It was only nine months ago that the Arts page launched on the Huffington Post, and just five months that Huffington Post Arts' Design Thursdays went into full flight. We had yet to officially celebrate in New York and with so many designers gathered in New York City for the Amory Show, we decided to use the opportunity to celebrate achievements in one evening.

It was a three prong evening at the New Museum on Bowery in New York City. At 6:00pm, Kimberly Brooks, artist and founding arts editor along with Yvonne Force Real of the Art Production Fund and artists Richard Phillips and Josephine Meckseper, hosted 60-80 special guests, NY-based bloggers and editors at the New Museum's Sky Room overlooking downtown New York City.

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After two successful years bringing major players (including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton) in the water and sanitation sector together for World Water Day, it's a good time to think about taking those collaborative efforts outside the glass atriums of Washington DC and into the field.

In what amounted to a three-day conference hosted by a coalition of organizations like the Center for Strategic and International Studies, WASH Advocacy Initiative and the World Bank, sessions were held discussing issues of monitoring and evaluation and new innovations like FLOW, a platform for making monitoring and evaluation easier and scalable. In other sessions, education, health and environment sector leaders were recruited to join collaborative efforts in finding real solutions to water and sanitation challenges.

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The horrendous murder of a family from the West Bank settlement of Itamar is a terrible event of itself. But the event also represents a descent into madness and inhumanity in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that, at least for me, underscores inevitable and deep pessimism about the peace process.

The conflict is shot through with immorality by this point. Consider how the Israelis and Palestinians have reacted. There are reports of West Bank settlers responding as viciously and threateningly as they do when the government dismantles their outposts, as a "price tag" from the Palestinians in the area. The Israeli government itself has decided to construct 400 units in West Bank settlements to demonstrate its support for the settlers and show it will not be coerced into withdrawal. Ariel mayor Ron Nachman blamed left-wing journalists in Israel for contributing to delegitimization of the settlements and therefore setting the stage for such attacks.

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WASHINGTON -- CBSNews.com has been building a growing audience, passing ABC News and Fox News in online traffic late last year. 

Part of the success around the network's growth has been by streaming programming on popular live portals with channels on Livestream and Ustream, in addition to the network's live player.

Live programming engages an audience in a significant way, explains Mark Larkin, VP for CBSNews.com.  He says growth has always come from the video centric redesign of the site, search optimization and the deployment of social media tools.

CBS News also publishes clips on its YouTube channel.

Larkin was a participant at the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit at The Washington Post earlier this month.

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