AP - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's retort was an Internet sensation.
This weekend, Craigslist removed its notorious "Adult Services" classifieds section in U.S. markets and replaced it with a black bar that read "censored," implying that pressure from law enforcement or the legal and political systems of the country became too much to resist.CraigslistCraigslist is playing for sympathy, but will it get that sympathy from the public? We've put together this ...
Craigslist's "Adult Services" section — a digital red light district that has been the subject of many controversies — has been removed in all U.S. markets. The front page link to Adult Services has been replaced with a black bar that reads "censored," an implication that the site's hand was forced by legal authorities. Adult Services has been a ...
Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.With another long hot American summer coming to a close, many students are scrambling to get back into "learning mode" before school starts. One of the simplest ...
The 2010 U.S. midterm elections are coming up. On November 2, 36 of the 100 Senate seats, 26 of the 50 gubernatorial and all of the House seats will be contested. As they did for the 2008 presidential elections, the Personal Democracy Forum is working with YouTube to ask voters to post videos of 10 Questions they have for the ...
The Upshot - Here's our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: President Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg went golfing on Martha's Vineyard together today. (The Hill) Jimmy Carter to the rescue! The former president helped bring back a Boston man who was jailed for seven months in North Korea today. (AP) Fed Chairman [...]
The user community of news-aggregation website Reddit has taken a call to arms after site owner Condé Nast stated it would not run advertisements promoting California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana under certain restrictions.
Instead of using the online ad space to generate revenues, Condé Nast is now facing an army of “Redditors,” as the site’s active participants are known, ...
AP - A blogger is warning people attending Glenn Beck's rally to avoid certain Washington subway lines. He also says says the nation's capital is populated by refugees, especially taxi drivers and restaurant servers from African and Arab nations.
The Upshot - Here's our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • Police are investigating whether vandalism at a California mosque was a hate crime. A brick was thrown through the window and three signs were left behind on Friday, with one of them reading "No Temple for the God of terrorism at Ground Zero." [...]
The Upshot - Here's our daily roster of stories that evaded full-on blog treatment: • A federal court has issued an injunction against further federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research in a rebuke to President Obama's guidelines on the issue. (Reuters) • Texas Rep. Ron Paul has broken with his son, Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul, as [...]
Do you use Google AdSense or other ad services on your personal blog or website? If you live in the city of Philadelphia, you might want to rethink that decision.Last week, the Philadelphia City Paper published an article discussing the potential impact of the city's Business Privilege Tax on residents that engage in "activity for profit" -- activity that includes ...
AP - The U.S. is warning about the Chinese military's use of civilian computer experts in clandestine cyber attacks repeatedly aimed at American companies and government agencies.
The Washington Post is reporting that eight Republican U.S. senators are trying to block the sale of telecommunications equipment from Chinese manufacturer Huawei to U.S. wireless provider Sprint Nextel. The group, led by Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona, is asking the Obama administration to investigate if the country’s national security will be compromised by the equipment. In a statement, the group said, “A Chinese ...
AP - The Pentagon is denying it had direct contact with WikiLeaks and says the military is not interested in helping the website review classified war documents to post online.
AFP - Four members of Congress bashed a "net neutrality" proposal made by Google and Verizon, calling on US regulators to find their own way to insure all data is treated equally online.
AP - North Korea may see its new Twitter and You Tube accounts as a prime platform for anti-U.S. propaganda, but the Obama administration says the world's most secretive regime may have bitten off more than it can chew by joining the networked world.
The founders of Campaign Live want to level the playing field for political candidates running for state, county and local office - if those candidates are Democrats.
The month-old company has been offering Facebook, MySpace, Web and mobile Web apps for between $0 and $999, depending on a client's ability to pay. But today Campaign Live announced a generous promotion: free ...
Chris Vein is the Chief Information Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, and is responsible for setting the city’s technology vision and direction, ensuring the development and implementation of citywide standards, policies, and procedures, as well as running the technology “utility” department. Five months ago, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom stood with President Obama’s Chief Information ...
The Upshot - As we reported earlier, a new CNN poll shows for the first time, a majority of Americans say gays should have a constitutional right to get married. As polling-statistics blogger Nate Silver points out, the margin of error lessens the force of the finding, but it is safe to conclude that the old political wisdom [...]
The Upshot - One of the leaders of the conservative American Family Association has taken the debate over the Cordoba Mosque in lower Manhattan to a new level. Bryan Fischer, the group's director of issue analysis, is calling on his blog and radio show for a nationwide moratorium on the construction of any mosque, anywhere. "Permits should not [...]