A federal judge in Georgia judge has, thankfully, seen through the ham-fisted tactics of some ‘creationists’ in Cobb County, a suburb of Atlanta; their latest ploy, to label science textbooks with the ‘warning’ that evolution is a theory, not a fact—apparently to ensure that their children are raised without a proper grounding in science—did not… Continue reading

Richard Menta lists his digital media winners for 2004. Oh, and of course, there are always losers….

A last parting shot at 2004: And yet the truth is I rather like this annual Christmas controversy. For one thing it helps to debunk one of the more absurd myths about America that the rest of the world clings to — that it is firmly in the grip of some theocracy in which schoolchildren… Continue reading

Podcasting? Check it out.

Apparently, even book editors are being outsourced these days… Apparently Newspaper Editors Don’t Do a Lot, Either Following in a great but unfortunate tradition, the NY Observer has a new reporter poking around publishing who has recast the old editors-don’t-edit misconception into the new jargon of outsourcing: “Much the same way that telemarketers and programmers… Continue reading