. >> de dubie has presented its annual blog awards honoring sites -- dw has presented its annual blogs. >> an iranian exile was cited for building an important bridge to the people in iran and the events taking place in his home country. the awards also recognized bloggers in egypt, china, and bangladesh. we spoke to one of the jury members for the awards. we asked him to tell us more about the winning entry. >> the winning blog is an iranian blocker who started about nine years ago. in the short life span of the blogosphere, that is quite some time to the u.s. in iran and got arrested because of the content he published on his blog and also as a result of his work as a journalist. he had family disasters and also an issue with his cancer. then he was able to go through all of that and keep blogging. then he left iran and went to the u.s. and started working as a journalist. what is interesting about this blog is that while being a journalist and being in the mainstream media, he kept blogging and has kept his connection to the blogosphere. we found that to be very valuable and signif

at that point i was blogging. one of the things i do on the blog is i always talk about what i'm reading. so there would be these kind of faint references to the civil war and one day someone said, you should really check out -- this was just an anonymous comment -- you should really check out dave master son's battle cry of freedom. i can't even give words to what happened after that. in short, i'm here largely because of the internet, and it's a weird thing because for most of my career i was a print journalist. but the internet offers a kind of, obviously, interactivity. if it's a properly curated conversation, the crowd is much smaller than you think it is if you clear the way. people can tell you what you're wrong about, what you're right about, and they will be intelligent. i came to most of your works through the internet. some guy e-mailed necessame and should read this guy david blight. it was on the internet. it blew me away. we have a very different relationship. i don't have to presume to be right. the

she writes on her blog, diary of an angry stripper.o comment from the houston chronicle but we are keeping an eye on what might come next. she said she did a great job. >> i'm not touching that one, jon, thank you for the opportunity. >> i'm not sure if there is a moral clause

she writes on her blog, diary of an angry stripper.o comment from the houston chronicle but we are keeping an eye on what might come next. she said she did a great job. >> i'm not touching that one, jon, thank you for the opportunity. >> i'm not sure if there is a moral clause but clean dollar bills thrown at her. >> and she was outed by a rival newspaper. >> thanks to our panel. i'm jon scott. see you next week. >> john: i wear these chains because we need to wake people up. america is on the road to serfdom. >> i say that because politicians are spending us in ruins. they do ridiculous things like letting thousands of feet of offices building to go waste.

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in 2007 this leftie leaning idaho blog posted a blog entry critical of mr. van der sloot.said they received a letter from his lawyers telling them to take the blog post down within 24 hours or they would find themselves sued. they did take down the post. they did not want to be sued. when they posted a copy of the lawyer's letter in order to explain why they had taken down the blog post, mr. van der sloot sued them. sued them for copyright infringement for posting the letter. when we reported on him in february, when we reported on him and his politics and his role, surprise. we got contacted by him and his lawyers. first they requested that we take down the web version of the segment that we did. they asked that we remove it from the internet. no. they also tried to insist their written communications to nbc news about this matter were confidential and not for publication. of course, we didn't enter into any confidentiality agreement with them. you're writing a letter to a news organization. with awe due respect, we can do anything we want with that. that's the whole part

she writes on her blog, diary of an angry stripper.o comment from the houston chronicle but we are keeping an eye on what might come next. she said she did a great job. >> i'm not touching that one, jon, thank you for the opportunity. >> i'm not sure if there is a moral clause but clean dollar bills thrown at her. >> and she was outed by a rival newspaper. >> thanks to our panel. i'm jon scott. see you next week. >> judge jeanine: she was a popular radio host known for her activism on behalf of veterans. so who killed her? and where is gavin smith the successful mo movie eck eastboundtive who distributed movies like avatar and titanic. he just vanished.

