Times are tough for poor Rupert, so he has decided the time is coming to charge people to read his news: Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation‘s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ”malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall […]
Like it or not, copyright infringement is against the law. So what happens when a copyright holder has their content removed from YouTube? Well if you are a Republican you urge your readers to ignore the law: In the meantime, I encourage every reader with a YouTube account to upload this video to YouTube. I […]
There has been talk about this for weeks now, but it looks more and more like the FTC is going to put some regulations in that could effect bloggers: In the new proposed rules, The Federal Trade Commission also addressed advertising in new media (Web 2.0). Essentially, if an advertiser pays a blogger to write […]
It turns out an Islamic extremist website was actually being hosted right here in the Untied States: On March 25, a Taliban Web site claiming to be the voice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” boasted of a deadly new attack on coalition forces in that country. Four soldiers were killed in an ambush, the […]
Here we go with Bill O. sending out his goons again. This time Amanda at Think Progress was the target. Read her entire account of what happened here. Perhaps its time for O’Reilly to be tested. I have done some work in television in the past and when you tape someone you need a release […]
It looks like Harry Reid may not be going anywhere in the near future: The lieutenant governor of Nevada says the state attorney general’s office intends to have him indicted over how he handled a college savings program as state treasurer. Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki said Monday he believes he is being targeted for political […]
The wingnuts have been in an uproar over a “news article” posted by some group called African Press International, in which Michelle Obama allegedly calls the organization and goes on a rampage. Some of the more notable journalists on the right have reported this is entirely false, yet the wingnut hysteria continues. Here’s what they […]
Blogger Interrupted caught some video at a Palin rally in Strongsville, Ohio. Palin/McCain is good at putting out a lynch mob and they love doing it. Its really sad that people are so influenced by lies and rumors. People like this exemplify the reason America is on the lower rung of the international education scale.
Jake Tapper has posted a great blog entry bringing up some key points about the McCain campaign’s response to McCain not being in the “cone of silence“: 1) The McCain campaign’s vitriol against NBC’s Andrea Mitchell is odder still when you consider that the McCain campaign’s blogger Michael Goldfarb was quoting her very same reporting […]
This is a pretty amazing story. Olive Riley of South Wales, Australia, was considered the world’s oldest blogger. She died at the age of 108. I wish we had more seniors blogging and sharing their life experiences. It would really open our eyes to more in the world.