Dylan Tweney

Here’s a great, world-changing idea: Give people camcorders. Let them make movies of human rights violations. Show the videos to the world. Founded in 1992 by Peter Gabriel, this organization is already making waves–for instance, videos showing abuses in the juvenile justice system in California wer

The Kansas City Barbecue joint right across from the San Diego Manchester Hyatt, on Harbor Blvd., is a regular dive. The Hyatt concierge steers guests away from the place with a frown and a hesitating reply that suggests it’s less than respectable. Ignore her. “Welcome to the last dump in San Diego,

Excellent video of a couple of Russian kids running, leaping, and climbing all over the crumbling concrete urban environment around them. russian climbing – Google Video (a great example of parkour, which Scot’s blog first turned me on to)

I’ve been moblogging ETech like mad for the past two days, but you might not know it unless you stop by Wired News’ Monkey Bites blog, where I am a guest blogger. You might not know it even then, since the posts are appearing under the regular blogger’s name, Michael Calore. Regular readers of that

Hardly seems credible: Firefox (Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation) made $72M last year?! – The Jason Calacanis Weblog

You’ve Got PayMail AOL has announced plans to charge for sending some e-mail, in hopes of curtailing spam. But skeptics aren’t buying it. By Dylan Tweney, for Technology Review

A new pay-per-message model, currently under consideration by AOL and Yahoo, is meant to avert problems stemming from the flood of spam (junk e-mail) by requiring companies to pay for certified e-mail deliveries, in the same way they pay for certified snail mailings. There’s only one problem: No one

Pliers work very well for opening beer bottles. Just in case.

I’ll be covering/moblogging O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology conference in San Diego next week, for Wired News. If you’ll be at the conference, drop me a line and let me know how to get in touch with you during the show. My email address is on my contact page. UPDATE 3/6: You’ll find my blog entries o

From our seats at the very top of the balcony the dancers, in their brightly-colored pants and tank tops, looked as small and unreal as fairies. “Can I pick them up?” Clara whispered to me. We went to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater perform in Berkeley last night. It was an amazing dance

One thing Apple does truly brilliantly is the cardboard boxes its products come in. Microsoft, not so much. (parody video)

Career columnist Penelope Trunk has a great idea in her column this week: The caffeine nap. Drink a cup of coffee, then immediately take a short 15-minute nap. By the time you’re done napping, the caffeine is kicking in and you can wake up quickly, alert and refreshed.