When we think about the year past and the year ahead, often the crystal ball can be a bit blurry. But not this year. There are so many forces now clearly at work that predictions for 2010 seem clearer than at any time in the past 10 years.

So, that...

It's easy to look at Comcast from the outside and see a big cable company. From that perspective, cable guys -- who were always called by broadcasters "pole climbers," not in a nice way -- could be seen as the dumb money in the NBC/Comcast deal.

But a closer look...

The White House Gate Crashers - The Unnamed Co-conspirators

I've been reading and re-reading the story of the "crashers"  and all of the related stories about Reality TV.

Something just isn't right.

While the couple is described as auditioning for a Bravo TV series, and Bravo goes...

  Every now and then, if you're very fortunate, you get to witness the "changing of the guard." The shift from one way of doing things to another. From old to new.

For the past three days I watched as old media handed over the reins to new --...

You may have noticed that lots of the folks that make media for a living are pretty unhappy these days.

If you listen to Craig Newmark, the king of digital classifieds and the namesake of the now ubiquitous Craigslist – the newspaper folks he’s talked to don’t blame him...

There's a new phrase around town -- "Augmented Reality."

For a period of time, Virtual Reality (VR) was the hot new thing. Folks could create avatars, pretend to be other people, and buy and sell 'virtual' goods. You know, fake stuff.

But alas, for most of us, there...

The media reports of the plot being hatched by Najibullah Zazi offer tantalizing glimpses into his life,  his movements,  and his motivations.   

And while the proximity of his arrest to 9/11 makes it hard to engage the story as anything other than another terrorist plot, the story that...

So, Saturday was an average day. A plain ordinary morning. I went to the door, and it wasn't there. The Times was missing.

My first thought: a neighbor had taken it. That used to happen when the guy who walked naked in front of his apartment...

For the past eight years, the most important story regarding 9/11 has been locked away, hidden, out of sight.  Today is the time to open that drawer and take that story out and share it with the world.  That most important story is your story.

I am going...

If you want to know if an airline is in bad shape, listen to the flight attendants when they're on break over by the bathroom/kitchen area near the back of the plane.  Better yet, look in the eyes of the counter staff. They know just how bad things are.

Three random news stories in the past week connected for me in a moment of clarity - and with a bit of trepidation.

First, the terrible helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft crash that killed nine over the Hudson.

Then, a seemingly unrelated taxicab accident that took the life of a small...

Kids like Roller-coasters -- they're biologically wired for the moment where your stomach hangs in the air. Between the gruesome clickity click up the hill, and the 'ugh' as you head down -- well, you probably remember.

Most adults get to a place where they try and avoid the high...

First, let me just say that I was one of those folks who counted the number of vacation days that George Bush took. It made me crazy that he was playing golf as we were going to war. So I've been pleased to see Barack Obama pushing hard to get...

So, today is my birthday :) Thank you, always fun to have a day celebrate all things me one day a year. But this year for the first time -- I'm having a Digital Birthday.

Now I've had some unusual birthdays before this one. In fact, my 6th birthday...

If you've ever volunteered in a soup kitchen, or spent a Sunday helping a community group get a local baseball field ready for the season, then you know how good it feels to lend a hand.

The problem, as it turns out, is that finding the places that need you...