Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.
If the networks can get audiences to tolerate pop-up promos by the dozens, maybe they'll start selling pop-up commercials, too.
By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.
As the mother of a son with disabilities, I try to keep an eye out for news that affects people in the large community of which he is a part.
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.
Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.
How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.
Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.
Owned technologies are easy to grasp because they're so prevalent. They're technologies that are developed and shaped by a defined group, usually someone selling it.
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.
I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust him.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.
