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New York Times, Los Angeles Times Among 2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2011 Pulitzer Prizes were announced recently, with The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times both earning two awards....  read more

SXSW Film Round-Up: Documentaries

As usual, SXSW Film Fest overflowed with documentaries—some good, some medium well. My thoughts on a handful of them....  read more

Seven Sundance Documentaries We're Looking Forward To

At a festival that can be as risk-taking (and—dare we say—esoteric) as Sundance, a documentary can be a lot safer bet than a narrative film. After all, if nothing else you actually did get a peek into real life events, right? And as 2010 vividly showed, sometimes the cinematic heights scaled by documentaries are every bit as impressive as those scaled by their narrative brethren. Here are seven we're especially looking forward to this year.  read more

New York Times Invites All to Play Hometown Tour Guide

Given enough time stationed in one city, one can’t help but accumulate an archive of insider’s activities....  read more

Shop Talk: Overwhelming Undersharing

The New York Times published an article last week called T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing. In it, Brad Stone wrote about the growing number of sites that allow you to share absolutely everything online, from your location (Foursquare and Twitter), to purchases you’ve made (Blippy and Swipely) to the number of push ups you’ve done (iPhone app Skimble). The underlying message of the piece was cautionary, discussing the possibilities of identity and financial theft, and when Blippy announced early this week that Google had crawled and saved users’ transaction data (including airline confirmation numbers and parts of credit...  read more

Amazon's Kindle DX Release Ignites Blogging Bonfire

Amazon's digital reader Kindle is being heralded by the press with a mixture of fear and adoration better suited to an apocalypse than a machine. But, according to some, the Kindle could turn out to be just that for the publishing industry....  read more

New York Times publishes 10 Best Books of 2008 list

Last week, The New York Times unveiled its "10 Best Books of 2008" list, and seven of the selections were published by Random House imprint Alfred A. Knopf. The sweep is not exactly surprising, as Knopf sits at the upper echelon of literary publishers; but if you take this 7/10 domination and include the ownership that came with the recent restructuring of Random House, two of the remaining three are from the Knopf/Doubleday Publishing Group. ...  read more

Bono to write op-ed column for New York Times

U2's Bono, famous musician, hob-nobber and philanthropist, has been invited by The New York Times to pen a column for the publication's Op-Ed page....  read more