Rob Fishman

Three years ago, HuffPost embarked on a bold journey of shortened links, direct messages, and the pursuit of brevity.

Our first recorded article about Twitter came from blogger Kirstin Gorski, on January 21, 2008. Twitter, Gorski wrote, was "a free 'microblogging' service that lets anyone share online what...

These days, even the most diligent newsreader can have trouble keeping up. Between newspapers, blogs, apps, RSS, Twitter and Facebook, the options can seem endless. And yet, frustratingly, it's the story we most care about that so often slips through the cracks.

That's why HuffPost is now allowing readers to...

When Rupert Murdoch emerged from behind the curtain this morning in the Guggenheim's basement, he touted his iPad in a most uncomfortable position.

Not brandished above his head, as we imagine Moses delivering his tablet, but tucked oddly between forearm and torso, like an illicit magazine flashed from the pocket....

Outside the HuffPost offices, snow is falling once again. Far from the disruptive fury of last week's Snowpocalypse, this is a gentle sprinkling.

The kind of wintry, contemplative weather, that brings a tune to mind.

"Inexplicably," wrote @Jackorama on Twitter, "I got this song stuck in...

In 2009, we announced HuffPost Social News — "a collaboration with Facebook that connects HuffPost users to their Facebook friends, the news they are reading, and the stories they are commenting on," as Arianna wrote then.

The past year has seen that vision realized — and...

Checking-in just became visual.

Foursquare, the location-based social network, announced today the addition of photos and comments to its mobile experience. The features will go live for iPhone users today, for Android users later this week, and for BlackBerry devices in January, said Alex Rainert, Foursquare's...

UPDATE: On Monday, John H. Coatsworth, the SIPA Dean, reversed the university's earlier position, affirming that students "have a right to discuss and debate any information in the public arena...without fear of adverse consequences." Wired obtained the email:

Freedom of information and expression is a core value of...

While Patti Smith was accepting her National Book Award on Wednesday night, young people interested in books, writing and publishing gathered at the Random House headquarters in New York for an inaugural "House Party."

Thrown in conjunction with the National Book Awards, the Association of American...

Over the weekend, Wikipedia kicked off its 2010 fundraising drive with a personal appeal from founder Jimmy Wales. Actually, with two appeals.

Taking a page from statisticians, Wales employed what's commonly known as A/B testing -- a "classic direct mail tactic," according to Wikipedia.

A run-of-the-mill...

After the terminal diagnoses of last year, journalism has been seemingly reprieved. Which is not to say that reports of the old models' demise were exaggerated greatly or otherwise. To the contrary, "the news about the news ad business is still negative," as Ken Doctor wrote last week....

In "Never Let Me Go"—an adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed 2005 novel that opens tomorrow in theaters—teenage clones scour a bleak English countryside for the humans who might have spawned them, called 'possibles.' Never finding them, the "poor creatures," as they're later called, will donate their vital organs to a...

So long Billionaire Boys Club, say goodbye to the "Most Exclusive Club in the World." There's a new, more exclusive stratosphere to puncture: Twitter's most-followed users. We've collected the 140 most popular characters, bloggers, celebrities, athletes, actors and politicians -- based on number of followers --...

The New York Forum — billed as a new, more focused Davos by the man who for 13 years produced it — opened last night at the Grand Hyatt with a panel discussion led by CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, and featuring Rupert Murdoch.

The plenary session, which also included...

Last night was Lost's. Not only for devotees — who dominated Twitter's trending topics — but among apostates and abstainers, too, Sunday evening conversation was rife with tweets like, "really jealous of everyone doing LOST final parties... i've never even seen one episode. i wanna be...

It was hardly the weather for a suicide. Students had gathered at Collegetown Bagels -- a popular watering hole on days like October 8, 2008, when the Ithaca sun makes an unseasonable appearance -- and from the outdoor patio, you could make out the lofty spire of McGraw Tower, poised...

Goldman Sachs is a meritocracy.

Then they admit it, the booming-but-beleaguered bankers, whose website says it loud and clear. And why not? Everyone in America knows what a meritocracy is. Rule by the worthy, not the rich, regal or related. As at Goldman Sachs, where your "opportunity...

Last night, the New York Public Library held its annual Library Lions dinner, followed by the Young Lions benefit party.

This year, in a break from tradition, the Library honored three of its own librarians alongside Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, illustrator Hilary Knight and Annie Proulx, author of "Brokeback Mountain."...

Before he ever took off, Falcon Heene was grounded. Now that the boy is (still) safe at home, what are the parents to do? They've already said a go-upstairs-to-your-room grounding is out of the question. So why not indulge in some old-fashioned fun, some mainstream parenting, and take the...

In The Life of David Gale, a 2003 film starring Kevin Spacey, an innocent man is put to death.

In real life, David Grann, a writer for the New Yorker, reported last month that an innocent man was put to death. While there are marked differences between the fictional...

We've got a problem on our hands. Or, as it were, between her legs: she, the lissome beauty whose lovemaking appears, at the moment, wholly unrequited. Dispensing with the dulcet moans, the brunette demands of her slumbering lover (as if he needed the introduction)...

"Hank?" ... "Hank!" Moody, that is....