Outside the Beltway

Wired proclaims, “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet.” It’s great linkbait but completely wrongheaded.

The GOP is playing a dangerous game with the anti-Islamic rhetoric that it seems to be courting these days.

Barack Obama has significantly widened his predecessor’s global war on terrorism, even if he’s no longer calling it that.

My SiteMeter statistics have suddenly become much less useful. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

A growing number of conservatives are in dismay about the state of their movement.

The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.

If it’s online, it’s forever.

The inside story about a crappy wireless network’s loveless marriage with a beauty queen phone.

While people keep flocking to Facebook in droves, the site has the lowest satisfaction rating of any e-business site.

WaPo’s Breaking News Blog highlights a story that is, well, hardly breaking news: inconsiderate people on the DC subway.

Sarah Palin tweeted, and took the wrong side in a story that doesn’t even deserve to be a controversy.

Stan McChrystal’s boys had “Team America” patches made up.

If Jon Kyl’s recent comments are any indication, Republicans haven’t learned their lesson just yet.

News headlines are increasingly divorced from the article content, with serious connotations for a nation of skimmers.

What do you do when you’ve reached Twitter Terminal Velocity?

We’re all unpaid employees of Facebook.

One year ago today, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska after only 2 1/2 years in office.

Miss yesterday’s opening round of the Kagan hearings ? You didn’t miss much.

Is the blog bubble bursting? Only if you’re innumerate.

A roundup of some of the more intelligent commentary on the Big Picture issues in the brouhaha of the day.

Ezra Klein is shuttering JournoList.

You know who would be a good replacement for him at the Right Now blog? David Petraeus.

Sharing your unvarnished thoughts on a listserv is just asking for trouble, as Dave Weigel is the latest to discover.