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"Let’s get this straight up front: I am now writing a blog post, not blogging a blog," writes Forrest Wickman at Slate, the good people who brought you the great two-spaces-after-a-period debate. Oh yes. Oh yes. They are at it again, this time with a post in which he takes on the matter of what to call this thing we do.
The company's explosive potential begins to rear its head
And it receives $200 million in new funding
WaPo's Steven Pearlstein urges regulators turn the screws on the search giant
A Facebook intern plots a world map using friendship data
Not as frivolous as one might think...
Not everyone thinks this is much of a step forward
Pro-WikiLeaks activists bring down websites from PayPal to Palin
It only feels like everyone's tweeting
She claims she was attacked by WikiLeaks-supporting hackers. Bloggers are skeptical
Casting doubt on a purported scientific breakthrough
What hackers are doing to make WikiLeaks's opponents miserable
Say hello to the Google eBookstore--unless you have a Kindle
The startup's 30-year-old founder boldly walks away, and analysts are still sputtering
A 'kinder, gentler' Facebook CEO?
The design overhaul brings photos and personal stats to the forefront
The search giant wants your computer to speak to you (and vice versa)
Note to up-and-coming indie bands: do not name your debut album "Torrent"
The FTC thinks so. Here are the pros and cons.
Genachowski unveils his new watered-down plan
Would you pay $6 billion for a digital coupon company?
And can they really compete with the Amazon juggernaut?
The EU launches an investigation. Should the search giant be worried?
Makes info-sharing harder, but DoD doesn't have a great track record on cyber security
Fallout from the new Wikileaks dump
Reactions to Tim Berners-Lee's thesis
It's not looking good for summer reading
New documentary aims to be counterpoint to An Inconvenient Truth
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