And the envelope, please: How many people does it take to run an online-only metro news site? The answer appears to be 22, a number some occultists are said to believe holds psychic powers. Hearst, psychic, who'd a thunk it? That's the number I've heard from outsiders and that's the approximation we...

Filed under: Comic Relief This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. Helium strikes again. The funniest of all gasses broke the heart of Londoner and jokester Lefkos Hajji, who had concealed a $12,000 engagement ring in a balloon full of the stuff. His plan? To hand his i...

aerospace, deals, Prototypes Gregory T. Huang wrote: OK, so this isn’t technically a Seattle story. But how can we resist a bizarre new flying machine being built by Boeing to travel to the farthest reaches of the Earth? This week, Boeing announced it is teaming up with Calgary, Alberta-based ...

[image: sxc] Round 1 was a blast and we have a lot of great stuff to give away for kids now! With summer break looming we need all the help we can get keeping the kids entertained and safe at the same time. Below you’ll find some fantastic products to help us out! To Enter: To enter, simply le...

Back when I suggested there be a day each year where we all delete our unused web app accounts, I never imagined that some companies would be so difficult about it. In fact, those in the web app industry should start monitoring this type of thing. There has been much made of how some web apps are ma...

Consider it user-gen 2.1. It's easy to see Helium, whose Marketplace product comes out of within the next week or two, as a website organizing the loose and large gaggle of freelance writers out there. It's attempting to do that, and that in and of itself is interesting. Even more curious though is ...

Making money writing is not even remotely a new concept, as poets and storytellers have flooded the world with written works since the first use of the written word, preceded by the spoken word and used essentially to convey new information, or store knowledge for later perusal. Since the coming of ...

From time to time, I plan to post links here to things I have written on sites that earn me a little bit of dough, a little bit at a time. One such place is Helium . You write, they pay. Sound good? Hold up and listen to me for a second. Look at the title of this entry. Look at the 'passive income' ...