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Say it on the Huffington Post
In the ceaseless debate about whether information yearns to be "free" on the Internet, it seems to me that one important fact is overlooked.
Who cares about the silly little post office? Well, I'd like to suggest these mighty folks might want to start rolling up their sleeves and come out swinging.
I'm a reader, a consumer of books. I also write non-fiction and recently tried my first foray into fiction with a novel, Archangels: Rise of the Jesui...
Stafford and Easton are both pioneers in a world where everything seems already to be known. Both found their way into the inner recesses of nature, and both came away radically changed by the experience.
Making the U.S. a global clean energy leader will ensure a heck of a lot more jobs, and a clean, safe future.
For Amazon, the system began with good intentions as a marketing device for books, but unintended consequences have made it both an unreliable and suspect platform. Worse, it has tempted the unscrupulous.
Conscientious objectors to the Patent Wars, prepare to be outraged: In a just-released interview for PBS' Inventors YouTube series, the recipient of t...
HMV has squandered its place as the quality mass-market music retailer. This is a loss for all of us.
Browning Dragon, Heating Planet: China's exploding fossil fuel use threatens far more climate change, reports Lucia Green-Weiskel at the Nation. Coal ...
With "Wolf 06," John Sheldon offers a memorial tribute that he hopes will bring attention to senseless wolf killings.
When CES was founded, back in 1967, the idea of 'consumer electronics' was just a glimmer of what it is today. In 2003, COMDEX collapsed (the Comp...
CES, the world's largest consumer technology trade show, descends upon Las Vegas next week and Freshwire will be there. What should we expect? If rece...
It's that time of year when book people polish their crystal balls and make predictions for the year ahead. I bring you, my dear reader, my epic predictions for 2013.
"How much for an ad on Netflix?" Ever since the video streaming service proved that Americans have an insatiable appetite for premium TV shows and movies, it's a question that Netflix has heard from many inquiring media buyers.
This year, "eight days" has personal resonance. During the ordeal of hurricane Sandy six weeks ago, we lost power for eight days. It was inky black beyond the fire's glow. I finally understood, on a visceral level, why for millennia, people stared down darkness with celebrations of light.
I was at a shiva call eating a bagel with lox, schmoozing with friends and relatives of the deceased. I was positioned between the living and dining rooms of a split-level ranch, feet hurting from standing for so long, when my life as an unpublished author suddenly took a turn.
