After a recent DMCA struggle between the left-leaning news site, the Drudge Report and the Associated Press about using AP links to reference stories, Buzz Machine Jeff Jarvis wonders if this could be a final rally for a once-great, sinking news network. The focus, he asserts, should now be on crediting the local sources of […]

Tech geeks have been soiling themselves since Monday in excitement over Apple reducing the cost of the too-nice-for-a-pocket iPhone to $200 from $400 and adding enhanced networking features. What people don’t know is that the plans associated with it actually make the iPhone 3G approximately $160 more expensive over the life of a two-year plan. […]

A neutral broadband network is one that is free of restrictions on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, on the modes of communication allowed, which does not restrict content, sites or platforms, and where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.
There is a growing fear among the tech-savvy that telecommunications companies […]

New York’s first-term Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer this afternoon publicly apologized for the “involvement” in prostitution he admitted this morning. Police released to the New York Times evidence that Spitzer was the client of a high-end prostitution ring called Emperor’s Club.
Much of the televised media is reporting it as, “Spitzer admits involvement in prostitution to […]

I honestly couldn’t believe my ears when presidential hopeful Sen. Hilary Clinton, D-NY actually started using the press as part of her campaign tactics - and not even the way most politicians do.
Politicos can dish it, spin it, and repackage it and journalists will do whatever they can to extract the delicate truth from whatever […]

An article in the Observer of England that was published a few years back has been stirring people up after hitting the top of Digg recently. In 2004 the Observer managed to obtain a “suppressed” Pentagon report claiming that by 2020 we will live on shrunken continents with crumbling social infrastructures. And all because we […]

Larry Wilmore and John Oliver team up to record an unforgettable moment in Black History — a Republican presidential forum.

This video shows an easy way to extend your gas mileage though I haven’t tried this myself yet.

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How frustrating it is, living in a world where most of those with any semblance of computer literacy are not of a ripe enough age to bail the world of publishing out of its age gap-induced bewilderment. Publishers seem to suffer from a cyber confusion that pales in insignificance only next to the general hubris […]

President George H. W. Bush last Thursday gathered an African shaman troupe in Washington to raise awareness for malaria, which runs rampant through Africa. It has been documented that thousands could be saved from the disease by obtaining a $4 mosquito net to sleep under.
Mr. Bush seemed to believe doing a little dance would raise […]