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Layers of editors and fact-checkers at the Columbus (OH) Dispatch and others involved in its production "somehow" failed to detect the creation of an obviously false caption to a campaign rally photo of Donald Trump taken by a St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer. The photo, taken on Friday at Trump's St. Louis appearance by the Post-Dispatch's David Carson, had the following caption, apparently added surreptitiously, when it appeared in print at the Columbus Dispatch: "Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally in St. Louis. He was scheduled to go to Chicago for a rally, but canceled as his supporters became violent."  If any press...

NON-POLITICAL: So a co-worker sends a link to my boss who sends it to me asking 'CAN WE DO THIS??' with excitement. I gotta admin, the web page design looks pretty cool. As I can whip up some pretty good html/js stuff, at first glance, I am at a loss on how they did this. WARNING: just look at the page design, not the elitist content: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/07/31/good-jill-bad-jill-executive-editor-jill-abramson-queen-of-the-new-york-times.html

A little more than a year ago, Prashant Singh was an engineer at Microsoft's Mountain View campus working on projects including Internet-connected televisions and the Xbox. But for the past year, his career has taken a civil service turn. The 31-year-old engineer spent 2012 designing a public transit tool and other technology for the city of Detroit. Through the San Francisco nonprofit Code for America, Singh took a sabbatical of sorts. As fellows of the effort nicknamed the "Peace Corps for geeks," Singh and 25 other techies fanned out for a year across the United States to help municipalities develop...

There's a certain irony here. The 20th-century community organizer who used 21st-century tools for his people-powered White House campaign now finds himself besieged by citizens airing their grievances at 19th-century-inspired town-hall-style meetings. Barack Obama's top legislative goal hangs in the balance and his popularity is suffering as critics co-opt his tech-savvy organizing methods, tag him as a boogeyman and disrupt local gatherings on his proposed health care overhaul. Is the groundbreaking campaigner, whose White House political arm is aptly called Organizing for America, being outmaneuvered? "That's a fair summary of where things are at the moment," said Sanford Horwitt, a...

Virtual Diplomacy by: Bethany Stotts, June 01, 2009 All those who believe social networking technologies are superficial and undermine social communication move over, because Secretary of State Hillary Clinton believes that “virtual diplomacy” via Facebook and Twitter is the way to empower America’s “citizen activists.” Clinton announced at New York University’s May 13 commencement that the U.S. State Department would be forming a Virtual Student Foreign Service Initiative (VSFSI). “Working from college and university campuses American students will partner with our embassies abroad to conduct digital diplomacy that reflects the realities of the networked world and you can learn more...

Free Web 2.0, SEO, Social Networking, Digital PR, Internet Marketing Seminar In Israel By Herb Brandon Israel News Agency Tel Aviv, Israel ---- May 28, 2009 ...... A free Web 2.0 social networking seminar will be provided to the Anglo Saxon community in Israel next week. This digital PR and Internet marketing networking event will be held on June 4 in Kfar Sava, a northern suburb of Tel Aviv and is being advertised on Facebook. "We are seeking means to put unemployed and underemployed marketing, sales and advertising professionals who came to Israel from the US, Canada, England, South Africa...

United States News Agency Launches Operations Through Web 2.0 By Robin Rotfleisch Israel News Agency New York ----- May 26, 2008 ....... The United States News Agency, an on-line, non-profit, non-governmental news site has begun operations as it begins its search for both professional editors and reporters in the US. "The Internet has thousands of sources for news but very few of them were created for the Web," said United States News Agency publisher Joel Leyden. Leyden has worked as a journalist, international media consultant and Internet SEO Web 2.0 pioneer for 25 years. He is credited for co-creating Israel's...

January 03, 2008 (Computerworld) Three days ago, Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) campaign launched a new application on the Facebook social network that directs supporters to a page listing members with a connection to Iowa. The application directs Facebook users to urge those friends to the caucus tonight in Iowa, noting that "If they don't come out and support Barack, there's no guarantee he'll be the Democratic nominee." With tonight's Iowa caucus officially kicking off the election year, Obama and other candidates who have been using new Web 2.0 tools to raise money and galvanize support are kicking their efforts into...

A new slate of internet sites and start-ups intends to capitalize on the up tick in porn consumption.

