Last month I asked my friends to write about books they loved (you can read all the essays here). This month, I invited them to write about their favorite graphic… Read the rest of the article: Great Graphic Novels: Gods' Man, by Lynd Ward

This is one in a series of essays about enthralling books. I asked my friends and colleagues to recommend a book that took over their life. I told them the… Read the rest of the article: Enthralling Books: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

This week, Boing Boing is presenting a series of essays about movies that have had a profound effect on our invited essayists. See all the essays in the Mind Blowing… Read the rest of the article: Mind Blowing Movies: Invaders from Mars (1953), by Douglas Rushkoff

Everyone seems to have A.D.D. these days. (In case you’ve been too distracted by your Twitter feed to remember, A.D.D. stands for Attention Deficit Disorder — the inability to focus… Read the rest of the article: A.D.D. comic book: Exclusive essay and excerpt by author Douglas Rushkoff

I'm done with my guest posting this weekend, and very happy for the opportunity to engage with everyone from this side of the blog. I'm still a concerned that too… Read the rest of the article: A Farewell Excerpt

This particularly hideous website is nonetheless a gold mine for designers and old TV heads, claiming to have every television logo ever made. Scrolling through is at once an education… Read the rest of the article: TV LogoMania!

If we are to believe the latest conclusions of Tony Wright (speaking above in a National Geographic documentary) the left brain hemisphere has not simply dominated a more passive right;… Read the rest of the article: How the Left Hemisphere Colonized Reality

Remember the recently degraded Texas textbook standards? The ones requiring the removal of left-leaning historical figures like Thurgood Marshall, while inserting important institutions such as the Heritage Foundation, the National… Read the rest of the article: Write or Be Written

Life Inc is being made into a series for the NBC Today show called Life Inc: The Economy and You. Unfortunately for me, it's not based on my book Life… Read the rest of the article: Life Inc Becomes NBC Today Show Series

Capitalizing on the bad vibes circulating on release of Facebook-bashing The Social Network social networking competitor The Fridge has come up with a poster campaign based on those of the… Read the rest of the article: The Fridge Campaign

Robert Anton Wilson and his crew set up an online academy for him to teach James Joyce and other subjects to those of us who thrived off his learning and… Read the rest of the article: A MaybeLogic Academy Course

Dan Goldman, who hit the comics scene running with a debut graphic novel hit Shooting Wars, has blossomed into one of the industry's most innovative artists and self-publishers. Somehow, he… Read the rest of the article: A Free Comic, Courtesy Dan Goldman and Tor Books

The best part about watching documentaries in a movie theater is who you get to see them with. Docs, especially about esoteric subjects, bring together the greatest and weirdest people… Read the rest of the article: Grant Morrison on the Big Screen

My daughter's first video game obsession? Nimblestrong, an iPhone game that teaches you how to bartend as you select, drag, and time your pours of various drink recipes into appropriate… Read the rest of the article: NimbleStrong: the iPhone bartending-manga game

Astra Taylor and Laura Hanna, the filmmakers behind the fabulous documentary Zizek! have just released a short promotional video that shares the core concepts of my new book Program or… Read the rest of the article: Program or Be Programmed: The Video Short

Marc Canter – the guy who brought us Macromedia and the first multimedia authoring tools wants to help post-industrial cities like his own Cleveland re-employ its citizens in a new… Read the rest of the article: Marc Canter's Digital City

Collapsus Introduction from SubmarineChannel on Vimeo. I just met Tommy Pollatta at the Open Video Conference in NY. He's the producer of Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly, and now… Read the rest of the article: Transmedia: The Future of

I just published this on Huffington Post. Maybe some policymakers will consider adding programming to the US public school curriculum…. Just last year, while researching a book on America's digital… Read the rest of the article: Why Johnny Can't Program

One of my favorite musicians and artists, Archer Prewitt, best known for the comic Sof'Boy and band Sea and Cake has just finished the latest figurine in his series for… Read the rest of the article: Howlingly Cute