Allison Kilkenny, AlterNet. November 12, 2009. ChristianChirp.com, which promises to be a "family friendly" site, was founded by a man who claims to have been banned from Twitter for defending Rush Limbaugh.
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. November 7, 2009. Digitally-enabled mating culture has opened up the mate-finding process while also generating a whole new set of dating anxieties.
Roberto Lovato, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. October 31, 2009. By allowing Dobbs to use the incident to level spurious attacks at his critics, CNN is is seriously undermining its claim to be "the most trusted name in news."
Agence France Presse AlterNet: Media and TechnologyOctober 30, 2009. Technology and media stars, pundits and entrepreneurs joined the Internet's father to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his culture-changing child.
Charles Mostoller, AlterNet. October 29, 2009. An activist shared on Twitter what he heard on his police scanner, and now faces serious federal investigation.
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009. Hackers knocked wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter offline for several hours Thursday with a malicious cyber-attack on its systems, according to the company's founder.
Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 13, 2009. Famous in analog. Mourned in digital. In death the King of Pop inspired the greatest online eulogy in human history.
ZP Heller, Brave New Foundation AlterNet: Video. July 9, 2009. Cole and HuffPo's Nico Pitney discuss how the Obama administration must engage the Iranian regime.
July 7, 2009. The Better Business Bureau says it's seeing a surge in online lures to get rich quick or make money from home by using the social media site.
David Bollier, On the Commons. June 30, 2009. The digital communications apparatus is crowding out deeper relationships and more deliberative modes of thinking.
David Waldman, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. June 29, 2009. Imagine if the influencers who get their first reports of news through the horribly skewed bullshit lens of Drudge used Twitter instead.
Linda Milazzo, AlterNet. June 25, 2009. Why is corporate media so eager to cover the people's movement in Iran, but unwilling to cover the anti-war movement here?
Jason Linkins, Huffington Post AlterNet: World. June 22, 2009. Marco Rubio: "I have a feeling the situation in Iran would be a little different if they had a 2nd amendment like ours."
Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. June 22, 2009. Americans express outrage and solidarity on behalf of the people of Iran; meanwhile innocent people die every day with our tax dollars.
Jasmin Ramsey, PULSE. June 18, 2009. As the fight over Iran becomes more polarized, images of youth-filled streets in Tehran only tell part of the story.
Agence France Presse June 17, 2009. The State Department asked Twitter to delay a planned maintenance outage because of its use as a communications tool by Iranians after their disputed election.
Austin Heap, New America Media. June 17, 2009. Cyber activist Austin Heap: "My website has been attacked by Iran. My servers are melting. But protesters are still using technology to mobilize."
Agence France Presse June 16, 2009. The State Department asked Twitter to delay maintenance plans in order to allow Iranians to communicate while their government banned other media.
Deanna Zandt, DeannaZandt.com AlterNet: World. June 15, 2009. It's less about celebrity and more about connection, humanity and the ability to inject values into the wider culture in a populist way.
