There's an episode of 30 Rock in which Jack Donaghy takes a job with Homeland Security and gives a stirring speech to Congress so that his office can get pens. Finally, a large box of pens arrives--but it's filled with only the caps. ...READ»
Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Anil Dash works as VP of ...READ»
Mediabistro Circus’s session about blogging featured Eric Hellweg, Editorial director for harvardbusiness.org; Noah Shachtman, Contributing editor for the Danger Room Blog (on Wired.com); Anil Dash, Vice President of Six Apart; ...READ»
In art class we were asked to draw a familiar object. I picked something simple. A tire. No one could recognize it. And yet, after reading The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures I was able to ...READ»
After a 13-month siesta, iFive has returned--so imagine just how much innovation has been going on during this mother of all power naps.1. Today we're all waiting, breath a-bated, for Facebook's changes to its privacy settings, which ...READ»
"Interferometric modulation," driving your Mercedes with an iPhone, driving your computer with your mind, Minute Maid's juicy new packaging, locavore Thanksgiving, a next-gen activity monitor to help you burn it off, and other great stories on Fast Company this week.READ»
Social nets may be bees knees of Internet tech at the moment, but that doesn't mean it's all straightforward and fluffy: New research is suggesting that if you're friends with over 150 people on Facebook, the extras are ...READ»
Next week, on May 20th and 21st, Mediabistro.com will hold its first conference – Mediabistro Circus.
"Most conferences are dry and boring. That's why we're calling ours a circus," says mediabistro.com founder ...READ»
“A year ago millions of people were rejoicing over the defeat of Bush’s hated Republicans and were looking for Obama to follow through on his promises of change,” writes SocialistAlternative.org. “Fast forward to today, and...READ»
Last night in New York, at a TV launch party for Popular Science's "Future Of..." Debbie Myers, Science Channel general manager asked what was missing from science programming.
The overall response, from the 50-plus room full of ...READ»
Over the weekend, following my coverage of the Supernova conference, Cory Doctorow, a contributor to Boing Boing, picked up on Fast Company's Web linking policy. Egged on by a reader, he criticized our out-of-date linking policy, ...READ»
