Feb 02 One-Million Car March? By Paul Solman A warning to those expecting EVs (electric vehicles) to clog the roadways anytime soon, or even to meet President Obama's stated goal of one million by 2015: It's not likely to happen, despite the fact that the U.S. has as… Continue reading
Jan 26 Watch What Impacts Do Egypt's Protests Have Beyond Its Borders? Judy Woodruff looks at what the protests in Egypt and Tunisia mean for the Muslim world and beyond with Tarek Masoud of Harvard University. Continue watching
Jan 26 Watch In Egypt, Protests Continue Despite Blocked Access to Communication Channels Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports from Cairo on the political demonstrations against President Hosni Mubarak as Egyptian officials try to dissuade further protests. Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch Charities Look to Social Media to Turn Friends Into Funders Americans are expected to have given roughly $300 billion in charitable donations in 2010 with individuals making up $220 billion of that. For a closer look at the role of social media in philanthropy and its limitations, Ray Suarez speaks… Continue watching
Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface By Hari Sreenivasan For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there… Continue reading
Aug 31 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the White House announces the launch of a new dance performance series. Continue reading
Aug 18 Mom Says the Darndest Things: 10 Questions for Kelly Oxford By Tom LeGro Kelly Oxford started writing an anonymous blog more than seven years ago after spending a lot of time online reading sites about child-rearing. What she found were places where fellow mothers could communicate with each other, but they just weren't… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Author Disconnects From Communication Devices to Reconnect With Life In this day and age, much communication is done by e-mail, text messages, Twitter and other forms of digital communication. William Powers, author of "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," explains how… Continue watching
Jul 16 Gwen's Take: Entering the 'Twitterverse' By Gwen Ifill You see, that headline is what I've always hated about Twitter. It's way too cute. But, alas, I have been lured in. My first week on Twitter has been enlightening, funny and a little creepy. You have to understand… Continue reading