The Web 2.0 economy hangs in limbo

It was only a matter of time before the Web 2.0 community started to feel the burn of the US recession. This comes at a particularly bad time. as many newer Web 2.0 companies are still trying to figure out how to...

Bush Calls For Cuban Democracy

Right on the heels of Castro stepping down as commander in chief, President Bush calls for democracy.  However, the U.S. embargo will not be lifted. "President Bush said Castro's decision ought to spark "a...

How To Pickup Japanese Women

Satoshi Fujita has spent years in research in order to teach Japanese men how to pickup women.  Through his research he has found that, "woman like laughter, compliments and magic tricks." He teaches his classes at popular cram schools across Japan. "Fujita's Pickup...

Slow Down: Use Semicolon

In a world gone mad one man is trying to bring the semicolon, a reminder to slow down and take stock, back into the public eye.  It's nice to see some discussion around getting back to basics when it comes to...

Sheryl Crow No Longer Writing For The Radio

Sheryl Crow is just one artist that has come to terms with the fact that it's not all about writing a radio pop hit. There is an economy out there for so many new genres of music, freeing up artists like Crow to...

Only Britney Can Save US Economy

As Britney goes, so goes the US economy. Britney Spears is touring less, thus injecting less into the ailing US economy. Coincidence? Portfolio magazine doesn't think so."The most useful magazine journalism of the...

Best Seller Written on a Cell Phone

"The cellphone novel was born in 2000 after a home-page-making Web site, Maho no i-rando, realized that many users were writing novels on their blogs; it tinkered with its software to allow users to upload works in progress and readers to comment, creating the serialized...
 

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