Word: mainstreaming
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...added.The Berkman Center decided to develop its new server because the old one, which hosted over 500 blogs, was very successful, according to Palfrey. “We were working with what was at the time a very good program. But now that blogging has become much more mainstream, it was time for an upgrade,” he said. The blogs now use Wordpress software, rather than Manila.“At a technical level, it’s just much easier and a much more robust offering,” he said. “It?...
...comedic value of Colbert's speech, though if he were aiming to write something that would make Saturday night's entertainment funny by comparison, he certainly succeeded. Daou also succeeded at throwing down a bloggy gauntlet, and numerous other commentators took it upon themselves not only to deride the mainstream media for "ignoring" Colbert (true, aside from coverage in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and all the major wire services) but to argue that the relatively lackluster response Colbert received from his live audience was somehow empirically incorrect: He was funny, dammit, and if you didn't laugh...
...Left-leaning Bloggers Ready for Their Close-up? Dispatch: Inside the Yearly Kos fest in Las Vegas, progressives get lessons in going mainstream...
...blogospheric debate - whining, really - about the mainstream media's "silence" on Colbert rumbled into existence with a post by Peter Daou. Almost 18 whole hours after the performance, Daou determined that the shtick - or, as one commenter put it, "a work of staggering genius that could only be pulled off by a man with testicles the size of Alpha Centauri" - was being ignored by the mainstream media in order to "shield Bush from negative publicity." Daou even intuited why they didn?t laugh: because they were shamed "when Colbert put them in their place...
...shift in hip-hop towards synthesized beats was immediate,. Some artists managed to use parts of other musician’s work without running afoul with the law. They generally fall into three categories: anarchic, crazy, and rich. The recent wave of mash-up artists (which broke into the mainstream with DJ Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles hybrid “The Grey Album”) have brought a new vitality to sampling, but most of their work is produced and circulated below the radar of commercial music. An example of the second class, the wacky Australians...