Can media organizations leverage the social web to get story tips faster than they could through traditional methods? A number of news aggregators believe so and are looking to Twitter for tips. Six weeks ago popular tech news aggregator Techmeme began accepting story tips submitted on Twitter. Toda...

Netbooks, iPhones, Android mobile devices. Personal computing around the world is converging into the hand held device and the combination of price point, sophistication and network effect could help deliver more of what many early supporters of the internet were aiming for - democratization of medi...

These days it's all about making your free web site "go viral" right? Maybe that was the all-too-common business plan in recent years - but many people were uncomfortable with that vision at a time of relative economic well-being. You can imagine how crazy such a plan sounds now. Well-known PR pro J...

From TPM Reader RB ... I'm glad to see TPM picking up on the question of what is to be done about the bondholders. I've had the feeling for a few weeks that this is the real Gordian knot the Administration can't bring itself to cut, for fear that the rope is holding up the roof above all of us. Here...

In all the debates we're having about what to do about the banks we don't seem to focus enough (at least not in the popular press) on the fact that almost all the questions come back to a single question: what to do about the bondholders. As that J.P.Morgan report we referenced this morning put it, ...

Search is a versatile tool, but if you've had a hard time integrating all the awesome niche search engines available into your workflow (Google is so easy to access!) then the following instructions might be perfect for you. I've put together a multi-step process that uses two Firefox plug-ins and s...

On Friday I mentioned how an outfit called the "International Swaps and Derivatives Association" (ISDA), a DC lobby one imagines might in line for a bit of rebranding, got some text in the 2005 bankruptcy bill that put derivatives counter-parties (see AIG catastrophe) at the front of line in bankrup...

When you invite insurance and derivatives experts to explain their area of specialty and critique each other's understanding of the subject matter, be ready for an afternoon with a lot of squinting and head scratching. (ed.note: For more on this whole AIG issue, do see this Wednesday post by Barry R...

A few readers note that in place of CNBC's gonzo cheerleading and affective disorders, there is Bloomberg TV for financial news, which does not suck. Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales are the planet’s largest creatures, yet we hardly ever see them. Their calls tr...

Over the last week, there's been a growing realization that President Obama's budget makes big structural changes to the federal budget and thus to the federal government in general. As the preferred cliches have it, he's going long or swinging for the fences. And in the last few days we've begun to...