Barack Obama has promised to tear down the stone wall and dense bushes with which the current administration has barricaded the White House. Good. Democracy without transparency is at best an assumed democracy.

And, Obama has promised to take advantage of our new connective technology -- the Internets and all...

Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist for the Boston Globe, is angry at Obama and at those who cheered his speech. We (I not only cheered, I wept) are guilty of accepting a double standard because, says Jacoby, if our clergyman had said the hateful things that Wright did, we...

With its new advertising infrastructure, Facebook is being careful to protect privacy of information. But they are bucking — and perhaps helping to transform — the norms of privacy. At its most basic, Facebook is getting the defaults wrong.

The new ad infrastructure enables Facebook to extend their...

Andrew Keen's book, The Cult of the Amateur, is a media heat-seeking missile. How could they not feature an author -- a former dot-com guy no less -- who says that the Internet is killing our culture, as his subtitle puts it? Even better, the culture the Internet is...

In case you missed it, here's the narrative of last night's YouTube/CNN debate. Ordinary folks got to post grainy videos that beforehand were hyped as posing the sort of questions journalists never ask. Instead, the questions were either the same-old- same-old or were quirky, eccentric and marginal. It was...

[NO SPOILERS AHEAD: I haven't seen or read anything about what's going to happen in the final season, which starts on Sunday. There are spoilers about the previous seasons, though.]

The Sopranos, certainly one of the greatest series on TV ever, has always been a comedy. I don't just mean...

It is hard to read Saving Graces and not fall in love with Elizabeth Edwards.

In it, Edwards tells how in the deeply dark times in her life, including the death of a son and a battle with breast cancer, she found "solace and strength from friends and strangers," as...