November 20, 2012
According to legend, in 1788, just a year before the onset of the French Revolution and but a mere five before she’d lose her head completely, Marie Antoinette responded to the news that French peasants were out of bread: “Let them eat cake.”
August 21, 2012
It seems fairly clear at this point: “the Internet” consists, for the vast majority of people in the United States anyway, of Facebook and Twitter.
March 6, 2012
January 18, 2012
Prominent destinations on the Internet–including Google, Wikipedia, and Craigslist–went varying shades of “dark” Wednesday in a loosely coordinated effort to raise awareness of two bills currently making their way through the United States’ notorious “Do-Nothing Congress.” SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) are bills being considered in the House of Representatives and Senate (respectively) to address the contagion of copyright infringement apparently fostered by a free and open Internet.
January 12, 2012
Arthur S. Brisbane has what one might think of as a pretty good job. He’s the Public Editor (or, what was once known as the “ombudsman”) at The New York Times. According to the job description posted on the Times’ website, the Public Editor “responds to complaints and comments from the public and monitors the paper’s journalistic practices.” That is, he gets to represent the public interest (my emphasis) in what goes into “the newspaper of record.” Fully independent of the paper’s owners and publishers, the job description goes on to note, “(h)is opinions and conclusions are his own.”
January 1, 2012
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. The dark decade of the two thousand aughts is now a full year in the rear-view mirror and for some, the time has never been better to move forward with a foot on the gas.
August 25, 2011
This post was originally published at Cult of Mac
July 7, 2011
Say what you will about Barack Obama, the brother keeps in touch.
June 22, 2011
The Internet and technology continue to–in the immortal words of the great Muhammad Ali–stun and amaze ya, don’t they?
June 13, 2011
The accompanying chart tells you just about everything you need to know about where we’ve been and where we’re going–as far as the U.S. economy is concerned, anyway.