Aaah the good old days. Remember waaaay back to 2007 when a couple of Google sellouts left to start this 140 character micro-blogging service called Twitter? We just laughed and laughed. Who on earth would tell someone, “I’m offline now and using the loo”? Are they crazy? Most “experts” (present company included) predicted this service [...]

(With apologies to Simon and Garfunkel’s “Here’s to You Mrs. Robinson” lyric.)
By Denis Campbell
If you thought President Obama’s speech was about healthcare reform, you were wrong. It was about twin elephants in the room. The USA is literally tearing itself apart at the seams socially because the leader of the free world remains a black [...]

UPDATED: We’re back and displeased! After living under a suspension suspicion with zero recourse other than e-mail to an unattended box @UK Progressive, @BostonTweets The Boston Phoenix (one of the USA’s oldest alternative newspapers), Mathaba.Net’s tech @Matahaba_Forum,  and hundreds (if not thousands of other bloggers and media outlets if one follows Twitter “chatter”) were all [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
United Airlines flight 921 was the outbound on 21 May. The crew was London-based, cheerful, helpful and the flight comfortably uneventful. UA 922 on 29 May was the return leg led by a US-based crew: surly, arrogant, griping, worrying aloud about job losses, lacking in decorum, full of silly and rigid rules, ridiculously [...]

By Denis Campbell
The US Republican Party may need an intervention. When a comedy news quiz show makes them apoplectic with rage, I worry that their stressors to try and remain relevant “in a world (big movie trailer voice) where only 20% of the people identify with them…” are overloaded to the breaking point. 
As a recent [...]

 
There will be no shortage of media analysis of last evening’s milestone Presidential Press Conference. A new phenomenon is the use of Twitter to fill-in the blanks behind the scene.
Ana Marie Cox http://www.twitter.com/anamariecox or simply @anamariecox for Twitter followers is National Correspondent for Air America Radio and contributor to both The Daily Beast and The [...]

By Denis Campbell
Welcome to the All-New UK Progressive! We begin our second year of operation in a very big way. As you navigate around the website a number of changes both cosmetic (our new logo with an American flag waving on the background of the Welsh dragon) and technical (all the live feeds) will become [...]

by Charley James
For years, Amazon.com has been a flawless on-line marketer.
It has an easy-to-navigate website, the search function is intuitive and fast, products are almost always in stock, lower price alternatives are displayed, targeted recommendations for additional purchases show up when customers buy a book, shipping is reliable and problems get [...]

 
Media Tweets are Serious Business
What sounds like an expensive turbo-charged sports car is actually the social media platform Twitter and all the cool celebrity kids are using it to build an audience. In this recession, with the shuttering of The Rocky Mountain News, huge newspapers on financial life support and advertisers pulling back on network [...]