Americans Driving Less
by CNN says that with gas prices inching perilously close to $4 per gallon, Americans are driving less. Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove …
Category: Technology
Blogging Exposed
Emily Gould’s piece about blogging for Gawker last year is a love-lorn letter to the business of blogging and what it can put a person …
Telco Immunity Deal Coming?
That’s what Jane Hamsher thinks. According to the ACLU, there is rumor of a backroom deal being brokered by Jay Rockefeller on FISA that will …
Discrimination / Law / Stupidity / Technology
Roommates.com: Another Bad Judicial Decision
Evidently we needed another inept ruling from the west coast circuit to remind us that justice is a three-ring circus out that-a-way. The LA Times …
Censored?
Michael van der Galien, my boss at PoliGazette.com, just emailed and said that the site has been suspended by the hosting provider, one alfahosting.be. Michael …
Wikipedia’s Authority
ValleyWag, the National Enquirer of the tech industry press, outed Jimmy Wales, founder and driving force behind Wikipedia, over the weekend for using his position …
A New Kind of Political Media
Dave Winer, who’s well known for his work in the technology field, particularly as a pioneer with the RSS and XML-RPC tools that underlay many …
Microsoft Buyout of Yahoo?
The Washington Post says Yahoo may be acquired by Microsoft: Yahoo was one of the first companies to popularize Web searching, and it still attracts …
Climate Change and the Fear Factor
John Tierney has an excellent article in the NY Times science section about global warming and the science and reporting behind the climate change scare. …
Solar Array Feasible
The BBC has a cool article about the relative feasibility of using a low-orbit solar array as a source of renewable energy here. A recent …