I have a solution, but first, we need to be honest about what's really causing the death of newspapers and magazines. . . .

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First, let's establish that your monthly cost for using the Web--if you are a typical user--should not change at all. By metering the Web, I do not mean gouging the customer. I mean charging per the amount of activity.

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This article discusses the recent acquisition of CNET by CBS and the future of CBS.

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One of the best things about being on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet each week is that I get to hear about interesting technologies from many different countries and explore the impact that computers and the internet are having in people's daily lives.

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"Hands Across America, Live AID, the Concert for Bangladesh, and so on. The American (and world) public has witnessed one feel-good event (and the ensuing scandals) after another. Each one manages to assuage our guilt about the world's problems, at least a little.

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"There's something annoying about the emergence of the now-ubiquitous social network. My displeasure reached a peak over the weekend when I was recording an edition of the Twit podcast in which Robert Scoble was ranking on the new Amazon e-book reader, the Kindle.

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"Microsoft employees are expected to use Microsoft products at home and at work. So why don't the day-to-day annoyances in Windows ever get fixed?"

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"Google has signed up 34 companies for its Open Handset Alliance. I see them as a bunch of joiners for a whole lot of nonsense."

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Wake me up when this pathetic week of iPhone launch hype is over. "But, I'm not yet so tired that I'm unwilling to post a little flamebait in order to earn PC Mag a few ad impressions while ironically fueling the hype." Hitler got less coverage when he invaded Poland.

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BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- So I'm working on a column about Netflix's streaming video and how nobody seems to understand the entire IPTV scene when the network calls me in a panic about Steve Ballmer going ballistic over the Apple iPhone.

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Citizen journalism, to me, is like citizen professional baseball—it's just not practical. You can't play professional baseball just because you think the Seattle Mariners stink. You're not a good enough ballplayer.

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John C. Dvorak points his cantankerous nature towardst he once great electronics giant Sony Corp. Come for the opinion, stay for the cantankerySony Corp.

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All kidding aside is this guy for real?

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