrice Fiorentina (Sef) la richiesta mi onora doppiamente. di Riccardo Pizzi Quando parlo ...
By: PocaCola blog
Nancy Thought She Could Get Away With Lying
2009-05-19 01:18:00 When one blogger caught the unhappy Barney Frank lying about his record and trying to “to re-write history with respect to the role he played in helping enable the collapse of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae,” I wrote: In the past, he could get away with it because the media watchdogs, ever eager to pounce at ...
By: GayPatriot
New Media Cincinnati at The Pub
2009-05-14 03:08:00 This past Saturday I spent some time with the folks from New Media Cincinnati to discuss the latest trends on the Internet, debate Twitter, talk photography and, of course, drink some beers. This was my first time visiting with this group & it was a good time… I’ll be back for future events. I won’t ...
Barney, You Can?t Hide Your Lyin? Words
2009-04-25 10:46:00 Every time I get tired of blogging about Barney Frank, he rears his ugly head and says something which if a Republican in his position had said it would invite ridicule and raise questions of competence. The latest story goes beyond the Massachusetts Democrat’s consistent refusal to acknowledge how actions he took and reforms he blocked ...
By: GayPatriot
Higgins (NY-27) Adopts New Media
2009-04-25 02:05:00 Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) is expanding his accessibility to the public through the launch of new Facebook and YouTube pages as well as regular Twitter updates. ?The methods through which people are receiving their news and information is evolving and we are changing with the new technology,? said Congressman Brian Higgins. ...
By: BuffaloPundit
What Happens When You Slur ?Tea Parties?
2009-04-17 15:18:00 CNN flops in ratings. If you’re in the cable news business you fall behind what CNN reporter Susan Roesgen called the “right-wing, conservative Network” (FoxNews). In fact, you fall so far behind that on the day of the protests, if you combined that “news” network’s Prime time numbers with those of another network which slurred the ...
By: GayPatriot
The Chris Matthews Comedy Hour
2009-04-04 10:34:00 Yesterday when “climbing” the Stairmaster, they had MSNBC on at my gym. I had quite a laught watching Chris Matthews. He was talking about the President’s European trip. And while he didn’t quite get a thrill up his leg, I was wondering if they kept drool buckets on hand at MSNBC. He reported the trip much ...
By: GayPatriot
Rachel Maddow Without the Sound
2009-03-31 05:51:00 She actually looks good on the screen and seems like she’s having a lot of fun, in marked contrast to her fellow MSNBC host, Keith Olbermann, who always looks angry and unhappy. For some reason, the closed captioning wasn’t working for her show while I was pounding away on the Stairmaster today, so I couldn’t follow ...
By: GayPatriot
Each FoxNews Prime Time Show Beats Olbermann
2009-03-17 04:32:00 And Olbermann beats everyone else on MSNBC.
By: GayPatriot
Slow Blogging/Watchmen Bleg
2009-03-11 17:14:00 While there is much to blog about these past few days, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying we need an even larger “stimulus” (I guess it’s just in her party’s nature to keep spending money we don’t have), her “air rage,” the tea party movement growing apace, the withdrawal of the Chas Freeman appointment (after ...
By: GayPatriot
Glenn Beck?s lesbian caller confronts the gay orthodoxy
2009-03-07 00:30:00 When you receive successive e-mails from readers forwarding the same e-mail, it’s usually something worth blogging about. A lesbian called into Glenn Beck’s show to share her experiences coming out of the closet. Her story will seem mighty familiar to many of those who read this blog: since I came out of my conservative closet, ...
By: GayPatriot
Rahm Attacks!!Assault on Rush Defining Moment for WH/MSM Axis
2009-03-05 22:18:00 When Rush Limbaugh offers a well-received speech detailing the conservative opposition to the President of the United States, offering facts and arguments, the White House coordinates with its allies (Clinton Administration veterans) in the MSM to attack Rush personally. Former Clinton White House aide Paul Begala called the talk show host “the bloated face and drug-addled ...
By: GayPatriot
Just How Bad Is My Twitter Addiction?
2009-02-26 13:30:00 I haven’t read The Corner at National Review Online all week. K-Lo…. please get The Corner on Twitter! PS — Patrick Ruffini declared Tuesday was the day that Twitter “jumped the shark”. Ironically it was the same day I figured it all out. That is pretty much par for the course with Internet & techy stuff ...
By: GayPatriot
New Media Arts Exhibition Project
2009-02-01 21:30:00 Hong Kong Art School (HKAS) is delighted to announce the launching of the ?New Media Arts Exhibition Project ? Intermedia Experiment at HKAS?, commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council and curated by Mr. Jamsen Law.This is a multi-faceted project that consists of a series of workshops on the implementation of technology in immersive time-based experiences, a week-long installation exhibition and a series of performance.Works created by the participants during the workshops will be accumulated into a final showcase at the McAulay Studio in February 2009, alongside an audio-visual performance by members of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta.Hong Kong Art School
By: weblogART
NEW MEDIA ART BETWEEN ISOLATION AND INTEGRATION, INTER-DISCIPLINARITY AND M
2009-01-31 20:51:00 NEW MEDIA ART BETWEEN ISOLATION AND INTEGRATION, INTER-DISCIPLINARITY AND MEDIA SPECIFICITYExperts Forum - Arco MadridFebruary, Sunday 15Director: Domenico QuarantaSpeakers: Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, Roberta Bosco, Geert Lovink, Inke Arns, Régine Debatty, Zhang Ga, Joasia Krysahttp://www.ifema.es/web/fe-rias/arco/programa_social_m_i.h-tml
By: weblogART
?Equality Summit??Afternoon; Monogamy Mentioned
2009-01-24 23:14:00 I’m not sitting in the afternoon plenary session, “Race, Religion & the LGBT Movement.” My eyes again began to glaze over as the representatives from the various organizations offered self-congratulatory reports what they did to defeat Proposition 8 or protest its passage. Had my eyes not glazed over, I might have caught the introduction of a ...
By: GayPatriot
Live-blogging ?Equality Summit,? Continued
2009-01-24 21:29:00 As we’re doing introductions in the “Faith Communities” breakout session, I realize yet again one of interesting ironies (is that the word I want?) of being a blogger covering events like this. It’s a notion that first struck me at the Republican National Convention. I mean, I’m really a hybrid here, wanting to participate and offer ...
By: GayPatriot
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