The Economist: (behind a paywall – and, whoa, they updated their site to a new design as I was writing this)
This is what Bill Gross has recently started offering at SNAP, a search engine that he foun…
From Dragon Dog Press’ Glossary of Writing Terms
Slushpile – What the editors call the overwhelming amount of unagented and unsolicited material they receive. Most no longer look for gems among the sl…
Strunk and White elementary rule no. 17:
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should ha…
SAS Surprice, is that as in surcharge, the SAS surcharge? Or is this just someone ignoring the first rule of jokes: It doesn’t work if you have to explain it.
With the motto “every citizen is a reporter,” 5-year-old OhmyNews has engaged its audience in ways that U.S. print and television news outlets, faced with a steep decline in readers and viewer…
Here is what Bill Robinson has to say in The Register:
During this period and before, it was clear Zennstrom was desperate t…
Here are two little things I would love to see in Skype, in case Ebay still have a buck or two left over to fund future development:
For some reason, I thought it was a hosted app. It looked so, you know, web 2.0, that I thought I’d jus…
