One year ago, President Barack Obama's election win transformed political campaigns by showing the power of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and text messages.

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Sarah Palin appears on Oprah on Monday to mark the launch of her book, "Going Rogue." She'll follow up with an extensive interview with Barbara Walters, a multicity book tour and appearances on the Fox News Channel and talk radio.

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"Policing this is going to be a tremendously difficult thing, let alone writing the rules," said Edwin Bender, executive director of the National Institute on Money in State Politics, a nonprofit group in Helena, Mont.

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We should've known this was coming... Where did our liberty and freedom go?

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How much information can people tread water in before they seek succor from someone to drain the swamp and just give them a glass of water?

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The New York Times, still smarting after losing scoops to Fox News, has thrown in the towel, vowing to avoid future embarrassment by monitoring the cable channel.

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from the oh-really? dept. Mathew Ingram points us to the news that President Obama has indicated that he's at least open to hearing bills that would help bailout the newspaper industry because he's afraid of reporting becoming "all blogosphere":

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Information Nation

I am not one for uncivilized discourse. I have always had the mindset that if two parties involved in an argument cannot see the bigger picture of an issue and what is needed to resolve it, then there is no point in engaging.

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The Washington Post vs Gawker Feud: Who's right, who's wrong, who cares?

It seems The Washington Post and Gawker have been "having words" -- and as of today there have been around 75 media articles appear online about it. What's it all about? PART 1.

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Obama's Propaganda

What is the definition of propaganda? To most people, its the manipulation of facts and evidence to incite support for not just the government's actions, but their narrative of the world.

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Part of the AP's plan is to charge for use of its articles if you quote 5 words or more. They signed a deal with iCopyright in April to accomplish this goal. iCopyright is a widget that handles not only print and email, but republishing as well.

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Just a little more than a year ago, I went into the office of the Austin American-Statesman's Internet managing editor and asked whether I could start using Twitter to engage the social media community.

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In the dark winter and spring of 2009, as dispatches from the news business grew ever more grim, as Jim Romenesko's posts took on the feel of casualty reports, newsrooms across the land began to feel like the Emerald City when the Wicked Witch soars overhead, trailing smoke and …

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The Times e-mailed a survey to print subscribers Thursday afternoon inviting their reaction to that pricing plan and asking a range of questions about online pricing.

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Fearing that technology will do to the city's media industry what exotic derivatives have done to Wall Street, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced a set of initiatives on Tuesday to encourage new media companies to set up shop in New York.

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When she headed the Huffington Post's "OfftheBus" project, Amanda Michel led a nationwide team of citizen reporters as they looked into stories of the 2008 presidential election that weren't covered by the media.

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Alison van Diggelen took all this business about anyone being a citizen journalist seriously. She's not the sort to register with Blogger to start tapping out essays on the battles between California gray squirrels and the pesky blue jays in her verdant backyard.

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There's no question media people think highly of themselves. We tend to be well-educated and worldly, and we consider ourselves worthy to help shape what the entire country reads, watches, and listens to.

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Bloggers and tweeters are quoted freely as semaphore from the streets. Often enough, those scatter-gun bulletins from Iran have been the only source to survive the void created by the regime's crackdown: the sharp scrutiny of the 24-hour news cycle has been extinguished.

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I question the motives and involvement of the same corporate-media that sold an unnecessary preemptive war and profited from its prosecution.

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While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.

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After doing The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics last week, I thought that in order to be fair, I should feature the women on the Right as well. So, in the spirit of the Hill's 50 Most Beautiful lists, I present to you "The 15 Hottest Conservative Women In The New Media."

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But the really interesting point is what kinds of information these tools relay. Earlier today, USFOR-A — which is separate from the NATO International Security Assistance Force — used its Twitter page to post a tally of enemy dead.

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Arianna Huffington interview suggests that monetization for only content should only be for "weird porn".

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The internet is killing newspapers and giving birth to a new sort of news business .....and we are it!

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