and four, build blogs. there are a lot of blog platforms to choose from. some are free and some cost a monthly fee, and whatever you choose, make sure that you have posts to share with linkedin, twitter and google plus links. >>> five, contribute to the community forums, volunteer to speak at common frenference eve within your field. >>> and if you have items in similar prices, how do you get the sale? international sales training expert grant cardone is founder and ceo of three businesses and also a new york times best selling author of "sell or be sold" and how to get your way in business and in life. great to see, you grant. >> yes, great to see you, j.j. we will concentrate on business and then on life. >> okay. >> if i have a product and i want to put a high price tag on it, you say that is okay. i don't necessarily have to get into a price war or i don't want to get into a price war, but give it a wow experience. what is that? >> well, it is a major mistake made by small entrepreneurs and business owners to think that they have to underprice their pr

he has many fans on his blog as i have learned. in fact, at least a few years ago, i started hearing from friends, tom thurston, my colleague is one of them, who kept saying, you have got to start reading this guy. he's talking about your books a lot. so i started reading him. he is the author of a memoir called "the beautiful struggle" about growing up in west baltimore. that memoir is among other things a father and son story, a riveting father and son story. ta-nehisi's father was a black panther and also a vietnam veteran. it is a memoir that seems inspired by -- you can correct this if you want -- the era of hip-hop. and it seems to be in some ways a search for a kind of nonviolent masculine identity, if i could put it that way, in the '80s and '90s when he was on his way to howard university. he is a journalist who's worked for the village voice, "time" magazine, "washington post," a lot of other papers. he is also writing fiction about which he spoke earlier today in a student form. and most recently among the other kind of

an interesting question and here to answer that and more is francine mckenna she is author of the blog read a regarding the auditors and a columnist for forbes and american banker and she's done a really good interesting work on all of this stuff and first of all francine thank you so much for being on the show and welcome to capital account thank you thanks for having me absolutely now let's just touch on facebook because we cannot avoid it today it is everywhere we've talked about it on the show before we've talked about it with people like reggie middleton who was not enthusiastic about this company at all said this is a story stock and overvalued all these things i know you have some concerns about facebook what are they. talk about anticlimactic i think of it a sort of more with a whimper than a bang although they'll be pundits that will talk about how it all worked out really well and they'll talk about the numbers in the billions but it turned out that at the end i think the underwriters had to support the price just so that it stuck at thirty eight dollars the opening price so

i think you have what, 53 million blogs. >> 55. >> 55 million blogs. >> joe's daughter. >> it startedeare's, let's put it that way. you said you're starting to try and make some money here. when do you think you can be profitable? >> i don't know exactly when it will happen. we're just starting the sales cycle right now and will sell the blog post as an ad unit. we're saying come be bloggers, blog, be active in the community, creative, get popular and we will give you tools to promote yourself and accelerate that. >> are people latching on to that, saying, yeah, i want to do that? >> so far so good. for us, the biggest opportunities are big brands with a national or global audience, entertainment, fashion, luxury, auto, that sort of thing. they want to tell a story and want to do something creative people will remember. that has the big thing that stinks on internet right now. most advertising is direct responses targeted to the thing you're searching for or the story you're reading or it's really unmemorable. we're trying to say tumblr is this very creative community and come and tel

at that point i was blogging. one of the things i do is talk about what i'm reading. so you know, there would be these faint references to the civil war and someone said you should really check out, this was a comment, anonymous commenter, you should check out james mcpherson's battle cry of freedom. and i can't even -- i can't give words to what happened after that. but in short, i'm here now largely because of the internet and it's a weird thing because i put for most of my career as a print journalist. the internet offers a kind of interactivity, if it's properly curated conversation. people can tell you what you're wrong about, what you're right about. and they will be intelligent. i think i've gotten some -- i came to most of your work floos the internet. some guy e-mailed said hey, this guy david blithe has a series. it was on the internet and i watched and it blew me away. this was recommended to me by the crowd. we have a very, very different relationship. i don't have to presume to be right. they can be right, they can be directing me. i can take a seminar fr

free blog as well a video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com. all right guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to the f.b.i. for perpetuating a pointless war on activists now we all know there are post nine eleven world terrorist now that's probably the most widely used word that's thrown around carelessly by our government and our media but the f.b.i. is taking this to an extreme they use it extremely loose interpretation of terrorism when applying it to environmental activists so it's all part of this trend led by corporate interests the government and law enforcement those who highlight gross mismanagement of natural resources environmental problems while they're increasingly prosecuted in extreme ways and it's something we've spoken about before on this show like for example this conversation that i had with potter from the blog green is the new read this campaign by corporations and industry groups to label activists is eco terrorists to push their political agenda they've been waging p.r. campaigns they've

