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The Van Jones incident demonstrated the power of new media. New media being citizen media, the blogosphere, social networking like Facebook, Twitter and such. It won't surprise you to learn that the only time The New York Times referred to Van Jones' communist connections was after he resigned. Read also; Mainstream print and broadcast media ignore Van Jones: timeline of who reported what and when Related: Obama's Communist Green Jobs Czar Van Jones resigns VaBig ups to my First Thursday co-hosts BusinessWeek’s Arik Hesseldahl and Lynn Parramore of New Deal 2.0 and RecessionWire. Last night, we resumed our monthly get-together at a new location near Union Square and had a fabulous time. Dan Frommer and Jay Yarow from The Business Insider showed up early and yukked it up. Frommer reports that Business Insider is up to 20 people now but the mostly young men who staff the joint are crestfallen over their departure from the Gilt offices, which

Street fashion blog fresh out of Berkeley, CA.Bill Clinton's advice to Dems ? Just ram this thing through: Clinton recalled how Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006, which Republicans had held since 1994. "I remember I told Hillary the morning after the election, I said, 'If we don't nominate a convicted felon, our nominee's gonna be president,'" he said. Well, a ringing endorsement, to be sure. Meanwhile, how do we like that growing radical crowd under the bus ? But really , if the darling candidate of the MSM were a conviCliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media interviewed me yesterday. Here's the result.The Blogger Who Nailed Van JonesIf the Van Jones resignation is blamed on his statements about Republicans and 9/11, a great lesson will have been lost. As we argued in a previous column, "It's the communism, stupid." If people don't recognize the dangers of having a communist in the White House, then the nature of the scandal will not have been understood. Blogger Trevor Loudon of New Zealand broke the story on AprAutumn and Danny are originally from Berkeley, California. They are graduates of the University of California at Berkeley where they met, discovered a common love for travel and have been criss-crossing the globe ever since!

from the NEW YORK TIMES: July 12, 2009 Op-Ed Contributor A Homespun Safety Net By BARBARA EHRENREICH IF nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless? So far, despite some temporary expansions of food stamps and unemployment benefits by the Obama administration, the recession has done for the government safeEven if this piece is written almost two months ago, I still find it refreshing and inspiring. Addressing the 2009 UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism class last May, San Francisco Chronicle 's Barbara Ehrenreich argues why journalists are here to stay. At a time when media and press communities all over the world grapple for survival and relevance, it's an insightful reading for journalists and citizens alike. Welcome to a dying industry, journalism grads Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't read many porn autobiographies outside of personal websites; not Jenna's, not Ron Jeremy's, not Christy Canyon's. And this is not because I don't think each will have something interesting to say, but because I have a feeling that each will be uniformly interesting. Is "started her own company and married an MMA fighter" really that much different from "can suck his own cock"? So bios from the top tiers of porn stardom, unless they can actually name names, don't really help as vivid

I haven’t yet carried out a full ID check, but I’m becoming convinced that there’s a national newspaper editor living on our street. I don’t know how long The Editor has been here. But I’ve spotted him three or four times, flitting like a meerkat from his door to his car, with barely a glance over his shoulder. Admittedly, he looks more like a hotel guest than a mortgage peon or a Housing Association tenant. The interesting thing about The Editor’s presence is that we both live in one of LonNarvic s’offre un billet chez Versac , avec en toile de fond le numéro spécial du Courrier International « Mais où va la presse ? » Parmi les contributions qu’il y a repérées, celle de la journaliste américaine Barbara Ehrenreich aux jeunes diplômés en journalisme de Berkeley : “Nous n’appartenons pas à une élite. Nous appartenons à la classe ouvrière, exactement comme tous les journalistes qui, pendant la plus grande partie de l’histoire des Etats-Unis, se sont touYou've got to feel for this year's crop of graduation speakers. What can you say, exactly, to inspire a couple thousand young adults leaving the safe shelter of academia with up to six figures of debt and unemployment figures of nearly 10 percent? A tough-love locker-room speech just isn't going to cut it. According to The Wall Street Journal , a number of 2009's keynote speakers actually apologized to graduates on behalf of their entire generation. In his shockingly candid address, Indiana G