A single bottle broke the calm, shattering in the late-afternoon sun. Then another...and another. :SNIP: Bob Tur, a pilot and photojournalist, hovered above the unfolding chaos in his helicopter, along with his copilot, his camerawoman wife, his lawyer, and a 9mm semiautomatic pistol... There was Larry Tarvin, who was pulled from his truck and kicked in the ribs, shoulder, and face. That's when the shots started. Tur's chopper began taking hits as the throng below pummeled another trucker, Reginald Denny, with a cement block, a tire iron, and a fire extinguisher.:SNIP: Over the years, he estimates, the Denny tape has...

Pet Palio is a cool new take on Pet Socializing and is the first Pet dating, matchmaking and socializing websiteon the www. Find your pet a companion, information, a well-matched mate and even connect with like-minded pet owners to offer advice and share information on your pets. This is totally wired but at the same time totally cool.

One of the coolest websites for pet owners that I just read about on the internet. Matchmaking Doggie style on the internet. Pet Socializing !!!

I am shamelessly begging for an invite to the Joost beta. In understand that current beta testers (beta is invitation only) have now been given an unlimited number of invites. I didn't get selected for the beta and no one that I know is in the beta so I haven't been invited. In fact, few people that I know have any clue about what Joost is going to be. Joost is pointing those who desire beta invites to check blogs for people who are giving out invitations. I searched FR and found nothing about Joost. So, let me be the...

Cape Town - Popular social-networking site MySpace will fail in a few years time, says self-confessed geek Jimmy Wales. Wales, founder of the free web encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is currently in South Africa for a digital freedom tour. MySpace, owned by News Corp and with reportedly more than 100 million registered users, "hurts my eyes", Wales says. "There's way too much advertising and they're not really respecting their own community." Wikipedia is another matter, he says. "We're not similar at all - you get involved in a community." Wales, who confesses to spending lots of time on the web - "I...

LinkedIn, the fast growing business networking site announced Monday that it has closed on $12.8 million in financing from Bessemer Venture Partners and European Founders Fund. The new round of funding will be used to conduct “forays into new markets” in Europe, testing out new ideas to gauge user interest, said Keith Rabois, VP of Business and Corporate Development at LinkedIn. This is the third round of funding for the Palo Alto, California-based company, whose CEO, Reid Hoffman is himself an angel investor in many Silicon Valley tech companies. Previous funders Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners have put $14.7 million...

The political left owns the internet like the right owns talk radio. You may not agree with that statement, and the fact is, most of the right blogosphere doesn't even realize it, much less have a clue as to why or how it happened. My own trip down the 2.0 rabbit hole began in earnest a few weeks ago after reading an excellent article from Robert Cox, and came to fruition after a post from this blog was picked up by BBC's "The Reporters." How could a small political blog in the right blogosphere be picked up by an international...

In today's DC Examiner, Olbermann Watch blogger Bob Cox sounds the alarm against what he (correctly) perceives as the conservative movement's failure to sufficiently become involved in creating the next generation of the internet. Now that the web has become a commodity, most conservatives have given up trying to be technology leaders, effectively allowing the left to create and control all of the major "web 2.0" resources like Technorati, Wikipedia, YouTube, and others. The failure of the Dean campaign has led too many conservatives to dismiss technology leadership as an overhyped part of a political campaign. But that's only half...

I don't know how many of you have heard of Newsvine but if you haven't let me introduce you to it (if you have skip to the next paragraph). Newsvine is a relatively new news site. What separates it from other news sites is its use of AP news stories and user submissions. Basically every news story that appears on the AP is automatically posted to Newsvine (they suggest that stories will appear there before other place because of lack of editorial intervention). Users can also "seed" stories from other web sites on the "vine". Finally users can also write...

THE ANCIENTS were good at resisting seduction. Odysseus fought the seductive song of the Sirens by having his men tie him to the mast of his ship as it sailed past the Siren's Isle. Socrates was so intent on protecting citizens from the seductive opinions of artists and writers, that he outlawed them from his imaginary republic. We moderns are less nimble at resisting great seductions, particularly those utopian visions that promise grand political or cultural salvation. From the French and Russian revolutions to the counter-cultural upheavals of the '60s and the digital revolution of the '90s, we have been...

NY Times suspended ethics for Web 2.0 plug Here's Johnny By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published Thursday 24th November 2005 01:12 GMT Back to the nebulous tech hype that Register readers love to hate. The New York Times appears to have breached three of its own ethics guidelines when it gave op-ed space to John Battelle last week to promote the Web 2.0 buzzword. Battelle, who produced the Web 2.0 conference with MediaLive, used the space to assure us that Web 2.0 wasn't really a bubble, in a curiously nervous and defensive piece. But the Times failed to disclose...