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Easy Miso Bread; AKA I Ain't Got Time for That Sourdough Marathon Bread; AKA 80/20 Bread

For folks looking to make their own bread at home (or bread to share with neighbors), I’m sharing my recipe for an easy-to-make, very-little-kneading round rustic bread. It’s super forgiving recipe that makes crowd-pleasing bread without needing a sourdough starter or a KitchenAid mixer. Mine’s a variation

Chromecast, the Wonder Device, Ties Together the Little A/V System That Can

My dog is named Little. My living room is little. And my audio-video set-up is little. But my dog and my A/V setup are awesome. The awesomeness of the latter is in no small part thanks to a really nice boost from Google Chromecast. For those unfamiliar, it’s

Leaving Wired to Spend More Time with Startup Contextly

Ten years of writing and editing at Wired, covering everything from the NSA to Y Combinator, has taught me many things: that privacy and transparency matter, that journalism is hard and fascinating, and that, while the future of news and publishing is the Web, the tools for online journalism remain

Founders and Funders: Stop Screwing Users on Privacy

Michael Arrington comes to the defense Sunday of one of his Crunchfund portfolio companies, Path, arguing that the New York Times‘s Nick Bilton is just piling on after Path “showed its belly” by apologizing for secretly copying and storing its users’ contacts in a company database. But Arrington’s

Facebook Gets Caught Going After Google

Facebook recently got caught hiring a PR firm to push stories about a Google social feature that Facebook thought was too deep an invasion of privacy. The ploy backfired on the social networking giant and its PR firm. Catch a flavor of the story with these posts (Getting Caught, Getting

Teens See Facebook Differently

Parents often think their teenage children will post anything to the web, and that it’s fair game for them to comment on their kid’s status messages. But teens have a different idea of what kind of public space Facebook actually is, according to new research from Microsoft. In

Thanks BoingBoing!

I love Creative Commons-licensed content. At Wired.com, we rely heavily on photographers who license their photos on Flickr for re-use with credit. And now, I’m launching a data-mining project at the site world-facts.net using 10 years of posts from BoingBoing.net, which they license under a liberal

Bloomberg Game Changers Tackles Twitter

A month or so ago, the crew that makes the Bloomberg Game Changers documentaries about entrepreneurs who have transformed our lives stopped by the Wired offices to ask me a bit about Twitter. The 25-minute show is now online and being show on Bloomberg TV. Check out the trailer below,

Facebook, Faux Dating and Fox

A few weeks ago, I wrote a story for Wired.com about how two performance artists had scraped 1 million Facebook profiles to create a fake dating site — the story took off quickly, as did the cease-and-desist letters from Facebook’s lawyers. The site — Lovely-Faces.com — is shut down now,

Mark Zuckerberg Does SNL (Thrice)

This week’s Saturday Night Live had three versions of Mark Zuckerberg kicking the show off. Not knee-slapping, but actually quite funny.

In Praise of Twitter

In December, Twitter received a court order from the Justice Department seeking details on users connected to Wikileaks, an order that came with a gag order forbidding the site from revealing the existence of the order. Twitter fought that gag order and won the right to tell the account holders

Talking Facebook and Parents with Susannah Baldwin

Late last year, Susannah Baldwin asked me to be on her parenting show on KWMR radio to talk about Facebook. Thankfully, Susannah asked really good questions and kept away from fear mongering to talk clearly about parents, kids, and Facebook. If you are a parent living in the digital age,

On Glenn Greenwald Distorting My Words

In Glenn Greenwald’s recent response to Wired’s explanation of why it is not releasing more of the Bradley Manning/Adrian Lamo chat logs in the Wikileaks controversy, he defends himself by unethically cherry-picking and truncating a quote from an e-mail from me, that he says, erroneously, that I

Talking Net Neutrality on NPR

NPR’s Talk of the Nation kindly invited me on last week to explain what the net neutrality debate is all about, and what it means for regular net users. I’m afraid I got a bit too technical, having been used to writing for Wired.com’s tech savvy

NPR Marketplace Tech Report Asks About Facebook Groups

American Public Media’s Marketplace Tech Report looked into Facebook groups and the controversy over letting your friends auto-add you to a group, without you having to confirm it, in this October 13, 2010 report. Despite the high-profile gaffe of someone adding Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to the NAMBLA group,

Fighting to Get a Facebook Word in with CNBC

An oldie but goodie from May 26, 2010. I was invited onto CNBC to talk about Facebook, and ended up fighting to get a word in with the raucous CNBC crew, who clearly have fun at their jobs.

Fuck All of Us for the Mosque Debate

The controversy over the planned mosque in lower Manhattan, blocks from the site of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, led me to go back to re-watch Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, the first movie to try deal with the emotional reverberations of that terrible day of loss and suffering.