Sunday was expected to be in the mid-60s, with clear skies, and fall leaves at their peak. We decided to go to Bushkill Falls for […]
First, Philadelphia Police Lt. Jonathan Josey was captured on video, advancing on a slightly built Latina woman from behind and throwing a hard, sudden right […]
In 2008, Steve Jobs famously predicted, upon its launch, the rapid demise of the Kindle: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, […]
Forget taking on cigar-smoking political bosses. Philly’s reform movement of the moment is focused online, on letting residents click a link and see how every […]
On a train to New York, a week ago Monday, I read an email on my iPhone from a distraught father looking for help. I […]
We have long believed that TouchTunes jukeboxes are ruining bars with their all-digital, play-anything, Internet-connectedness. And nowhere was our heart more broken by an otherwise […]
Late last week, Facebook celebrated a milestone: one billion users. That’s two-fifths of the world’s 2.5 billion Internet users, just in case you were wondering. […]
When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addressed the UN via a satellite video call from the Ecuadorian embassy in London last week, his usual steadfast, cocky […]
Last weekend was Startup Weekend in Philly, and no offense to the great companies who competed (and to voxx.io, the winner of the competition), but […]
When I saw the Axe commercial with the beautiful woman who recommends that men wash their balls, I was mildly amused. When I saw Lewis […]
Last week, we looked at the city’s brand-new Philly 311 app, a clever bit of high-tech public service designed to make it easier for citizens […]
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security alleging that the agencies are dragging […]
On my first day of Journalism 101 at Temple back in 2007, my professor posed a simple question to the class: “Who here reads the […]
Ah, America, the land where we often have more money than brains and develop expansive, revolutionary technology faster than we can keep up socially. Case […]
In his excellent profile of Eagles general manager Howie Roseman in this month’s Philly Mag, Richard Rys devoted a paragraph describing the football executive’s workday […]
