Every single day, almost every mainstream news source in America offers live updates throughout the day on a few metrics which have almost no meaning for most...

For about ten years, Slate has had an intermittent series of articles that explain how to pronounce names of people who are in the news . As someone whose (fi...

I was away traveling for the past few weeks, and upon my return, I asked my Twitter followers a simple question : "I’ve been completely offline for a...

In his post this weekend , Rex Sorgatz points out that “mainstream media is hard”. It’s a truth I know firsthand — I used to work both in the music industry a...

Corey Spring has broken the details of a story that no one in traditional journalism had figured out yet. Wrestler Chris Benoit’s murder-suicide seemed to ha...

The gist: A lighthearted unscientific poll that was created as a PR ploy for a tech company is quickly evolving into a “real” news story, being treated as fa...

In case it isn’t obvious enough by now, contemporary newspapers should be thinking of information presentation in the context of applications, not just as docu...

A list of things that have brightened my day today: Really good support from NewsGator . I’m always glad people rave about our support team at Six Apart,...

Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC . I think they should hire Andy Ba...

If you haven’t read Malcolm Gladwell’s “ Something Borrowed yet, go ahead and read it. I’ll wait. I’ts more than 6500 words, but it’s considered required read...

Making the bold leap from merely waiting for Leander Kahney to watch Blogdex as this link rises, I’m actually going to try to make a Journalism Request: As men...

Since, as expected, AOL Time Warner is pulling its most popular magazines behind its subscription walls , I figure it’s only a matter of time until someone se...

While hanging out last night, as I am wont to do, With several ex-members of the Deja crew, I pulled Lane over and gave him the scoop On how I would...

Quite possibly the best news I’ve heard in ages, and one that gives me hope for the eradication of an affront that has tormented me since I was in grade school...

Doing what weblogs do best, bringing a personal voice to public events: One of the two weblogs at the Providence Journal , Subterranean Homepage News , has p...

Geeks are at their happiest when among those who understand them. One of the pleasant things about my job is being surrounded, to a certain degree, by geeks of...

Dammit, all the people I know around this town and no one could tell me Living Colour was going to playing together again ?...

I like Inside … useful, constantly-updated info, and a new, better design. (Although I think the new design is as attractive as the old one.) But the real gem...

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one thinking about combining AIM and Napster …...

Synchronicity. Just added a digital music news blog to my work website (will link as soon as it’s public) and today Blogger announces newsblogger , which is...

Oh poop . APB is the first website I actually liked that’s going under....

More proof that creating company names by committee results in pure crap ....

Here’s a guy who puts the loser in " sore loser "....

Go watch this ....

Perhaps you’ve already heard this, but AOL sucks ....

News Flash !...

More proof that all programmers (myself included) are just a bunch of big babies ....

Subset makes me wish I was going to be on the west coast some time soon....

I can’t believe World New York is closed down. What a great site it was, I will miss it terribly. Thanks, Grant ....

Mac or PC ? Of course a politician would answer like that....

Microsoft Blog? Didn’t know that the form was so adaptable, but there is actually a blog of sorts running on Microsoft’s typography site, it’s called Typograp...

Year2000.com auction on eBay found a hoax . Phew! Glad to see that....

Year2000.com domain draws $10 million bid. I suppose the idiocy just never stops....

An interestingly eventful day yesterday, as winter used to bring 6 inches of snow to the area, but we woke to 6 inches of mud . Sadly, I was too occupied wi...