Steve Jobs has been demurring about the next evolution of the iPod, but things are happening. Today’s a scoop bonanza on Apple’s rumored upcoming video iPods. No sooner did I post an item earlier today on Apple’s plans to make music videos available through iTunes than my fellow B2.0 editor-at-large Paul Sloan shoots me an… Continue reading

Biologist Kenneth Miller has an eloquent response to Cardinal Schoenborn’s recent and rather ill-conceived op-ed on the Church and Evolution (linked to in Miller’s article).

Superb summary of the ‘debate’ between creationists and evolutionists. On the polemical creationist side, the sin is intellectual dishonesty. It begins innocently as a wise recognition that faith must precede reason, even if the faith is only in reason itself (as Gödel showed, reason cannot prove its own validity). But under pressure from a contemptuous… Continue reading

You know, I understand that journalists are busy people. But if this is the best (registration required) that such leading lights of conservative commentary can do when it comes to evolution (and thank God at least there’s Charles Krauthammer)…then I have seriously over-estimated how well read they are. Disappointing to say the least.

This looks like good news for me and other independent film producers. The acquisition of CustomFlix could give independent filmmakers a broader venue for selling their work. Amazon already sells CustomFlix titles, but a spokeswoman for the online retailer said that they would be “better integrated” into the company’s catalog and eligible for promotions that… Continue reading