Question of the Day: Battle of the Brews
McDonald’s has decided to pick a fight with Starbucks. In addition to offering espresso drinks to their billions of customers served,...
Read MoreIs creativity the key to economic success in a connected society?
With the economy sputtering and job losses mounting, there is a lot of discussion right now about what kinds of jobs, and more importantly...
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Just in time for tonight’s debate: The Live Remix
We’ve heard enough. That’s why we want – and get – something different from tonight’s final presidential...
Read MoreWill printing drive new business to Scrapblog?
One of the loveliest social media startups I’ve run across in the last few years is Scrapblog. I say lovely because it’s well...
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Creative? Or crossing the line?
PC pulls an advertisement in the guise of an editorial, called “Stop Switching to Mac”, from the sacrosanct news wall on...
Read MorePlaying with Spore and messin’ with our gene pool
Play is to our time what work was to the Industrial Society: our dominant way of knowing, doing and creating value. Now Spore has arrived...
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The seven senses of the world’s best-designed newspapers
The Society of News Design has announced the World’s Best Designed Newspapers, an award I conceived as chair of SND’s design...
Read MoreInside the Eastern Media Elite
You’ve got to know the secret handshake to fully appreciate this gem from www.washingtonpost.com...
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Charles Blow blogs by the numbers
Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A visual Op-Ed...
Read MoreRight-brainers rule. Dr. Design emerges from exile at SND.
As news industry conferences go, this is the good one. The right-brainers who attend SND’s annual designfest have managed to make...
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W8 a minute, then LOL: Texting is good for you
Just when you or your favorite school teacher thought there was no way in hell the English language could survive the abomination of text...
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Adrian Holovaty: Changing the news one block at a time
Adrian Holovaty is the news industry’s favorite techie, even as he develops a kind of news that is changing the newspaper...
Read MoreTwist and shout: Tech’s terrible tyrants
And you thought editors are jerks. ValleyWag celebrates the ten terrible tyrants of technology. Somehow Oracle’s Larry Ellison was...
Read More12 weeks, 9 companies, 7 lessons from an incubator fund
One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in...
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