Betting on News: AOL to Buy The Huffington Post by Jeremy W. Peters
One of The Huffington Post’s strengths has been creating an online community of readers with tens of millions of people. Their ability to leave comments on Huffington Post news articles and blog posts and to share them on Twitterand Facebook has been a major reason the site attracts so many readers. It is routine for articles to draw thousands of comments each and be cross-linked across multiple social networks.
U.S. has secret tools to force Internet on Dictators By Spencer Ackerman
When Hosni Mubarak shut down Egypt’s internet and cellphone communications, it seemed that all U.S. officials could do was ask him politely to change his mind. But the American military does have a second set of options, if it ever wants to force connectivity on a country against its ruler’s wishes.
Egypt, The Age of Disruption and the ‘Me’ in Media By Jose Antonio Vargas
We live in an era in which access to information — to all forms of media — is the most democratic that it’s ever been.
