From Air America to Senatorial candidate–Al Franken’s debut campaign commercial.

Interview w/Matt Bai of the NY Times magazine and author of The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Rmake Democratic politics. Matt has reported on the rise of the progressive blogosphere since the first Yearly Kos (and maybe a bit before

sigh…

“Who cares if you are good at anticipating events that will unroll in clear fashion without you? Why do we need people who know how this is going to play out in South Carolina when we can just wait for the voters to play it out themselves?”

“I’m convinced that some of the worst features of campaign reporting emanate from the kinds of psychological defenses that reporters erect to deal with their insecurities.”

How The Atlantic has gotten its groove back

Is it just me, or is there something Cold War-cartoonish about Russian VCs choosing to invest in a social networking site called “Badoo”? And what’s this paying to be popular B.S.??

David Simon of The Wire gives the true story of his Baltimore newspapering experience

Facebook as a platform for “microjournalism”

details on Obama’s online outreach

Chris Hayes strikes again!

Broadsheet to Chris Matthews: suck it

I actually wrote a letter to MSNBC news honchos in response to Chris Matthews and last week’s NH primary debacle and to Media Matters call to action. I NEVER write in letters, but enough was enough. Will post on buildtheecho.net.

Facebook: backed by wacky neoliberals and CIA venture capitalists? Read on!

Activists are serving as journalists–heaven forfend!

“The most memorable reporting I’ve encountered on the conflict in Iraq was delivered in the form of confetti exploding out of a cardboard tube. I had just begun working at the MIT Media Lab in March 2006 when Alyssa Wright, a lab student, got me to partic

“Something new is stirring on the left. Organisations whose horizons have in the past been limited to the nation, or the locality have found themselves connecting with groups engaged in similar struggles across national borders: trade unions resisting pri

“Something new is stirring on the left. Organisations whose horizons have in the past been limited to the nation, or the locality have found themselves connecting with groups engaged in similar struggles across national borders: trade unions resisting pri