This is certainly not light reading for a Monday morning, but if you have about 20 minutes to kill, the New Yorker’s Eric Alterman has written an epic-length piece on the demise of the American …

I wanted to add my two cents to what Matt discusses below. The insights of The Times’ Brian Stelter has generated some fascinating discussion about the power of word-of-mouth referrals on the news process, most …

Think young people don’t care anymore about politics? Think again.
Here’s a chunk from a New York Times story this morning that shows how the YouTube generation are finding, digesting and sharing political information with friends …

I was mildly surprised a few weeks ago to read that Turkey is one of the fastest growing markets for social media powerhouses MySpace and Facebook. Unfortunately, the Web 2.0 craze hasn’t caught just the …