Perlmutter Interviewed on KUCR Public Radio

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bB editor David Perlmutter was a panelist on the "Up to Date" show on KCUR Public Radio in Kansas City. Host Steve Kraske led a roundtable discussion of journalism and politics. The other guests were the Kansas City Star readers' representative Derek Donovan and Bottom Line Communications head John Landsberg. Originally posted September 13, 2008 at PolicyByBlog...
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Pigs and Lipstick: Personal Still Defines the Political

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It was only a few hours after John McCain announced Alaska Gov. SarahPalin as his running mate when bloggers started rumors about the unknown pick: Daily Kos blogger Inky99 suggested that Palin's fifth child may not be hers and was actually her 17-year-old daughter's. Citing a March 2008 story from the Anchorage Daily News where Palin announced she was seven months pregnant, Inky99 focused on an eyebrow-raiser: The "always-trim" governor didn't look pregnant. Rumors churned for a few days until Palin disabused rumors and revealed her daughter Bristol is pregnant, but news coverage still focused on Palin's personal life – as evidenced in the latest editions of news weeklies like Time and gossip magazines like Us Weekly (the latter of which featured Palin on the cover with "Babies, Lies and Scandal" as its headline, promising details of "embarrassing surprises"). Now, a week later, Palin's home life is still a hot topic: Blogger Mitch Marconi says it's all the media wants to talk about,...
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Perlmutter Speech at the Society for Scholarly Publishing

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David Perlmutter gave the Keynote Speech at the Society for Scholarly Publishing Top Management Roundtable Conference, Philadelphia, PA, September 4. The topic: " How Blogging Is Changing Our World: The Lessons from Politics. Some links: http://beyondthebookcast.com/btb-61-from-ssp-a-look-at-authors-ascendant-episode-1/ http://ssptmr.wordpress.com/ Originally posted September 16, 2008 at PolicyByBlog ...
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Start running for office when you’re a college freshman: Lessons of new media in the 2008 campaign

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Prompted by a discussion of privacy on social networking sites, I recently reviewed my Facebook page to see what could be used against me if I ran for political office. I stopped counting after I (quickly) found 10 things – pictures, wall posts, etc. – that could be used in a negative political ad. With respect to my bid, it'd behoove me to remove self-posted pictures depicting tomfoolery because of how bloggers, and in turn the mainstream media, could use them against me. As Dr. David Perlmutter talked about in a recent radio interview , politics is becoming an increasingly unattractive profession due to attacks via new media. I agree – though I'd slightly modify that idea: Politics is an unattractive profession because it has, what seems, forever been an ugly business; as a politician, one's chances of being mocked, hated and vilified are absolute New media just provide new ways to open yourself to more salacious (i.e., untrue or trivial) attacks. So, as evidenced in...
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Paleolithic Blogs

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Dave (askdavetaylor) Taylor gave the Keynote address of the Executive & Entrepreneur track at the Blogworld & New Media Expo 2008 in Las Vegas. (I am here as track director for the Citizen Journalism Workshop). Mr. Taylor made the comment that from the very beginning media--such as early cave paintings--has been biased in that it reflected what the creators wanted to show and not what they did not want to show. Interestingly I discussed this point in my book Visions of War (St. Martin's, 1999) which looked at the history of pictures of war. I noted that cave paintings, like those at Lascaux, France were the first physical "medium" of communications outside of the human body. They date back to the appearance of us--anatomically modern humans--and flourished during the Upper Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) era about 35,000 to 12,000 years. Interestingly, when researchers have counted the scenes, flora, and fauna represented in the images on caves you see a huge "bias."...
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