CES 2010: Beyond Fun and Games

Steve Ballmer, 01.06.2010

CEO, Microsoft

While there is a lot of fun and games at CES, that is not all that's taking place in our industry today. The next decade offers the promise of touching everyone on the planet in bold and new ways.

Savannah Book Festival: Escape From a Cold Virtual World

Georgianne Nienaber, 01.06.2010

Investigative journalist, searcher, and author

Has it occurred to you that social networking is really not very social at all? We Twitter, and cultivate relationships with hundreds of "friends" we have never met on Facebook.

Happiness in the Post-Shopping Economy

Don McNay, 01.04.2010

Award-winning financial columnist, author, commentator and personal finance guru.

My late mother used shopping as a hobby. If she were still alive, I wonder if she would be looking for something else to occupy her time. It seems many Americans are.

How Much Does Your Network Weigh?

Bradley W. Bloch, 01.04.2010

Social networks behind the news

Up in the Air reminds us that we should not merely keep track of our relationships but think about the qualities that define what it is that we are keeping track of.

Media 2020 Vision: Perspectives and Solutions for the New Decade

Jack Myers, 01.04.2010

Transformational Leadership for the Media Industry

The first decade of the 21st Century seems to have passed in a nano-second, yet this past year moved at a glacial pace as cracked corporate walls came...

Kill Your Web 2.0 Self -- Or Change It? (VIDEO)

Jose Antonio Vargas, 01.01.2010

Technology and Innovations editor, Huffington Post

We just left the decade of the "Me-on-Web" generation. We are now beginning the "We-on-Web" generation. And it's not about killing your Web 2.0 self but changing it -- less about "you" and more about "us."

The Earth's Decade

Glenn Hurowitz, 12.31.2009

Author of Fear and Courage in the Democratic Party, environmental advocate

This decade will be remembered and felt for its impact on Nature: the species that were saved and those that were lost; the heating of the planet; the forests cut down and those that continue to provide oxygen to our children's children.

Social Networking on Blogs

Penny C. Sansevieri, 12.31.2009

CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.

Before you even target a blog for your pitch, you should get to know them first. Here's how.

Nicholas Hoult of A Single Man: About a Boy Who's Become a Man -- With Oscar Prospects!

Michael Russnow, 12.31.2009

Screenwriter, former Member Writers Guild West Board of Directors

For most of us in America it's startling not only to see the physical change to manhood in Nicholas Hoult, but to remark how intriguing and comparable his roles are in About A Boy and A Single Man.

Sleep Loss in America: The Decade That Didn't Sleep and Why It's Complicated

Qanta Ahmed, MD, 12.31.2009

Board Certified Sleep Physician, International Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women"

We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.

I Resolve NOT to Make These 25 Resolutions

Lea Lane, 12.30.2009

Author, six books; editor, sololady.com

In 2010 I do NOT resolve to: 1...Stop reading the tabloids at the checkout counter. Forget it. I need to read something besides Huffpost. I've alrea...

The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same

Abe Gurko, 01.06.2010

As citizens, in case you're the Jasper Schuringa on your next flight, or as politicians, who need to cut the lip service and demand results.

Iran's Great Green Divide

Charlotte Safavi, 12.29.2009

Anglo-Iranian-American Journalist

After fishing in a rushing stream of Tweets, I watched YouTube clips showing a police station burning, a group of Basij militia cornered but not hurt, a police van overturned. Chants included, "Khamenei is a murderer. His reign is over."

Facebook Privacy Debate

J. Bradley Jansen, 12.28.2009

Director of the Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights

Like others, I'm sure, my friends are quarreling about Facebook changing its privacy policy. Unlike others, my friends are squabbling in a very public way.

Airline Terror Suspect Says He Follows bin Laden, But Just on Twitter

Andy Borowitz, 12.26.2009

BorowitzReport.com

According to interrogators, the Twitter link between the terror suspect and al-Qaeda does not prove that he was working on instructions from bin Laden himself.

'Tis the Season to be Green

Charlotte Safavi, 12.24.2009

Anglo-Iranian-American Journalist

Whether or not the green aspirations of regular Iranian citizens will be met, to me they have helped resurrect the identity of a nation, or at the very least, repaint it in a different hue.

Google's Real-time Search Surfaces Tweets, Blogs and Soon Facebook Updates

Andy Plesser, 12.23.2009

Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV

Google is now pulling content for real-time search from Twitter, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca and will be adding Facebook and MySpace updates in the coming weeks.

Under Stimulated: Building Trains and Other Stuff We Need Rather Than What Wall Street Dictates

Joel Epstein, 12.25.2009

Corporate and philanthropic giving and strategic communications professional

I'm making real investment in fast trains that run where people live and want to go my wish for the New Year.

Season's Tweetings for The Holidays?

Cassandra M. Bellantoni, 12.21.2009

Film-Video-Documentary Producer, Writer, Solar Company Owner, Chef & Teacher of mindfulness techniques.

Are you tweeting your good cheer this year? Putting up Facebook photos for those long distance relatives? Are you sending email Christmas cards to save paper, postage, time, the world? Yes, using today's technology to keep in touch is better than when we couldn't but contact doesn't always equal connection.

Facebook Etiquette for Authors

Ru Freeman, 12.21.2009

Author, A Disobedient Girl

I realized that we were all descending, en masse, into a vast swamp of self-promotion that is just not becoming of the writerly class. So I have come up with ten-step pathway to grace for writers.

What Does It Mean When British Pop Fans Rage Against the Machine?

Mark Blankenship, 12.23.2009

Pop Culture Critic

Like anyone, I enjoy a lot of the pop music dispensed from Simon Cowell's empire, but it's just exciting to see this netroots campaign unseat the winner of Britain's American Idol-like X-Factor with a 15 year-old song about revolution.