The New York Times introduces TimesMachine: See every page from September 18, 1851, to December 30, 1922. That means you can see pages from the Civil War, the assassination of President Lincoln, the sinking of the Titanic, World War I, the Black Sox scandal, and the start of Prohibition. TimesMachine is available only to NYT [...]

During the (very strange) budget meeting Monday, someone questioned why a story on MySpace was big news — more important, why it warranted a position on A1. I tried to explain that MySpace was the largest social networking site. Proof from Hitwise: • MySpace has 5.86 percent of the total market share. Google is No. [...]

I’ve been preoccupied by the new love of my life: Flash 8. I don’t know what I’m going to do when the free trial ends in 27 days … OK, since I’ve been very nerdy lately (Hello, I just professed my love for a computer program. It doesn’t get much nerdier than that.), I should [...]

Fox News makes you stupid: … the survey respondents who seemed to know the most about what’s going on — who were able to identify major public figures, for example — were likely to be viewers of fake news programs like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”; those who knew the least [...]

The BBC sent out two breaking news alerts today: • Prince William has split up from his girlfriend Kate Middleton. Clarence House has not made an official comment on the event. • Silver Birch wins the Grand National steeplechase at Aintree racecourse. It was obviously a big news day. Actually, it was a big day [...]