It's happening to more and more of the blogs I read: the personality, quirkiness and unique voice that once made them so appealing to me are fading. In their place, Continue reading »

To the list of things you worry about when you're writing a blog post or updating your status ("How will this affect my Technorati ranking?" "Will Wil Wheaton finally retweet Continue reading »

The aftermath of Iran's election last week was startling. From the eyebrow-raising lopsided vote tally, to the surge of protesters into the streets, to the pivotal role of tools like Continue reading »

The Internet (or at least Twitter and MySpace) bade farewell to Trent Reznor and Stephanie Meyer respectively, if not respectfully, last week. Each of them blamed incessant harassment by trolls Continue reading »

This one's for everyone who ever announced they'd be waiting overnight outside a store for a new game's release, or couldn't sleep because they were so excited about the next Continue reading »

With the launch of MySears and MyKmart, it seems like the thing to do this week is to give your customers their very own social network. Can something like this Continue reading »

Oh, how I'd like to be Merlin Mann... master of the email demons, wizard of the inbox. (Also, brilliant and funny as hell.) He has a methodology for taming the Continue reading »

The day after you bought that Kindle 2 last week, Jeff Bezos was on a stage announcing a whole new Kindle: the DX, with a larger screen, support for PDFs Continue reading »

I'm not sure what's more surreal: hearing that "The WHO" has declared a level-five alert (which I believe means a tour with more than three dates on at least two Continue reading »

The worst virus on Twitter isn't Mikeyy or any of its variants. It's the virulent strain of viral nuttiness that possesses people to jump at any dodgy opportunity to Get Continue reading »