The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence. I'm delighted to announce that our first winner...

You might know that Facebook, this afternoon, will have its second press conference surrounding its platform. Go to TechMeme if you want to know the news. I'm sure there...

A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals. All six products tested gave...

From the AP: Dozens of people were injured on Monday after an improvised bullfighting ring collapsed in the town of Planadas, in Colombia's Tolima province, authorities...

Citizens United is promoting a new film: "Hype: The Obama Effect." The movie, coming out in September, is described in a press release as "a full-length, feature...

Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook...

KABUL, Jul 24 (IPS) - Dozens of civilians were killed over the weekend in Afghanistan, the latest in the trend of spiralling violence that has engulfed the embattled...

Just a week and a half ago WordPress for the iPhone was announced with a pretty killer screencast detailing what you could do with it. Tuesday morning it finally showed...

(this is a restored post; comments lost) Jay Rosen has been worrying about curmudgeons. I’ve developed a different attitude. I try to just ignore them and if I...

Xcode 3.1 has an updated version of the "Open Quickly" dialog. The purpose of the dialog has always been to jump to a specific header file, but the UI has been changed to...

It's hard to read the headlines these days and not get the message, loud and clear, that human health is directly affected by the health of animals. Salmonella from...

FirePHP is an intriguing Firebug plug-in: it uses a server-side library to send debugging information in response headers, which are extracted and nicely displayed in the...

Real Deal podcast: Our favorite travel sites By Rafe Needleman, Webware (Jul 15) Tom Merritt and Rafe Needleman does travel in Episode 119 of The Real Deal - "The...

Back in June 2007 I reviewed the original Jawbone bluetooth headset and despite its drawbacks I found it to be the standard by which I judge all other BT headsets. Its...

I'm a big fan of wine and would love to say that I spend my free time jetting off to the various regions of Italy, Spain and France to taste the latest offerings from...

BBC NewsRig workers stranded off RussiaBBC News - 1 hour agoA vessel has set sail to collect dozens of offshore oil and gas workers, many thought to be Scots,...

As you might have heard, another attack occurred in Jerusalem today, with a resident of East Jerusalem using a tractor as a weapon of mass destruction.  The tragic...

When "The Great Global Warming Swindle" aired on British television last year, it was billed by its producers, Wag TV, as "the definitive response to Al Gore's 'An...

JRuby の 1.1.3 がリリースされました。82 個のバグ修正にくわえて主にパフォーマンスに関しての修正が入っているようです。 ...

One of the least appreciated benefits of articles is also one of the most obvious: articles send people, not just search engine spiders, to your site. So incoming links...