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Since we both started working from home, my wife and I developed a habit of watching movies on TV or DVD during evenings when we didn’t have much workload. Lately, every Thursday evening, we enjoy catching the latest episode of Harper’s Island, which is a grisly suspense series not for the squeamish. The premise is [...]

The hot news recently about Twitter is how “uncomfortable” it is becoming with third parties using the word “tweet” in their user interfaces. TechCrunch cites a snippet of a email conversation between Twitter and a third-party developer, and how Twitter is trying to protect its intellectual property. Twitter, Inc is uncomfortable with the use of [...]

New media has changed the way we consume and spread information. Social media mavens might want you to believe that blogs, tweets and social networks are all it takes to spread news. And fast. That sort of takes traditional media out of the picture. It’s dying after all, right? Or is it? I learned of [...]

The New York Times has run a story on David Rohde, a journalist who was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. From November of 2008 to June this year, the NY Times had scrambled to keep information of his kidnapping from being publicized, for fear that the kidnappers would use this to their advantage, and [...]