Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation

Online aggregators are financial vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the news business! You know — evil digital upstarts like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times. More »

Facebook's new value: $1.3 billion?

With more than 120 million users, Mark Zuckerberg's social network continues to grow, kudzu-like. And yet it is worth far less today than the $15 billion it commanded a year ago. Why is that?

Big in Japan! How Twitter jumped the Pacific

The digital revolution promised us that the nation state would wither away. But the spread of social networks show that however much the Internet connects us, quirks divide us. Take, for example, the inexplicable popularity of Twitter in Japan. Tokyo out-tweets New York and San Francisco combined. Pingdom, a website analyst, finds that Twitter is more intensely popular in Japan than in the United States. The conventional theories — Japan's high wireless usage, for example — fail to explain it. More »

New York's Gay Jewish Mafia

Among the more engaging features of Cityfile, the new directory of notables from media and business, are the lists. Obsessives can browse through New York celebrities who own Yorkies, for instance. (Taavo Somer of Freemans and dowager-gossip Cindy Adams: you have so much in common!) But the lists will be most useful for conspiracy theorists. Have you ever suspected a cabal—of Jews and gays, Jewish gays, Iranian Jewish gays and Radar's Maer Roshan—is determined to remake America in their image? You're right! While acknowledged members of these minorities represent only 4% of the wider population (see below), they make up more than 30% of Cityfile's who's who of 2,100 New Yorkers. More »