90+ photo tools 10 Free Minimalist Word Processors for Greater Productivity And, lest we forget, updated Google Apps features Tags: free web apps free software

What, you say. Well, hang with me here. I spaced this post from Mindy McAdams on young people last week, but Melissa Worden drew me back to it with her “good reads” list.

Sometimes the react is better than the first act. Mathew Ingram and Steve Yelvington have good posts on British newspaper consultant John Duncan Webster’s Dictionary of Audience Exaggeration: How internet metrics promote the myth of the dying newspaper. Yelvington has...

More on John Battelle’s journey to the North Mississippi hill country. (An earlier post is here.) Battelle is a Silicon Valley icon who was a founder of Wired magazine, a founder of The Industry Standard, wrote the book on Google....

UFO Sighting in Tennessee by 80,000! Possible Abductions … With Photo! Not as out there as recent reality. Tags: Bonnaroo Flaming Lips UFO

Somebody put online video on fast forward. From a new survey: Daily vidoe usage up 56 percent over last year 14 percent of American 12 to 64 watch online video daily. 80 percent of 18 to 24s watch video at...

Leonard Pitts Jr. writes a column for the Miami Herald that is syndicated nationally. He won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004 and is the author of “Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.” On June 3,...

This is just funnier than Jon Stewart, but at least it means my kids are on top of the news. The people most knowledgeable about news events, according to a new Pew study, are:

Rex Hammock notes that AT&T;, the telephone company formerly known as BellSouth in these parts, is offering an unadvertised $10 DSL rate as part of a government settlement. AN AP story from late yesterday says:

Ronco, of Veg-O-Matic and the Pocket Fisherman fame, has filed for bankruptcy. Company founder Ron Popell, who sold the company two years ago, also brought modern civilization devices that scrambled eggs inside the shell, a food dehydrator, a pasta-maker and...