If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, resources, search engines and ‘time-saving’ tools out there, why not be?  Since I have been politely asked by the folks at AltSearchEngines to give a list of favoured search engines, I am happy to do...

To say that the institutional investment community has hit a “rough patch� over the past six months is probably the understatement of the new millennium.  If you combine the current bleak economic outlook with rising fund withdrawals and pressure to reduce research costs (including headcount) w...

Sherry Coben is 2009's leading contributor to Movie Smackdown ! Read all her reviews here . You certainly don’t need my personal predictions and picks. They’re not much different from all the others you can read elsewhere, although I should confess to a creepily savant accuracy, especi...

Lauren Kessler is an author, narrative journalist and director of the literary nonfiction graduate program at the University of Oregon.  “My name is Lauren Kessler, and I am a  blogger .â€� “Hello, Lauren.â€�  Had anyone told me a year ago that I’d be blogging, I would have c...

Note: Mrs. Parker is not for children. -editor. In 1919, her career took off while writing theatre criticism for Vanity Fair, which she began as a stand-in for P. G. Wodehouse. At the magazine she met Robert Benchley, who became a close friend, and Robert E. Sherwood. The trio began lunching at the ...

In the not-so-distant future, students will be able to graduate from high school without ever touching a book. Twenty years ago, they could graduate from high school without ever using a computer. In only a few decades, computer technology and the Internet have transformed the core principles of in...

Prediction: Artificial personas & synthesized friends By Olivar Kamprojo The future of artificial personas is almost here. Or at least the first phase of it. Synthesized voices are starting to be really human-like artificial-personas. Click the headphones icon to listen this clip.  (Please try ...

*We welcome Richard Tyrie as our first Guest Author for quite a while for this post* Councils told not to use websites to compete with local media Secretary for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, has told councils not to undermine local media outlets by trying to compete for readers and adver...

Google, which has turned the simplest interface into a monster business, continues to boost its leadership in generic search. But big companies in lucrative markets can be vulnerable. A recent post on this site pointed out that 20 percent of Google users are overwhelmed by the sheer number of search...

By guest author Richard Laermer You’re doomed and so am I.  We are all reeling. The money just is not coming in like it used to. Damn.   These are the times when you got to stop whining and do something. And I’m sorry to say you are going to have to change habits—that’s the goo...