The A.P. continues to come up with one dumb idea after another.
I have more on this craziness over at True/Slant.

“Today you are the media, it is your duty to report and keep the hope alive.”
- A recent Facebook status update by Mir Hossein Mousavi
Over the weekend, I touched on the significance social media is playing in this revolution, and Mashable has more details…
The status update, posted in Farsi and translated both in the Facebook [...]

o what extent did the Treasury Secretary and the executive branch permit misinformation and fear to be used to panic the Congress into abrogating their responsibilities to the American taxpayer and pass a very bad bill with very little consideration?

A quick hello to all of the Donklephant community.
I go by the somewhat-original moniker ‘The Pajama Pundit’ and I blog daily (hourly?) at ThePajamaPundit.com. Big thanks go to Justin Gardner for giving me a shot to post here. I’ve been an avid reader and fan of Donklephant for a long time and to [...]

I wrote about this plan recently, but today I find out that it may not happen.
Why?
Because it’s not “free market” enough.
Good times…
The FCC has been considering auctioning 25 megahertz of spectrum in the 2155MHz to 2180MHz band. As part of the rules for using the spectrum, the FCC plans to require license holders to [...]

That’s the plan proposed by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and if costs would come down as a result, all the better.

It makes sense to at least offer a basic connection to the information superhighway. Because the new economy will never be fully realized without everybody having access.
Me, I’ll stick with my fast internet connection and [...]

If you don’t know why this is good news, imagine paying for the internet as if it were cable. Sounds ridiculous right? Paying for specific websites within the internet?
Well, that’s been pushed by folks inside and outside of the FCC and now it seems like those who want to keep the internet free and [...]

Hi, this is Danielle Ivory at the American News Project in DC. Thanks to Justin Gardner for allowing us to post story items here! We’ll start doing this regularly next week.
Just by way of introduction, the ANP is an independent non-profit video news organization in DC. We produce pieces for the web, but [...]

There are a lot of options for this (CNN, Current, C-Span), but I’d say MSNBC’s video offering is the best by far.
However, there’s a new player in town called Hulu, and if you haven’t been to their site yet, you’re missing out. The joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. offers hundreds upon [...]

Haha, you really can’t make stuff like this up.
From Wash Post:
“McCain Wins Debate!” declares the ad which features a headshot of a smiling McCain with an American flag background. Another ad spotted by our eagle-eyed observer featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis declaring: “McCain won the debate– hands down.”
This campaign is seriously [...]

It’s pretty widely known that McCain is nearly computer illiterate, and that’s a troubling notion in and of itself. And with the technological challenges we’re currently facing and will be in the next 4 years, one would think that having a good grasp of receiving and sending email would be a prerequisite for being President.
However, [...]

John Murrell of Good Morning Silicon Valley has a good post up noting a recent New York Times interview where John McCain admits to Internet illiteracy. Murrell comments:
OK, if he were the 72-year-old guy down the block, I could cut him some slack. Whatever age you are, if you don’t have any use for the [...]

Despite all the advantages independent voters have — like never feeling beholden to a major party — we’ve historically had one serious disadvantage: finding each other. It’s not as if we had an umbrella organization that held annual conferences or nominating conventions; we’re independents, after all, and not exactly joiners by nature.
All that changed when God created the Internet. [...]

Back in Fall 2006, Joe’s website went down and his campaign blamed the rival Ned Lamont’s campaign…mostly because the netroots were backing Lamont and it was an easy accusation to make against bloggers.
Well, it turns out that not only did Lamont not have anything to do with it, but Lieberman’s people knew the real cause [...]

Andrys Basten writes in the comments section of my recent post about the Drudge/Hillary/Obama muslim garb photo smear…
If someone sends you an email, Justin, do you then tell people you “obtained” it?
Drudge never said he got an email from the Clinton staff, only that a Clinton staffer had ‘circulated’ it in email, which of course [...]

As decidedly anti-Clinton as he is, Sully still makes a sage observation today:
He’s about scoops, and gets them. But once you realize that the Clintons’ tax returns and the Olympics ceremony boycott stories came from the Clinton camp, do you still believe that photo of Obama in a turban fell off a turnip truck?
Hillary’s team [...]

Check out this article from Newsweek, circa 1995:
After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of [...]