Dylan Tweney

At Wired, we’ve been experimenting with what we loosely call “open source journalism” in a variety of ways. What we’re learning is that there’s a fairly natural flow from quick blog posts to more fully-cooked news stories, and it works something like this. A reporter finds out about a breaking news

My daughter and I will be on TV this week, 8pm local time Wednesday night (Nov. 14) on most PBS stations. That’s when our “GeekDad” segment will air, sometime during that night’s Wired Science program. Wired Science is a collaboration between Wired (my employer) and KCET (a PBS station in LA). I’m n

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Bill Lerach, the securities lawyer whom WIRED magazine called a “bloodsucking scumbag” in 1996, has finally met his match. Lerach is set to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy involving his former law firm, Milberg Weiss, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required). The case alleges

OK, I’ll admit it. I paid the stupid tax. The early adopter tax. Whatever you want to call it, I knew I was paying a premium for my iPhone when I bought it two months ago on the day it launched. I figured it was only a matter of time before Apple reduced the price, […]

Jay Rosen: ‘No one owns the practice of reporting or assigns the right to do it. It’s a democratic thing to tell others what’s going on and “show your work.”‘ The journalism that bloggers actually do

This looks really cool: Google Earth now lets you explore the sky, too. Google LatLong: Sky: The final frontier

In short: keyboard is great; speed and battery life suck: Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old

Josh Caldwell and Hunter Weeks were bored with their cubicle-farm jobs, making good money but feeling empty and unfulfilled. Like many white-collar workers, they dreamed of a life beyond the veal-fattening pens. But unlike most, they found a unique way to bust out of their corporate prison: They rod

Virgin America launched its U.S. air service yesterday, and immediately staked a claim as the most geek-friendly airline yet invented.

Virgin America launched its U.S. air service yesterday, and immediately staked a claim as the most geek-friendly airline yet invented. It’s also one of the most comfortable and pleasant to fly in — and it’s reasonably priced. I flew in the inaugural flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Almost e

Thanks to repeated viewings of Jimmy Neutron, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Scooby Doo, Clara is now obsessed with the idea of building a super-duper clubhouse that contains, among other things, trap doors, secret pools, a waterfall, and levers that make things happen (like pop people into the air).