oh lucky for you we have the original squid hunter on the show today reggie middleton a boom bust blog will be joining us let's get to today's capital account. all right let's start with the u.s. jobs because as reggie middleton puts it anyone excited about them is on hope here are a few reasons why first the obvious with the latest report only one hundred fifteen thousand jobs were added in april while economists were expecting one hundred sixty five thousand according to bloomberg take a look at this the employment rate of the population ticked up a little notch but as you can see there is still a huge to looking back a few years and according to karl denninger of the market ticker this is kind of the key figure that you need to be paying attention to and let's take a look at another key figure the number of people don in the labor force in april rose by more than five hundred thousand putting it to the highest number on record looking back to look at that more than eighty eight million folks eight point four now if you're not in the labor force you are not counted as unemployed and

last night he explained how this one blog post about him as a romney campaign official, he explained how this has ruined his life and his business. >> did it impact your business directly? >> it did right away. the first day we had phone calls and customers that wanted to cancel. >> they wanted to cancel because you're a lousy guy. >> they said that i hated gay people and i was anti-gay. >> anybody who was buying your products that were gay said i'm not buying it. they smeared you. they slimed you. >> they made that up out of whole cloth. why would they say this untrue thing about you? it's not really a rhetorical question. that's a question with an answer which mr. o'reilly had in his fingertips in the form of transcripts from his own tv show. mr. van der sloot appeared on the o'reilly factor in august of 1999 to talk about his public campaign against the gay. he just helped finance these billboards to go up across idaho warning about a public television documentary that promoted the quote homosexual lifestyle to idaho kids. he appeared as a guest to bring the homosexual lifestyle i

of the blog posts, earned me svitriolic commenters. surprised that 6500 people took the time to sign a pettation against me. i was surprised that the chronicle came to the decision. and. >> paul: one of the criticism you didn't read the dissertations and you did based on the titles and description of them. is that a fair criticism. >> the new standards you have to read an entire dissertation before writing a 500 word blog posts would be absurd and most would agree. the piece i wrote was in response to a front page extensive article in the chronicle itself, but interviews the people who wrote the dissertations and asked them why they wrote it. >> paul: you were hired explicitly to be a conservative voice in what is a fundamentally left leaning magazine. >> yeah, i mean, i was -- you know, the chronicle certainly knew what i had written in the past and published a few and i bring the viewpoint. >> paul: what was the reaction from the editors when the criticism started. >> they asked me to write a response to the critics a couple of days

maybe she has a blog or twitter feed where people are connecting with her.ay look i have done all of these catering jobs, i have all of these happy customers. now i want to take the next step and open a restaurant. >> we're seeing more restaurants get their start as food trucks and once they've established that loyal following, go into a brick-and-morter location. more generally i think we are hearing from a lot of businesses that it's getting tougher to get a loan to get some outside investment. one thing she didn't mention is community banks or credit unions, which weren't swept up in a lot of the financial mess and are lending to small businesses at a higher rate. so something to consider for everyone out there. >> the kick-starter kind of crowd-sourcing option. it's used frequently by musicians and filmmakers. amanda palmer raced 600,000 in eight days for her indy record. >> we did a story in new york about a restaurant that gave away comfort dollars, you buy $500, you know, give me $500, i'll give you $600 worth of food when it opens. >> like entreprene

now getting a baby by using facebook and blog sites has grown in popularity as well. cheryl has a local couple's story of online adoption. >> reporter: a bouquet kept close by. they married four years ago after meeting online. a bold step brought them together, a bigger one could make them first time parents. >> it's a roller coaster that we have decided to get on. >> reporter: the ups and downs started when becky was just 16, years before she walked down the aisle. she was found to have a condition that cause hormone imbalance, that would keep her from getting pregnant. they took a shot at fertility before going into adopting. >> we think that you know facebook and twitter and all of these media platforms are like -- a great balancer. my 85-year-old grandmother using facebook as does my 13- year-old neice. . >> reporter: it made sense. they went online. facebook, twitter, a personal website and a blog all hold their story. >> praying for the child meant for you. god bless you. >> reporter: it can turn into a case the baby blue itself they pick a >> i think the risk h

