I know my occasional soccer posts are mostly ridiculous, but having just watched the U.S. beat Brazil 2-1 in an unhingingly thrilling and nerve-wracking U-20 (it obviously stands for “under 20,” but some of the players are already 20) World Cup game before a packed house of Ottawans, I have a couple of things to [...]
Last Friday, as part of the reporting for my column about Facebook, I chatted with Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, co-founders of Ning. (Andreessen might also have been involved with some thing called Netscape that I seem to remember people talking about a lot in the mid-1990s.) Ning, which enables people to set up customized [...]
At least, that’s what The Business, a reasonably respectable British weekly in the same media family as the Telegraph, is reporting (link via Drudge). Given that the editor of The Business and co-author of the article is Andrew Neil, who was editor of Murdoch’s Sunday Times for 11 years and appears to have stayed on [...]
Ana Marie Cox has informed me that several Democratic candidates for president have been participating in a United Steelworkers forum at the Crown Plaza Cleveland City Centre yesterday and today focused on trade and manufacturing. This is news to me on so many fronts (There’s a presidential election coming up? There are Democrats participating in [...]
My new column is about Facebook, and it’s in the issue of Time with a glass of Scotch (or is it bourbon? or rye? or colored water?) on the cover and online here. It begins: I knew something significant was up when, a couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail notifying me that a [...]
