An audit of Apple's suppliers has found all sort of transgressions. But will we ever take notice of the real reasons that our cheap electronics are so inexpensive?Was your iPod built on the back of child labour? That's something everyone should be...
Last week, I attended a speech by Chris Anderson, author of the the Long Tail, and more recently, of Free. In his spare time, he’s also the Editor of Wired. The speech was not about, however, Wired, or Free, or Long Tails – he was talking all abou...
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A look at the Republicans' tactics for defeating health care and misinforming the public:
One of the favorite sports of most media conferences these days involves trotting out Wired editor Chris Anderson’s “freemium” idea—which is predicated on balancing free online and paid premium content—and kicking it to the ground. The topic serve...
By Dave Banks It hardly seems possible, but GeekDad is very nearly three years old. On March 15, 2007, our beloved Editor Emeritus Chris Anderson published the first article on this blog; it’s been a bit of a long and strange trip from there to he...
Following last week’s election 2.0 debate at the Frontline Club, the Guardian’s digital media research editor, Kevin Anderson shared some fairly critical thoughts on his personal blog. Moderator, Sky News political correspondent Niall Paterson (so...
Brandee Barker couldn’t use her competitor’s search engine; Brad King was called a ‘nerdy dipshit;’ and Karl Lagerfeld got tired of having to defend himself. The Twitterati were wryly war weary. Someone sent journalism professor Brad King a messag...
J-Lab Executive Director Jan Schaffer was invited to speak at USC Annenberg as part of a series of special lectures on the future of news. In this presentation, Jan says news entrepreneurs need to follow their guts and move into the “squirm zone”....
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grateful Dead. Some love, after scores of concerts in the 1970s. Some hate, after too many versions of "Sugar Magnolia" and mainlining way too much talk from flower-child libertarians. But you have to admir...
As always, MakeUseOf was buzzing during the month of February with the launch of MakeUseOf Answers, the publication of two manuals, two free product giveaways, and the re-starting of our Polls. Add to that the publication of over 200 articles and...
