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***Roger Ebert had an agenda full of projects when he passed away last week at age 70. One of them: launching a Kickstarter campaign for a weekly TV series comeback. If Ebert saw crowdfunding as a way to bring TV programming about, you better believe many others do. We’ll never see what Ebert could have Continue Reading →

After months of speculation – and just about a week of more accurate guesses – Facebook finally unveiled its ‘Facebook phone.’ Except it’s not a phone. “We’re not building a phone and we’re not building an operating system,” Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at Facebook’s event on Thursday, “but we are building something Continue Reading →

When you’re doing work on-the-go, an old laptop can feel like it weighs a million pounds, even if you’re only lugging it as far as your local coffee shop. In recent years, Intel-powered devices like Ultrabooks have become increasingly lighter, faster and sleeker. Some even have the ability to transform from a laptop to a Continue Reading →

A recently released Pew study declared, “The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys.”  Sometimes Twitter reaction is more liberal than public opinion, sometimes more conservative, said Pew.  But when it comes to Twitter reaction regarding the 2012 elections and President Obama’s Continue Reading →

More than four years ago, in early 2009, I published a column saying that the great recession we had just entered would be a green recession. In February 2009, in a column titled, “This Great Recession is Actually Green,” I wrote: “The view here is that when the U.S. does emerge from this recession in Continue Reading →

We did it, America. After years of complaining in coach and fussing in first class, we’re about to get our way. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hopes to announce by the end of the year that it will relax the rules on reading devices during takeoff and landing. The rule change would not apply to cell Continue Reading →

While the U.S. may not be quite ready to formally decide constitutional issues à la Iceland (Overcoming a Meltdown with Social Media), it is becoming apparent that social media plays an ever increasing role in shaping U.S. policy, governmental agendas, and even the outcomes of elections. This week, in preparation for the Supreme Court review Continue Reading →

We all know the familiar mantra: What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unfortunately, the same is also true on the Internet. What happens on the Web stays on the Web – and in the public eye – potentially forever. What this means is that a single negative review or defamatory comment about your company Continue Reading →

Single parenting is hard enough. Add in the stresses of daily professional life, and you wouldn’t blame a working single parent for wanting to stay in bed all day. No matter what your profession is, working as a single parent means juggling responsibilities long after you clock out. Providing for your children financially is an Continue Reading →

I’m trying to make sense of T-Mobile’s new wireless contract pricing plans. And I’m having a hard time. If you didn’t hear, T-Mobile got rid of the two-year contract system that every other major carrier locks its customers into, instead opting for a month-by-month payment system. Plans start at $50 for unlimited talk and text, Continue Reading →