"For crying out loud, this is the United States, not your country club."

"Ilse Aigner macht es vor, wir machen es besser."

"These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."

"What happened to my bonus? What happened to my job? What happened to my country? Why can't it all go the way it's supposed to go? You mean having a kid won't solve my marriage problems? Why don't these drugs make me feel better? Where's that goddamn waiter with my salad? Have you seen the stupid weather today? Is this really all there is?"

"Tyler Hicks has three rules when photographing in a dangerous, unstable city like Kandahar, Afghanistan. Keep moving, watch the crowd and always listen to your translator and driver."

"On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot."

"DataSF is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. While there is plenty of room for improvement, our goal in releasing this site is:
(1) improve access to data
(2) help our community create innovative apps
(3) understand what datasets you'd like to see
(4) get feedback on the quality of our datasets."

"Die Parteien rufen zum Kampf gegen die Onlinesucht auf. Ihr billiges Motiv: Sie wollen das linke Bildungsbürgertum mit seiner Abscheu vor Technologien und Popkulturen mobilisieren."

"OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government. Count cash and make change."

"Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours."

"Ich glaube nicht, dass uns der Himmel auf den Kopf fallen wird, wenn es Zeitungen irgendwann nicht mehr geben sollte. Natürlich ist es verdammt traurig, große Institutionen sterben zu sehen, vor allem wenn man mit ansehen muss, wie talentierte und engagierte Menschen ihre Jobs und Verantwortung verlieren. Dennoch glaube ich, dass diese Entwicklung in vielerlei Hinsicht ein fröhlicher Moment für den Journalismus werden kann."

"How do I find out if I'm registered to vote? Where do I vote? What's on the ballot?"

"The voting machine you'll encounter on Nov. 4 takes the most important right in a democracy — your right to vote — and makes it real. And just like the people who make and use them, machines aren't perfect. DVICE has researched all of the nation's voting machines to tell you what technology you'll be using on Election Day and what potential problems and vulnerabilities it might have."

"Die BR-Leute, ungeübt in der elementaren Disziplin des kritischen journalistischen Nachfragens, hatten sich offenbar darauf verständigt, die NPD als „Wolf im Schafspelz“ zu entlarven, und kamen auf die Idee, das dadurch zu tun, dass sie über den Schafspelz redeten."

"The American People. You hear an awful lot about them. Politicans, especially, are experts: they know what we want, need, feel, think, deserve, demand. So we thought we’d start keeping track of who’s claiming to speak for us, the American People. Who speaks for you? Quotes are automatically selected from all election-related wire service stories available through Yahoo."

"govtweets is an easy of tracking live conversations that occur via twitter on the topic of the Democratic and Republican Presidential tickets for 2008. Instead of tracking conversation generators, govtweets tracks specific content that is being discussed by anyone on twitter."

"A controversial issue such as the debate about the future of Iraq will typically result in a vast quantity of debate material in the media, legislative bodies and academia. Much of this is highly partisan, with selective and often fallacious use of arguments and a tendency to ignore or deprecate anything that might favor contrary viewpoints.(...)
What is lacking is a method for people to easily view and comprehend the debate as a totality, with different positions and arguments clearly juxtaposed in a consistent structure that reflects sound argumentation principles. Debategraph is designed to address this deficiency by allowing protagonists for different viewpoints to collaborate in developing comprehensive statements of debates."

"The experience of Web 2.0 suggests that if governments allow free access to the reams of data that is collected on the public's behalf then the public will combine and mash-up that data in new and revealing ways."

"Mit Neuwahlen ist es nicht getan, das Land braucht Hochschulen, die Berufspolitiker ausbilden, solche, die wissen, dass man vor wichtigen Entscheidungen abzählt und welches Datum wir haben."

"The Obama campaign treated us like pros - they called us back within minutes, set up interviews, got us press passes, went out of their way to make the campaign accessible (...) The Clinton campaign, in contrast, didn’t return a single phone call..."