Science and Technology

Computer security experts mi2g say Al Jazeera “is running its computer network like a ‘match-box’ organisation in comparison to its Western peer group”: Al-Jazeera, the at times controversial Arab news satellite channel, has had its computer network compromised by Trojans with built-in mail relay engines since the Arab weekend began …

In general, my dealings with customer service/call center operators have been positive over the last few years: I may not get done exactly what I wanted to get done, but I usually have the sense the person tried, and more often than not I take my issue up a level …

Talk about echo chamber: the Internet is swell and all as a communication device and information source, BUT YOU MUST CONSIDER THE SOURCE. The stupid shit that gets passed around breathlessly from bored office-bound computer slave to computer slave wouldn’t survive a smell test by Jake Gittes if those doing …

Text messaging technology helped link people and information during and in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster, and texting may become part of a warning system for the Indian Ocean: Sanjaya Senanayake works for Sri Lankan television. The blogging world, though, might know him better by his online name, Morquendi. …

Our 5 year-old daughter is now totally into monster and superhero movies, and so we were watching The Return of the Mummy the other night. The scene where the reconstituted mummy, who has powers and shit, raises up the waters of the Nile into a monstrous wave with his open-mouthed …

According to a new report issued today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 2004 was the year blogs took off, with readership up 58%: By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American …

A history, in words and pictures, of the People Who Love Macs.

I — a hard-boiled veteran of the media contest wars — am pretty jaded, but this is an impressive prize package from Interscope/A&M: *2 tickets to every Interscope/A&M show in the winners hometown *every Interscope/A&M album that comes out in 2005 *plus other special prizes (including autographed items) throughout the …

I am honored and humbled — to a degree of which my typically expansive ego is unaccustomed — to have been asked by Small Business Trends to speak live on the global nerve-net as part of their speaker’s series “SMB Trendwire” Thursday, December 16 at 4pm ET. The conversation with …

Projekt30 — the online gallery, run by artists, designed to expose artists to “brick and mortar” art galleries which may be interested in presenting their work — has its juried December exhibition up now, featuring the work of Adam Long Adriene Hughes Anna Delis Charlotta Hauksdottir Christina Neofotistou Debbie Angell …