I’ll admit it: I got into journalism for the money.
Columbia Journalism School dean Nicholas Lemann has said: “I’ve never met a single person in 35 years who went into journalism out of pure economic reason.”
He never met me. While my motivation wasn’t purely financial, I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t the primary reason [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 29th through October 30th:

Wired.com Product Reviews – Get in-depth tech news coverage from Wired and read about how it is shaping culture, education, entertainment, communications and technology.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Banjo used in brain surgery – best headline I’ve seen this [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 10th through October 20th:

Wired Family Search – Searches wired.com and webmonkey.com; works better than the default search tool on the site
The Growth of Talking Points Memo: A Case Study in Independent Media | Media and Technology | AlterNet – Joshua Micah Marshall: “One of [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 2nd through October 3rd:

Stanford School of Engineering – more free learnin’
webcast.berkeley | UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses & Events – free learnin’
Layoffs: Valleywag cuts 60 percent of staff – Bad news for online media: Gawker owner Nick Denton is so pessimistic about [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from September 16th through September 22nd:

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Zell is not your problem. You are. – Newspapers and newspaper companies are about to die. The last remaining puddles of auto, home, job, and retail advertising are about to be sucked down the drain thanks [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from September 12th through September 15th:

Verizon Memo Details Upcoming Touchscreen BlackBerry | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – fuzzy pics and not much detail
Flickr Bikes Shoot Pics With Solar and Pedal Power | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – I want one!
Apple’s iPhone 2.1: The Bug-Fix You’ve Been [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from July 13th through July 18th:

FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH – Agenda – Lots of very important people here
Face of the Future – Upload a picture of yourself and see what you’d look like in the future, or as a different race, or as painted by various artists. [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 30th through July 1st:

How to See 93 Million Miles: Plan a Trip to a Total Solar Eclipse – Amazing piece on eclipses, with tips on how to see one yourself. Author claims that an eclipse gives you a sense of “depth perception” stretching over [...]

These are a few sites I thought were interesting from June 26th through June 27th:

The Many (Geeky) Faces of Bill Gates, a Capsule Biography – In reality, Gates is a smooth operator who, despite his uncombed hair, baby face and disheveled appearance, knew exactly what he was doing every step of the way, making it [...]