“To summarize: if you don’t like winter sports and dislike dipping bread into things, Davos doesn’t have much to recommend itself, at least in the winter.”

Not much to say about the following clip but “wow.” While the wildfires in Texas have mostly brought attention to opinion media types in the context of Governor Rick Perry, the following clip produced by Texas Parks and Wildlife certainly puts things in perspective.

Earlier this week, the New York Observer blasted Conde Nast – and, in particular, Scott Dadich, the company’s executive editor of digital magazine development – for the “stalling out” of the company’s much-touted strategy to transition its properties from print to the iPad. When that strategy was first proposed, though, Dadich was seen as a “savior” to the company – at least according to the hagiographic portrayal by…the Observer. But to truy judge the success or failures of the Conde Nast iPad strategy one must first look through the prism of the significant part that Adobe has played alongside.

Between his Tumblr followers and his Twitter audience, more people see Anthony De Rosa‘s updates than attended that Mets game. That’s what you call a platform. Who is this once and future king of social media, and why should you be following him on Twitter?

Some, notably a blogger at DailyKos, have suggested that the screen shot that Andrew Breitbart‘s Big Government ran when it broke the Anthony Weiner Twitter story is a forgery. Our resident expert, Philip Bump, reviewed their findings, and newly-released data about the original YFrog photo, and found evidence that strongly suggests Breitbart’s innocence, and supports Weiner’s contention that he was hacked. Here is Phil’s analysis of the DailyKos findings, and the newly-released cache information on the YFrog photo.

Jack Delano, a native Ukrainian trained as a photographer, graduated from college into the Great Depression.

He couldn’t have had better timing.

At a time when nearly one-in-five people were unemployed, Delano appealed to the Federal Art Project, a New Deal program that, in an ongoing effort to put people to work, sponsored public art throughout the country. Eventually, over 5,000 artists created 225,000 works of art for the program.

In 2005, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched a broad, unprecedented attack on union members. He proposed a series of ballot initiatives that would strip teacher job security, upend their pay structures, eliminate the use of union dues for political campaigns, and gut pensions that went to public safety officers killed in the line of duty.

And the labor movement rose up and beat him silly. Californians rejected every one of Schwarzenegger’s proposals.

Why is this story relevant today? Because NYT contributor Natasha Vargas-Cooper has decided that the reason people care about Wisconsin is because of the manly firefighters.

Earlier this year, a juror in a high-profile case came forward with a shocking allegation: after reaching a verdict, her peers conspired to cover up her dissent and to develop an untrue representation of how their decisions were reached. As evidence, she presented a number of emails between the jurors. The New York Times carried the story that Monday on its front page, below the fold; CNN hosted the emails on its site.

Alvin Greene has entered the modern era of political campaigning, apparently releasing a video that summarizes his policies. Folks, it does not disappoint. And it’s legit – at least according to the NY Times. Starting with a segment from one of his first interviews, in which an incredulous ABC reporter asks if he’s “up for [...]

“American journalism died today.” This bold pronouncement from Andrew Breitbart follows a story at Tucker Carlson‘s Daily Caller blog that outlines, as the title describes it, the “media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright“ in the aftermath of the April 16, 2008, debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

I don’t happen to know any leaders of the Tea Party, but I think I can guess their reaction when Mark Williams posted his letter mocking “Coloreds”: OY.

The fall-out: Williams has been booted from the National Tea Party Federation, according to spokesperson David Webb this morning on Face the Nation.

So. Mediaite is a year old. Or, rather, a year and six days old. Or 1.02 years. As the site’s self-appointed data geek, I thought that this first birthday deserved a special data-oriented tribute.

Let’s get one thing out of the way up front. No one doesn’t have an opinion on things they know something about. I may have no opinion on who the best NASCAR driver is (and I don’t) but that would certainly change if I started paying attention to the sport. Coming in to last month, [...]

On a beach? Relaxing at home? Wondering how to spend your post-BBQ stupor? Here is some patriotic Fourth of July weekend reading from Mediaite’s staff, columnists and contributors. Enjoy!

I’m not kidding. I’m not even going to do some wacky analogy to things that could be more patriotic, because whatever stupid amalgamation of eagles, M-16s, stock cars and bikinis I conjure up would never approach the video you’re about to see.

This month’s Playboy has a stunningly unusual and potentially disruptive article: an expose, purporting to be from an established Republican consultant, discussing how Washington hacks are controlling the political advances of the Tea Party.

Mediaite Office Hours is live today from Livestream.com today at 3pmET – with CNN’s Ali Velshi, John Gapper of the Financial Times, Mediaite columnist Philip Bump and more.

One week ago, while candidates around the country were in the midst of a last-minute push to get voters to the polls, it’s safe to say that Alvin Greene wasn’t. The nominee of the South Carolina Democratic Party for the U.S. Senate won by 17 percentage points, took 42 of 46 counties, and garnered over 100,000 votes. Yet no one has turned up a single TV ad, radio spot, piece of mail in which Mr. Greene presents himself to the voting public – just one lonely flyer in the possession of the candidate. So, how did he get elected?

Yesterday’s Newhouse School Mirror Awards were a collection of new and traditional media – and a good display of the convergence of the two.

Even though our own Philip Bump didn’t win (check out his Mirror-nominated column here), check out some notes from the event.

The world of traditional media has overturned in the past decade – and few have ridden the crest of this wave more savvily than Michael Kinsley. As a pundit on CNN’s “Crossfire,” editing Slate, experimenting with the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times, and now at The Atlantic, Kinsley’s philosophy has been an open desire to speak truth to power, and to bend the boundaries of where and how the media engages with its audience. Philip Bump examines the arc of Kinsley’s career, and just how ahead of the curve that arc has been.

If the polls are to be believed, Steve Poizner is getting trounced in his bid to be the Republican nominee for Governor of California.The barrage of ads by Poizner and his opponent, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, has been noteworthy even by California standards – or so say acquaintances who are excited about the primary today solely for how it impacts their TV watching habits. This is what happens when two mega-millionaires run against each other and their target audience is an entire state.

Memorial Day is intended to be an opportunity for us to remember those who gave their lives to defend America and protect our values, but remembering those lost on the battlefield alone leaves out those who made it home – and then began a whole new struggle.

Philip Bump had read about ferry disasters, and wondered how they weren’t more preventable. But he hadn’t thought much about it when he boarded a ferry in Zanzibar last week, headed to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. During that ride, it seemed pretty clear how ferry disasters happen. He’s glad to be back home in one piece to tell you about it.

Yeah, so I took my iPad to Africa. Contrary to what Gizmodo‘s Joel Johnson considers, don’t go selling your laptop just yet. But you know who liked it? The lions.

A picture may say a thousand words, but it’s much more difficult to index. Case in point: the New York Times archive. Doing a search for the address of Mediaite’s home office on Broadway turns up, disconcertingly, several turn-of-the-century fires* (one in 1879 and one in 1904 with a “peculiar quality of smoke”) and Broadway “ablaze” (with bunting, for the Centennial of the Constitution). But no photos.