check out my blog about what president obama did not say last night in afghanistan. go to cnn.com/situationroom. let's go to jack cafferty right now. he's got "the cafferty file." >> the dysfunctional disaster which is washington, d.c., which only get worse after november's election. moderates are becoming distinct in that town. republicans and democrats are headed to the exits. the study by political scientists that shows congress is more polarized now than at any time since reconstruction after the civil war. the sad part is our current political environment encourages these extremes. 24/7 cable news, super pac money, special interest groups, activist blogs. they all cater to the idea logs. the big losers here, of course, are the american people and the two parties much too busy fighting to offer any real solutions or look at what's coming on the horizon and don't kid yourself. we're in trouble here. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is warning congress that the fed will not be able to undo the damage if the economy, if congress mismanages what he calls the fis

>>bob: it is a liberal manage -- blog. >>greg: when i was there no one was paid.mberly: but why is arianna huffington? >>greg: she fooled we celebrities into thinking they were smart. and they would say i can showen i am not just an actor and everyone would laugh at them. boy, he is stupid. >>eric: i talked about a former marine denied a refund by spirit and this morning "fox & friends" took that, ran with it and did something very, very cool. watch. >> because so many of our viewers felt so bad you did not get a refund, well, here's the money. >>guest: thank you, it is not about the money, i will donate this to wounded warriors. but i thank you. >> we thank you. we understand what you are up against. >> pretty touching. >>bob: it was touching, a wonderful thing to do, and spirit airlines deserves, anyone who watches "the five," who decides to get on that airline, please do not do it, boycott them, boycott them into bankruptcy. >>eric: i am not in favor of boycotts but the news is we are getting it out there that maybe we can affect change and we tried to call "sp

first of all tell us what the blog is. >> comedy central's indecision is the blog for political comedyrted -- election because obviously there was a lot to talk about online as well as on the television and in the past year, we have really grown. we have added video photo galleries, we have launched an app for iphone and ipad. we're everywhere you wanted to be on the internet. >> we were talking about the latest poll. you did a piece about the fox poll. because oddly i didn't really hear that reported on fox. you say, oopsy, someone at fox likely got fired for this. >> it does happen. everyone makes mistakes then. we're all human. >> i'm sure they will have someone in the khron department making that note. i heard everybody on fox news saying there is some other poll saying see there is no war on women. because romney in that poll was sort of like they were dead even or romney was one point ahead. >> i feel like it's really early to be taking these figures to the general election. whatever people are saying now give it a month, two months we have a long road ahead of us. obviously for

. >> john: ironically on a blog called brainstorm? >> the comments start to pour in the next few days. this was not new. i was writing for the chronicle for about a year and there was always obnoxious people that wrote in. by monday the chronicle asked me if i would respond. i'm a racist and i don't have a ph.d. but i didn't read the entire dissertations before writing the blog posts. of course i didn't read that before reading 500 word blog post. this is an absurd standard. 6500 people asked me to be fired from my gig at the chronicle. >> john: and you were? >> at first the reaction from the chronicle was they said we understand you are upset but we see this invitation to debate. that was the end of the week. then four days went by and then they fired me. >> john: so maybe you are a racist. it makes me wanted to ask your relatives if you are a racist. your closest relative happens to be in the audience, your husband jason, could you join the table. is he is a racist. [ applause ] >> if is she is a racist. she has an odd choice in hus

. >> john: ironically on a blog called brainstorm?tart to pour in the next few days. this was not new. i was writing for the chronicle for about a year and there was always obnoxious people that wrote in. by monday the chronicle asked me if i would respond. i'm a racist and i don't have a ph.d. but i didn't read the entire dissertations before writing the blog posts. of course i didn't read that before reading 500 word blog post. this is an absurd standard. 6500 people asked me to be fired from my gig at the chronicle. >> john: and you were? >> at first the reaction from the chronicle was they said we understand you are upset but we see this invitation to debate. that was the end of the week. then four days went by and then they fired me. >> john: so maybe you are a racist. it makes me wanted to ask your relatives if you are a racist. your closest relative happens to be in the audience, your husband jason, could you join the table. is he is a racist. [ applause ] >> if is she is a racist. she has an odd choice in husbands? >> i would