Two of my favourite sites at the moment are the great Speechification, which is a personal archive of the best of English language speech radio, drawing predominantly...

Photograph by Kevin Van Aelst I am stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter:...

Ars Technica reports on a recent study which shows that instant messaging may not be ruining students' writing abilities after all as many might believe. For instance, ...

A new book by David Kesmodel of the "Wall Street Journal" will delve into the business of domain investment (no I've not read it yet but it's going to be on on my "must...

Long time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of...

Through a series of misunderstandings and bad calls on my part, this blog went moribund in mid-2005. Through a much longer series of head-scratchings and technical...

kmlwiki.dekmlwiki.de is a German language wiki collection of interesting 3D views for the Google Earth browser plug-in on Google Maps.The site has a large collection of...

Now that I have fallen under the spell of Google Reader, I've been spending some time organizing my news feeds and other reading.  As a part of that process, I have...

The 140-character limit in Twitter has brought out a lot of ingenuity in people. Some creative ways in which people are working within Twitter's character limit include...

David Crystal is one of the most prolific writers on the English language. Despite his amazing productivity, the quality of his work never suffers. Here are a few of his...

Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine is a quarterly publication distributed in English language in USA and devoted to issues like: Action Script Development,...

Last Friday I was delighted to be a return guest on the Wisconsin Public Radio Show "At Issue with Ben Merens" (audio available here). Our ostensible topic was...

If you decide to sell your company to Google, keep this in mind: you will be forced to give up the English language and will only be able to speak Klingon. I kid, I...

If you listened to the first part of my two-installment podcast featuring Howard Behar, you heard Behar talk about the power of authenticity and the importance of making...

As you could imagine, Google has a lot of historical data about keywords and the traffic they generate. Harnessing this data can give you a helpful starting point when...

Congratulations to Chris, Megan, Kimberly, and Chuck, who correctly answered yesterday's trivia question.  George Carlin, who we lost this past Sunday, was the first...