Update: The Mashup Is On (US News & World Report) Huffington Post has informed the News Blog that the Democratic Candidate Mashup is now fully mashupable. Here's Arianna Huffington's explanation of how it was always going to be a mashup....more...A Messed-Up Debate Mashup (US News & World Report) Internet and political junkies were excited by the prospect of the first ever online-only "mashup" presidential debate sponsored by Slate, the Huffington Post, and Yahoo! this week. That is, until they saw what it was....more... Dem Debate Video Widget Gives Power to the People (TechNewsWorld.com) In conjunction with the Huffington Post Web site and online magazine Slate, Yahoo is offering users the ability to grab video clips of "debate" answers from Democratic presidential candidates and use them to make their own mashups. Billed by Slate as the "first-ever online-only presidential mashup," the endeavor features videotaped answers to serious questions fielded by Charlie Rose and ......more... Elsewhere: Spitzer, Murdoch, Lamont (The New York Observer) Mark Green wrote on Huffington Post that ?Seeing Rudy Giuliani fulminate against Hillary Clinton and Moveon for "character assassination" and "political venom" this week was like watching Larry Craig denounce homosexuality.? Eliot Spitzer will be the keynote speaker at a conference on local government. Liz wonders what changes to the Freedom of Information Laws are needed. Dan ......more... Out Loud: September 16, 2007 (US News & World Report) "Like, I've got cancer. I want to fight cancer, and I want to spend time with my family."...more... The Lukewarm Truth (Washington Post) Capturing reality is harder than it seems. As Gen. David Petraeus's long-awaited testimony last week failed to sway the debate over the war, partisans on both sides castigated the media for what remains a blurry picture of Iraq. Why, they ask, can't journalists cut through the fog and deliver an......more... No Splicing and Dicing for Online Presidential Debate (NPR) A Democratic debate put on by Yahoo, The Huffington Post, and the online magazine Slate will not be the interactive process as expected. Pre-recorded interviews with the candidates will still be posted, but cannot splice and dice the video footage....more... U.S. Democratic presidential candidates hold unprecedented Internet debate (People's Daily) All eight U.S. Democratic presidential candidates held their first Internet-based debate Thursday. Co-sponsored by Internet search engine Yahoo, the Slate online magazine and the Huffington Post blog, the so-called "mashup" is widely re ......more... Cenk Uygur: "3:10 to Yuma" is Not Gay (HuffingtonPost) As soon as I admitted that I love Russell Crowe and Christian Bale - and that I would definitely see 3:10 to Yuma just because they're in it - I knew I was going to get the homoerotic tag. Now,......more... |