Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The recession is leading lots of out-of-work folks to try new things, reports the Times: Economists say that when the economy takes a dive, it… Read the rest of the article: Bad Times Spur Entrepreneurship, But There's a Catch

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. On an NPR newscast the other day, a reporter pronounced the year 2012 as "two-thousand-twelve" while someone he interviewed called it "twenty-twelve." I'd have gone… Read the rest of the article: When Do We Start Calling Years 'Twenty-Somethings'?

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. We're heading into scary territory with space garbage. The AP reports on Space station's close call with junk: More to come: The near-hit of space… Read the rest of the article: Space Junk's Threat

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Tabloid journalism is often worse than none at all. But now, the NY Times reports, the media business' bottom feeders are going after the corporate… Read the rest of the article: Tabloid TV Goes After Bailout Babies

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. In the this-sucks-if-true category, we hear from mobileread: As some of you may already know, this week we received a DMCA take-down notice from Amazon… Read the rest of the article: Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. BoingBoing reader Marissa Frayer writes: Perhaps print journalism foreshadowed its fledgling future long ago with its morbid jargon. Morgue. Gutter. Beat. Deadline. Dummy. Kill. Widow.… Read the rest of the article: Newspapers' Depressing Internal Lingo

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. So Bernard Madoff is heading to prison, most likely for the rest of his life. Will it be hard time or a low-security lockup for… Read the rest of the article: Madoff to Jail; Hope He's First of Many

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The Obama administration has named the latest of America's "drug czars" — the person who heads the War on (Some) Drugs, a futile, expensive and… Read the rest of the article: Legalizing Drugs: The Least Bad Answer

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Late last year, just before Bank of America closed a deal to buy a failing Merrill Lynch, the BoA's executives signed off on $4 billion… Read the rest of the article: Searching for an Honest Bank

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society's new Media Cloud is a system that lets you see the flow of the media. The Internet… Read the rest of the article: Media Cloud: Watching Media Flow

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The poor widdle babies at NBC are soooo unhappy with Jon Stewart's skewering of CNBC's stock-market boosterism and stupid behavior. If you haven't seen it… Read the rest of the article: NBC Stars Whimper About Jon Stewart's Skewering of CNBC

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. The ACLU of Northern California has put out a primer, Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business, (1.5 MB pdf) to "help companies avoid… Read the rest of the article: New Primer to Help Businesses Build in Customer Privacy Protection

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. I pick on the New York Times a lot for its flubs, not because I hate the paper or because I own some nearly… Read the rest of the article: NY Times and 'Serious' Journalism

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Like lots of folks these days I find myself speculating about whether we're heading into something worse than a bad recession, such as the kind… Read the rest of the article: When It All Falls Apart

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Following this guy? UPDATE: Read the comments — they're hilarious.

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. So I just stopped by Slate, a (quite good) traditional magazine that is owned by the Washington Post Co. and happens to live on the… Read the rest of the article: Slate: How to Annoy Your Audience

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. In his worthy campaign — dubbed Yes We Scan! — to become America's public printer, or head of the Government Printing Office, Carl Malamud will… Read the rest of the article: Yes (Carl) Scan

Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. So we're down to naked collusion? That's the proposal from the NY Times' David Carr this morning, in his latest column about the crumbling business… Read the rest of the article: Saving Newspapers, Part MMIX: Collude and Conspire

Dan Gillmor is a guest blogger at BoingBoing. If you're a Verizon Wireless customer and care about your privacy, David Weinberger has news: A small legalistic pamphlet from Verizon arrived… Read the rest of the article: Opting Out of Verizon's New Data Sharing Policy

Dan Gillmor is a guest blogger at BoingBoing. I'm jazzed to be here! Thanks to Mark and the BB crew for the invite. As a former journalist-for-pay who gives public… Read the rest of the article: On Being a BoingBoing Guest Blogger