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How Social Networking Influences Coming Out

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 1, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

The suicide of Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi is shining a spotlight on the ways in which online social networking can complicate coming out for gay and lesbian youth.

The iPad Is a Multimedia Device. So Where Are the Media? Be Patient.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 27, 2010 at 12:23 pm PT

As predicted, Steve Jobs showed off a new multimedia device today. One thing he didn’t show off, though: Much in the way of new media.

"Changing the World Through the Web": Video Interviews with Zuckerberg, Kutcher, Rospars and Shah

Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2009 at 7:19 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown moderated a panel at California’s Women’s Conference titled “Changing the World Through the Web” for a crowd of several thousand people. The panelists included Hollywood actor/producer, Katalyst co-founder and Twitter demigod Ashton Kutcher; Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, who leads the social networking site’s elections, breaking news and social change initiatives; Premal Shah, president of online microloan site Kiva.org; and Joe Rospars, founder and creative director of Blue State Digital and new media director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Here are video interviews I did with each of them.

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White House Launches Health-Care Response Site "Reality Check"

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 11, 2009 at 8:20 am PT

President Barack Obama again took to the Web to spread his message, launching a new section of the White House’s site Monday to counteract some of the criticism of his plans for a national health-care system.

D7 Video: Huffpo’s Arianna Huffington and Washington Post Exec Katharine Weymouth

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 28, 2009 at 10:45 am PT

Arianna Huffington and Katharine Weymouth–two of the most powerful women in contemporary media–meet onstage with D‘s Kara Swisher to discuss the future of media: old, new–and everything in between.

Kara Visits With PBS MediaShift Blogger Mark Glaser

Kara Swisher in News on February 18, 2009 at 9:01 am PT

Recently, BoomTown had a lovely lunch with PBS new media blogger Mark Glaser. Glaser is a longtime free-lance journalist whom I first noticed when he wrote a weekly column for the USC Annenberg School of Communication’s Online Journalism Review, post-Web 1.0 bubble, as well as for the most excellent “Media Grok” daily email newsletter for the now-defunct Industry Standard back in the midst of the froth. He was always able to cut through that with a clear-headed tone–while maintaining a respect for what was good about traditional journalism, as well as an excitement about the possibilities of new media. Here’s a video interview I did with Glaser about where new media is today.

Live From New York: ATD Hires Peter Kafka to Pen a New Media and Advertising Blog

Kara Swisher in News on September 18, 2008 at 12:11 am PT

Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and “steal” Peter Kafka, as the fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges–had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hog-tied Blodget so he could not make such spurious allegations!–it is true that SAI’s current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at AllThingD.com soon. He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City, starting at the end of October.

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So What Do I Know Now?–Part 2

Jill Sobule, Singer and Songwriter in News on August 22, 2008 at 1:17 pm PT

Last year, here on the Voices blog, I asked you all for your thoughts on how to finance and put out my next record. I got some swell advice, as well as some good wishes. Many agreed that the patronage system–asking fans to donate money–was a promising idea.

No Market Seen for Guitar Hero "Bronfman" Edition

John Paczkowski in News on August 7, 2008 at 3:40 pm PT

It wasn’t very long ago that Warner Music Group boss Edgar Bronfman Jr. was demanding a share of Apple’s iPod revenue and calling for mandatory peer-to-peer filtering and taxes on recordable media and MP3 players. So to hear him calling for higher royalties from video games like Guitar Hero and Rock Star isn’t all that surprising.