Posts Tagged with ‘huffington-post’

I've been keeping my eye on Red Lasso since November 2007 when it first hit the social media news scene.  It had been in various stages of closed beta and development for a while before then.  The content wrangling site found rapid success and several early adopters, but quickly started to hit snags.
The premise behind Red Lasso is that users of the service can find, select and share multi media content. It is geared toward video and audio content, [...]

Skewz is the latest entry in the political news aggregation space, a sector that is getting way too crowded, even for a U.S. election year.
Skewz is designed to be Digg with a political slant; users can submit stories, and then others can vote on the purported political slew, using the U.S.-centric blue (for very liberal) to red (for very conservative) scale. Based on the ratings for articles, you can also see how a media outlet skews overall.
As Anthony Ha [...]

I generally don't consider myself a raging feminist, but I have had days, like today, where the gender divide seems so wide as to to be insurmountable.
Let's take the past month, for example. Within just the past few weeks, we've seen the launch of WoWoWoW, or however you want to attempt to type that, a “Huffington Post” just for women. Now, let's forget that The HuffPo is one of the biggest political (and just about anything else now) sites out [...]

There was a time when politicians and blogs did not go together. The first didn’t want to stoop down to the level of the second, where nobodies (bloggers) could hit at somebodies (politicians) and where the rules were very simple: anything goes. Talking points were the way to go. Staged town hall-style meet-and-greets with audiences firmly vetted for unruly truth seekers. That’s where the candidates for public office felt they belonged.
Today, things are a bit different. Blogs are just as [...]