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The best movies I saw in 2007 were all science fiction. I feel very good about this. The list includes:
-The Mist
Nothing like “The Fog” and ‘great’ “Twilight Zone”-esque ensemble acting.
-Children of Men
Feels like reading a great sci-fi novel. Damn realistic. Highly underrated.
-I Am Legend
Better than “Omega Man,” really. Smith finally transcends his corniness.
-Sunshine
Odd casting stops [...]

As a journalist sometimes your gut is your best friend when it comes identifying a story with real legs. Unfortunately, if the subject isn’t on your beat or you simply don’t have the time/resources, a story you know is important will go ignored for years. Such is the case with this blog and the dangers [...]

I’ve read some decent analysis regarding Google’s new Android mobile computing platform and the new video from Sergey Brin announcing the $10 million fund to inspire developers to code new applications for the operating system. After mulling it over for a bit something occurred to me: This is Steve Jobs’ Mac OS vs. Windows nightmare [...]

During a brief speech (about 3 minutes, see video below) about the strike, Writers Guild of America member Howard Gould explains why the writers are striking: “It’s the way my kids watch TV… They hear about a show, they look for it on the Internet. Soon, when computers and your TV are connected, that’s [...]

*This post was originally about the delusional comments from the head of the Writers Guild East, but I interrupt this blog post to mention that one of the most popular shows around, ‘24,’ has officially been cancelled for next season because of the writers strike. Considering that ‘24′ is probably the most popular series drama [...]

So all the hype leading up the release of the rumored GPhone or Google Phone has resulted in one gigantic thud today as the company revealed… no GPhone. Rumors that the announcement would center around software and not hardware started filtering through the blogosphere last week, but many still hoped “some” sort of hardware would [...]

Appropriately, the scariest day for Facebook comes today on Halloween in the form of a post from Ning’s Marc Andreessen announcing Google’s Open Social open web API that will essentially kill the app development momentum of Facebook developers. Open Social will allow these developers to create social networking apps across various platforms, without being hemmed [...]

So the Wikimedia Foundation is moving to Silicon Valley to join the Web 2.0 fun, but meanwhile a very exciting part of the empire has quietly fallen by the wayside—OpenServing. Wikia announced the site late last year as a major initiative to allow anyone to create a social media website complete with RSS and Digg-like [...]

The big chatter today is focused on Google’s acquisition of Twitter competitor Jaiku. Not interested. Twitter has the attention. Pownce and Jaiku are nice, but not as exciting and energized.
So let’s talk about another potentially seismic event in technology: the fast growing momentum of free music from recording artists. By now the story about [...]