Wikipedia blackout to protect kidnapped reporter raises questions about...
Tomas Munita/The New York Times David Rohde in Afghanistan in 2007. There has been a lot of discussion on the web as to The New York Times and Wikipedia’s collaboration on the news blackout they agreed...
View Article15-year-old’s report sheds light onto teen’s media habits
Perhaps it’s the freshness of the author’s tone or the insight into the mind set of an age group many of us departed years ago, but independently of the reason, a Morgan Stanley report has become the...
View ArticleDark chapter of Ted Kennedy’s life sparks interest on the Web
The death of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy dresses the headlines of an absolute majority of US newspapers and news Web sites, but the person Web surfers seemed to want to know more about today is...
View ArticlePolaroid to bring instant camera back
In case you heard violins while lamenting how fast technology is changing the world when Polaroid discontinued production of its iconic instant camera early last year, weep no more – the camera is due...
View ArticleGore’s Current TV cuts 80 workers, shifts programming
Current TV, the San Francisco cable and Internet video channel co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, on Wednesday cut 80 workers and announced a big shift in its programing strategy. Current...
View ArticleIf crime in the city were hills
The cool thing about visual representations of data is how they can enhance our appreciation of numbers. The bigger a quantity is, the more difficult it is for our minds to wrap around its scale, so...
View ArticleInternet is “completely over”: Prince
Facebook, online banking and YouTube? Yawn. The Internet is so yesterday, according to pop music legend Prince, who in a recent interview characterized the World Wide Web as a big, fat, soon-to-pass...
View Article8x slower version of Justin Bieber song sounds… amazing
Justin Bieber is so cool. When you slow down his songs to an eighth of their original speed, that is. All I knew of Bieber until today was that he appeared in a somewhat uncomfortable SNL skit with...
View ArticleCameron Diaz: Most Dangerous Star on the Web
Even though Cameron Diaz proved to us in Charlie’s Angels that she can raise her foot to her face, she has never really seemed like a very threatening person. But it turns out that she is, in fact, the...
View ArticleStudy finds moves that tell good and bad male dancers apart
To the men in the audience: so what makes a good dancer? Alcohol? Salsa classes? Being related to John Travolta? It can be awkward finding yourself on the dance floor and trying to figure out what’s...
View ArticleFashion 2.0: Wearing your computer
Imagine playing a round of golf and knowing everything about your day on the links — score, average drive distance, fairways hit, putts per green, mulligans — without ever writing anything down. That’s...
View ArticleNo BART Monday? How about a boat?
Just in time for the start of a possible BART strike, boat-sharing service Boatbound has partnered with land-lubber sharing firm Uber to offer boat rides across the bay for commuters Monday morning and...
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