Shawn Kemp and I just spent a bit of time defining what metrics we think should be used by conservation groups to measure the success of pages on their website. For background on this, see my previous post regarding functionalism and website metrics for n

China's Earthquake: The Twitter Story Twitter twitter.com/casperodj After today's major quake in southern China, many China-based Twitter users became an important primary news source. Earlier today I got a worried message from a friend in Shanghai (where

On Twitter, Friday, I admitted: I’ve been shamefully, intentionally, avoiding news about the cyclone in *Burma/Myanmar. It’s much worse than I’d imagined.

It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away. Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with

Fortune reports that AT&T is preparing to offer a $200 subsidy for buyers of the next-generation iPhone, widely expected to be introduced this summer. It writes that since the new, presumably faster models will start at the same $399 base price as the cur

The British haven't discovered the Internet yet, but that doesn't mean they can't enjoy Facebook. In today's video we get to see British people, in their natural habitat, enjoying their own real-life adaption of the popular Web site.