Barbara Ehrenreich’s message to journalism school graduates at UC Berekeley on May 16 2009 is that they’re entering a dying industry. Yeah, I guess that’s the case if you’re looking for a secure job in the newsroom of the 1950s, but I would actually encourage j-school graduates to look at this as an opportunity. In fact, I would encourage college Freshmen to consider specializing in journalism! Why? Getting a degree in journalism, currently and in my opinion only, is the equi

Last night’s podcast is up this morning, bright and early! A theme from last week continues this week: Bug catching as a key practice in a re-booted system of news. Jay unfolds an example from this week: the AP’s coverage of the Twitter TV show.The TechGuardian asks How much is it worth to be one of Twitter’s suggested users?Dave discusses BitTorrent and why he put RTN 1-10 on it.CheckBox News, Dave’s mock-up of a re-booted user interface for television news where you can uncheck the streams youMexico Day Care Fire Kills 38 Children By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ - apnews.com HERMOSILLO, Mexico - Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies from a day-care fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building's only working exit. A father crashed his pickup truck through the wall in an effort to rescue his child. The family of 2-year-old Maria Magdalena Millan held a funeral for her,

50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot Kevin: As the post says: "50 of the best data visualizations and tools for creating your own visualizations out there, covering everything from Digg activity to network connectivity to what’s currently happening on Twitter." Welcome to a dying industry, journalism grads Kevin: Barbara Ehrenreich's commencement address to the UC Berkeley Graduate ScSpring is upon us and with it comes commencement season at universities across the country . This is a tough time for graduates in almost every discipline, but especially so for journalism grads. At least that is the conventional wisdom. Which is why it is so refreshing to see a shift in perspective occurring at two of this country's preeminent journalism schools: the Columbia Graduate School o

PeopleBarbara Ehrenreich’s Depressing J-School Commencement SpeechBy Ryan Tate on June 2, 2009 at 6:11 AM Barbara Ehrenreich is the lefty author who likes to write the kind of stories about the poors which most magazines consider too depressing or otherwise unmarketable. So it should come as no surprise that her journalism-school commencement address is really depressing. Food stamps are mentioned!Speaking at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism Sunday, EhrenreiBarbara Ehrenreich is the lefty author who likes to write the kind of stories about the poors which most magazines consider too depressing or otherwise unmarketable. So it should come as no surprise that her journalism-school commencement address is really depressing. Food stamps are mentioned! Speaking at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism Sunday May 16, in comments reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, Ehrenreich said she had been told

Last night's podcast is up this morning, bright and early! A theme from last week continues this week: Bug catching as a key practice in a re-booted system of news. Jay unfolds an example from this week: the AP's coverage of the Twitter TV show. The TechGuardian asks How much is it worth to be one of Twitter's suggested users? Dave discusses BitTorrent and why he put RTN 1-10 on it. CheckBox News , Dave's mock-up of a re-booted user interface for television news where you can un

San Francisco Chronicle "You are not alone," Barbara Ehrenreich told UC Berkeley j-school grads. "How do you think it feels to be an autoworker right now? And I've spent time with plenty of laidoff paper mill workers, construction workers and miners. They've got skills; they've got experience. They just don't have jobs. So let me be the first to say this to you: Welcome to the American working class."Barabara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed , a book about her masquerading as a blue-collar worker in several minimum-wage jobs in order to write a book about how America sucks, told journalism graduates at UC Berkeley that they’re headed for the unemployment line, just like many blue-collar workers: How do you think it feels to be an autoworker right now? And I’ve spent time with plenty of laidoff paper mill workers, construction workers and miners. They’ve got skills; they’ve got ex