I loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North Continue reading »

Earlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December. Now that Continue reading »

There's a panicky voice inside me that wonders, whenever the power is knocked out for more than a minute or so, if this is it: the failure of the grid, Continue reading »

Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of Continue reading »

Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of Continue reading »

Editor: For those of you wondering why you haven't seen a Twitter post on ReadWriteWeb for, oh, a couple of days now -- here is one! And you'll be pleased Continue reading »