Screw blogging! It’s about time I made a play for some of those sweet, sweet BuzzFeed/HuffPo pageviews

The financial health of a company can be inferred from the quality, variety and cost to the employee of the snacks and beverages it offers its employees

WordPress suffers from a problem that many software products do: it expects its users to be someone they are not

A culture focused on a particular set of essential principles, Boyd believed, would give an edge when confronting an organization that did not

With the administration of George W. Bush still fresh in our collective memories, it’s easy to think that the problem with our system is the way it periodically throws stupid people into positions of power. But intelligence, in and of itself, is no guarantee of wisdom

In terms of designing a medium for discussion, Twitter’s product design decisions have been disastrous

The style of reporting usually called “access journalism” is neither: neither access, nor journalism

Voters, it turns out, aren’t stupid. When things happen, they remember.

It’s the new version of Windows that doesn’t have any windows!

Bill Nye (“The Science Guy”) tries to explain to creationists why they shouldn’t pass this belief along to their kids. I would use this video as an example of how scientists and advocates for science should not communicate with the public

Want to learn the ropes of Paradox’s excellent dynasty simulator? Let’s get started

I saw something today that brought back all the frustration I felt watching progressive leaders cede the field to Tea Party wingnuts back in 2009 and 2010. Let’s look at an example of how not to do advocacy communications

If you’re in the audience at a conference session, do a favor for both yourself and whoever’s presenting to you and put away your damn gadgets

The question of what the dividing line is between ethical and unethical aggregation seems complicated to media’s worthies; but to me, it seems really, really simple

WASHINGTON — In a move hailed by gay rights and liberal activists as “unprecedented” and “historic,” President Barack Obama announced today that he personally believes that same-sex couples should be able to marry, but not enough to actually do anything about it.

If you want to sell me something to a nerd, don’t try to convince me that it’s perfect. Try to convince me that it’s imperfect, just in ways that I can live with

A terrorist nuke exploded in Washington would be a tragedy beyond anything in living memory — but it wouldn’t be the end of the city. And survival is possible

It’s not whether we should take out Iran’s nuclear facilities from the air. It’s whether or not we even can

I know the kind of cellphone I want to buy; the problem is that nobody makes it

The real reason why tech was nearly sandbagged by SOPA: not because tech is getting outspent by the deep pockets of Big Content, but because tech spends its lobbying money in dumb ways

Brisbane sets up a choice between “reporting” and “opinion,” which is a standard way journalists divide up the world, and then asks us which one we prefer. But I believe this is a false dichotomy, because it leaves out a critical third element: context

If you’re one of those people who cherish the “traditional” Linux desktop experience, you need to realize that Ubuntu’s goal is not to serve you. You are, quite literally, the one percent

For Congress, institutional cowardice has become the norm

With Kindle, Amazon has set things up so that in order to get the good things electronic books can offer, you have to accept a whole bunch of bad things too. Things that don’t benefit you at all — and that in some cases actually take away rights that owners of physical books have enjoyed for hundreds of years — but that benefit Amazon a whole bunch.

“How can Facebook track what I’m doing when I’m not on their site?” The answer is that they have enlisted an army of accomplices — including me. I gave them material assistance in making it happen. I did that by embedding Facebook’s Like Button on my site.