James Surowiecki's 2004 book, The Wisdom of Crowds, suggested that the more minds you have working on a problem, the better the solution they produce. For example, if a large number of people were asked to guess the distance between...

Amy Tenderich is a San Francisco-based journalist who runs the Diabetes Mine blog, a site that features diabetes-specific information, product reviews, and networking. She gained national notoriety last year when she penned an open letter to Steve Jobs asking him...

On May 25, 1977 a science fiction film was released by 20th Century Fox that struck an unlikely chord in our collective consciousness. The Star Wars series went on to gross $4.5 billion at the box office and create a...

It looks like Verizon is going to have to revamp its popular, "Can you hear me now?" ad campaign. We've grown accustomed to the ubiquitous signal-strength tester crawling the nooks and crannies of our urban and rural landscape asking what...

Note to my readers: Don't make the mistake of allowing the pestilence called Microsoft Vista through the gate of your company -- if your experience is like mine, it is a pestilence likely to wreak havoc for months. Avoid Office...