Culture and Society

Publishers are sounding more like spoiled children when someone picks up a toy they weren’t playing with than people who care about books.

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

The Quill Literary Foundation has created the first literary awards whose results will be decided by the book buying public.

Monday, Yahoo! announced that it has over 20 billion indexed web pages and web files in its search engine. In a huge expansion effort, Yahoo! almost doubles its capacity over that of Google’s roughly 11 billion web elements. “Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo’s database, 19 billion are documents, …

President Bush will sign a new energy bill today that will extend Daylight Savings by four weeks – it will start three weeks earlier and end one week later – in an attempt to save energy and money. The problem is that most consumer electronics rely on the daylight savings …

The briefcase full of diamonds is secondary to the religion of the two men.

The Anguilla Tourist Board has announced the third annual Anguilla Tranquility Jazz Festival, November 9-13, 2005. The stellar lineup of artists scheduled to appear includes vocalists Marlena Shaw, Freddy Cole and Claudia Acuna, vibes man Stefon Harris, pianist Mulgrew Miller, tenor saxophonists Eric Alexander and David Sánchez, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, …

Last night, a small group of the editors of Blogcritics huddled around their respective monitors waiting for SiteMeter to tell them that the ten-millionth visitor to the site had arrived. Fleeting though it was, it was a pretty nifty moment in time. Blogcritics publisher Eric Olsen commemorated the occasion here. …

About a week before our third anniversary (August 12), tbomedia.co.uk — our little “sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, technology, and politics” — has hit the 10 million unique visitors mark. This is a nice big fat round number that speaks volumes toward the talents …

Two-thousand years ago grieving Egyptian parents put their young child to rest in the customary manner: they removed all of the youth’s organs except for the heart, packed the remains in salt to cure them, and wrapped them in linen coated with perfumed resin. They were certain that their careful …