Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz described Obama’s address as “the most emotional speech I’ve ever seen him give.” We have just witnessed what could be a turning point in the Obama presidency. In many respects we can thank Scott Brown. For it took the humiliating loss of Ted Kennedy’s senate seat, and the even…
By Sasha Abramsky Late Sunday night, Obama’s presidency, written off by so many, was resurrected. In securing passage of health care reform in the House of Representatives — a holy grail for Democratic presidents going back to at least the New Deal years, and one seen by many as being impossible in the wake of…
The Herald in Scotland reports: Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran. The paper says it has seen a US Navy cargo manifesto that lists 195 smart, guided, Blu-110 bombs and 192…
The red shirts have become a powerful player on the political stage. They cannot be ignored anymore,” says Michael Nelson, a German academic who has written on Thai political parties. “Nobody would have imagined in the early 1990s that the rural people who are red shirt supporters today would have come out to show their…
YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information
United States is becoming a broken society. The public has contempt for the political class. Public debt is piling up at an astonishing and unrelenting pace. Middle-class wages have lagged. Unemployment will remain high. It will take years to fully recover from the financial crisis. David Brooks This confluence of crises has produced a surge…
Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter Written by Sarah Perez/ March 19, 2010 A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence. To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the…