If you value your spare time, don't start posting comments and reviews on Amazon, Mark Espinosa suggests. It can be a hard habit to break. ...
Giles Slade | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
The Kindle is for the book-lover who might buy a first, a signed or a special edition. It is lingerie. It is a box of chocolates or a bottle of double-malt. Competition will drive it to adapt, and it will.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.30.2009 | Media
Comcast has teamed up with Clearwire to offer one of the first 4G wireless data networks. Comcast High-Speed 2go will go live today in Portland and ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has approved a controversial bill allowing Amazon farmers to acquire an area of public land larger than ...
The Guardian | David Adam, Environment Correspondent | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive dest...
Norman Solomon | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
Johann Hari | Posted 06.23.2009 | World
Will we allow a small number of rich people to make a short-term profit from seizing and burning resources, at the expense of our collective ability to survive?
Jonathan Black | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media
Surely we were meant to spend more time reading books than creating lists and harvesting opinions.
Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
By Marcela Valente | Inter Press Service BUENOS AIRES, Jun 19 (IPS) - Fed up of waiting for existing parties to take up the cause of sustainable de...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media
Google is set to introduce a micro-blog search engine. The company reported on its blog that the users will soon be able to search Twitter and other...
John Gibler | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
The initial media response to the violence obscured the order and nature of events and thus the responsibility for violence, converting a bloody police raid into generic "clashes."
Independent | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
The leader of Peru's Amazon Indians will be flown to exile in Nicaragua after seeking asylum following violent demonstrations that killed scores of po...
Amy Goodman | Posted 06.09.2009 | World
Ken Saro-Wiwa's family and others just won a landmark settlement in U.S. federal court, ending a 13-year battle with Shell Oil. Alberto Pizango's ordeal is just beginning.
AP | FRANKLIN BRICENO | Posted 06.09.2009 | Green
BAGUA, Peru — President Alan Garcia accused Amazon Indians of "barbarity" Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sen...
Jill Keto | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
Most people never think of themselves as a brand, but you have one whether or not you realize it. Your reputation is part of your brand, and your resume and business card are marketing tools.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment
This year's BookExpo in New York City had its usual small arena of publishers at gussied-up kiosks hawking the latest and greatest by writers known and unknown.
Levi Novey | Posted 06.02.2009 | Green
Since the Amazon Rainforest is so important, we must ask ourselves: "Why have we (or at least the media) become so bored of discussing the Amazon and deforestation?"
Shelly Palmer | Posted 06.02.2009 | Media
TV Week's will cease to exist as a print publication after this week. With ad revenue down, among other things, Crain's will continue TV Week as a ...
Daniel Kessler | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green
When it comes to global climate change, all of our choices matter, right down to what we put on our feet. A three-year undercover investigation by Gre...
Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business
Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.
Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media
Google experienced a bevy of screw-ups yesterday. Users were complaining all over Twitter that the search giant's GMail service, as well as Google N...
Publishers Weekly | Rachel Deahl | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business
In its most significant foray into publishing, Amazon has acquired world English rights to a self-published novel by a midwestern teenager called Lega...
Michael Brune | Posted 05.08.2009 | Green
For nearly 16 years, Chevron has been fighting a landmark oil pollution lawsuit brought by more than 30,000 residents from rainforest communities in Ecuador.
InformationWeek | Posted 05.07.2009 | Media
The biggest challenge for textbook publishers joining several universities in testing the usefulness of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN)'s new Kindle DX will be in...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
Yesterday evening, Greg Sargent reported on The Plum Line that one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's key reasons...
I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
Don't write off Saint Sarah all you political pundits,...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The former fiance of Gov. Sarah Palin's...
Hermione herself, Emma Watson, charmed David Letterman and...
Think Progress flags David Brooks telling...
While we of course do not claim to know anyone's thoughts, we nominate these...
The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
For this week's installment of their "Lunch with the FT" feature the...
Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
SYDNEY — Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets...
"What's for dinner?" A lot of us ask that question right...
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Washington Post | Mike Musgrove | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media