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SXSW 2009: 'Free for All' with Chris Anderson and Guy Kawasaki

Chris Anderson, he of Wired fame and current purveyor of 'free', sat down to be interviewed by Alltop founder and self-marketing professional guru and Silicon Valley VC Guy Kawasaki on Tuesday to discuss the future...

Mo' Beta Chocolate: Tcho, Wired, Tasty, No Slavery

Going slowly but surely through my Chocolate Show goodies bag, I finally got to Tcho.What made me stop at their table was the 'Beta' sign.Sounded like Chocolate 2.0I like the light touch they bring to chocolate making.What drives them is the 'Flavor Wheel'...

Current TV, Wired, and Six Apart Slash Jobs

Although mainstream media across America are feeling the negative force of the current financial crisis -- note Conde Nast's employee and publication hachet job last week -- so too are their counterparts in the...

Will the Financial Crisis Kill 'Freeconomics'?

Author Andrew Keen does not believe in the so-called 'wisdom of crowds' and, in our current volatile economic climate, he believes -- even less -- in "web businesses that rely on free labor and crowdsourcing to...

Energy Drinks Should Carry Caffeine Warnings

Doctors recommend that energy drinks should carry health warnings against the dangers of caffeine overdose after research found that the performance enhancing beverages can contain more caffeine than 7 cups of...

The Crowdsourcerer: NowPublic

By JACK KAPICA Globe and Mail Update"he June issue of Wired magazine coined an interesting buzzword: "crowdsourcing." It's like outsourcing, but with a large number of unpaid or...

Bronx druglords busted for stashing cocaine in Lego toys in Puerto Rico and m...

Turns out Lego is for more than building castles these days."Ringleader Jose David Diaz-Ortega, 28, and his eight cohorts used associates in Puerto Rico to ship the coke-laden toy kits to addresses in Manhattan...

Indian company sues Google

A blogger known as “Toxic Writer” has made a few enemies with his angry blog posts and has gotten Google sued in the process."MUMBAI -- A small Indian construction-equipment company is demanding that Google...

Born too soon: Can tiny fighters make it home?

" DALLAS - Seventeen weeks premature, our twin sons were so small, so fragile. And already they'd been through so much.Josh had had heart surgery, Jake a life-threatening bowel operation -- and that was just in their first week. They'd received blood transfusions, endured...

NowPublic @ Vidfest2008: Chris Anderson, Keynote

NowPublic is here at Vidfest liveblogging the keynote address by Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. Follow my updates on Twitter here on my member channel here and on the Vidfest blog here.Here are...

What is Sniper’s Role at Mount Everest?

Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next...

Zombie Apocalypse: What Would You Do?

Wired's Danger Room, which normally focuses on security-related technology, has run a few articles about dealing with disasters far more spectacular-- and exponentially less likely-- than those that normally...

NowPublic@SXSW2008: FM 2.0 - The Future of Radio

SXSW Interactive / Tuesday, March 11, 2008FM 2.0: The Future of Internet Radio PANELISTS: Nancy Miller, Pop Culture Editor, Wired Magazine Anu Kirk, Director of Prod Management, Rhapsody Tom Conrad, CTO, Pandora.comAnil Dewan, Director of New Media, KCRWDavid Hyman,...

Maternal Instinct and the Brain

"A mother’s impulse to love and protect her child appears to be hard-wired into her brain, a new imaging study shows.  Tokyo researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (M.R.I.) to study the...

Buy Nothing Day - Adbusters

"Buy Nothing Day Press Release 2007 2007-11-02 14:22:41 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BUY NOTHING DAY IS COMING – NO PURCHASE NECESSARY (November 23 in the USA and Canada, November 24 internationally) STOP SHOPPING TO GO GREEN: This November, environmentalists, social activists and...

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