Pinterest has become entirely unavoidable. In its mere 23-month existence, the site has managed to create (or rather, curate) a cult-like following of devoted, pinning-obsessed users. It was recently reported that Pinterest drove more referral traffic last month than Google+, Reddit, YouTube,…

They work in places like Kosovo and Grozny, but they live—most of them, at least—in London’s Notting Hill, a neighborhood better known for its Victorian-camisole street fairs than its rocket-propelled-grenade launchers. The town house of CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, the…

The military says Capt. Susan Carlson, 55, has a “personality disorder,” a diagnosis she is disputing. “It's a bad label,” she said. Darren Hauck for The New York Times Capt. Susan Carlson was not a typical recruit when she volunteered for the Army in 2006 at the age of 50. But the Army desperately…

We have written a number of times about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” has compressed the news cycle to the point where the half-life of a scoop is measured in minutes rather than hours or days . And judging by a survey of media attitudes that Craigslist founder Craig…

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We live in two worlds. In the afternoon, on our desktops or laptops, we read news like the new Pew study showing yet another way that newspapers are going to hell. This one was hardly news to anyone in the industry, but it put the issue plainly, if dryly: A new study of advertising in news by the…

Should progressives homeschool their kids? Jacob Wackerhausen/iStockphoto. As a child growing up in Arizona and Georgia college towns during the 1980s and 1990s, the filmmaker Astra Taylor was “unschooled” by her lefty, countercultural parents. “My siblings and I slept late and never knew what day…

Two years ago this month, Apple Computer released a small, sleek-looking device it called the iPod. A digital music player, it weighed just 6.5 ounces and held about 1,000 songs. There were small MP3 players around at the time, and there were players that could hold a lot of music. But if the…

By and ROBERT GEBELOFF Sign In to E-Mail Print Single Page LINDSTROM, Minn. — Ki Gulbranson owns a logo apparel shop, deals in jewelry on the side and referees youth soccer games. He makes about $39,000 a year and wants you to know that he does not need any help from the federal government.…

Tuesday 7 February 2012 This article was taken from the March 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online . When we get to the last week of this month, open your…

Yesterday morning, author Daphne Carr announced that her Kickstarter campaign to fund an independent 2012 edition of the annual Best Music Writing anthology had met its goal. Several hours earlier, as if trying to preserve some cosmic equilibrium, Esquire published a strong early contender for the…

My favorite new tech product over the past year is Instagram , a photo sharing app for the iPhone. But it’s not just a cool app: It also seems to be growing into the next great social Internet company. The stats alone are very impressive: Instagram announced yesterday that in less than 10 months…

Richard Turley, Bloomberg Businessweek's 34-year-old creative director. Bloomberg Dan Frommer Dan Frommer is founder of City Notes and editor of SplatF. Recent Posts Messaging Apps: Growth And Monetization Trends For Mobile's... FIRST TAKE: Apple's Tepid Growth Continues On Slow iPhone Sales The…

WHEN the real estate market was booming in 2007, renters showed up at apartments with checkbook in hand, ready to do battle with anyone else who might want the same place. That changed, of course, when the financial crisis hit in 2008. And the heady days that followed, when renters ruled in a down…

Joanna Coles at the magazine's offices in Midtown Manhattan. Joshua Bright for The New York Times THERE was something maternal about the way Joanna Coles, the British-born editor of Marie Claire magazine, wrapped an arm around Angelina Jolie at a screening last fall of Ms. Jolie’s directorial debut,…

Iron your shirt the first day. Remember the iron? If you’ve forgotten how to use it, mimic the movements of the washerwomen in all those BBC dramas you’ve been watching for the last 12 months. You know, the original seven-part first season of Downton Abbey you put on instead of hanging yourself. The…

Here’s a brain teaser: Your task is to move a single line so that the false arithmetic statement below becomes true. IV = III + III Did you get it? In this case, the solution is rather obvious — you should move the first “I” to the right side of the “V,” so that the statement now reads: VI = III +…

AMONG the wonders of the Internet, Wikipedia occupies a special place. From its birth 11 years ago it has professed, and has tried reasonably hard to practice, a kind of idealism that stands out in the vaguely, artificially countercultural ambience of Silicon Valley. Google’s informal corporate…

[UPDATE] NEW POST: Bill Keller? Me again. Here's another article the New York Times pirated [Thursday, Feb 9] [UPDATE] NEW POST: Bill Keller responds [Friday, Feb 10] [UPDATE] NEW POST: Joe Nocera responds, Booth article republished legally [Wednesday, Feb 15] Bill Keller: I heard you like…

I started at the New York Observer a year ago this week as editor in chief and editorial director of Observer Media Group, and it’s been a fantastic year. We introduced a lot of changes, launched several new properties and gained some nice momentum in expanding the Observer editorially and on the…

In May 1999, Donnie Kanter Winokur, 43, a writer and multimedia producer, and her husband, Rabbi Harvey Winokur, 49, beheld the son of their dreams, the child infertility denied them. Andrey, a pale dark-eyed 1-year-old in a cotton onesie, held in a standing position by a caregiver, appeared in a…

WHEN it began a year ago, The Huffington Post seemed like a remarkably bad idea. The brainchild of Arianna Huffington, the blog was intended to be a liberal counterpoint to The Drudge Report, featuring an elite list of Hollywood bloggers — Gwyneth Paltrow, Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton, among…

Betabeat met Jonah Peretti, Huffington Post co-founder and now founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, in mid-January 2012, just after the hiring of Ben Smith to head up the brand new original news reporting team . It was also just after the announcement of a $15.5 million round of funding and just as the…

Do we need more Web sites writing about tech? Yes, yes we do. Which is good, because here’s another one: BuzzFeed , the online publishing start-up that’s the toast of people who like to write about online publishing start-ups, is adding a tech section run by Gizmodo star Matt Buchanan . This follows…

To the Editor: President Obama’s State of the Union address and the scrutiny of Republican candidates’ tax returns have made income tax disparities a hot topic. Mitt Romney came under attack for paying an effective tax rate of less than 15 percent because his income was mainly in the form of capital…

If you’ve ever lived in New York City, you know exactly what a "pre-war building" is. First and foremost, it’s better than a "post-war building." Why, you might ask, is that so? Well part of the reason has to do with wartime and post-war "urban renewal," that is, the process by which the Washington,…