Artificial Grass Roots? 'Astroturf' Groups Represent Industries, Not the Public
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By Anna Marie Kukec Daily Herald Business Writer  A group called TV4US Coalition placed advertising inserts in newspapers statewide last week aiming to "educate" consumers on how to get better, more competitive rates for television in Illinois.  Is TV4US a tax-exempt non-profit? Yes.
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Imbedding security chips in possessions and pets is nothing new. Chipping people, however, has Orwellian overtones that angers civil libertarians and conservatives alike.
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Disdaining environmentalism in the battle against global warming.
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In Silicon Valley, buying rather than building from the bottom up is seen as counter to the reinvention culture.
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English-derived neologism bids for world domination God alone knows what Cervantes would have made of it, but the English term "blogosphere" has slithered onto the growing list of neologisms shoehorned into the noble Castillian language, joining chatear, chip, formatear, Internet and mÃ³dem in a burgeoning list of tech and net-based foreign vocab.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Company already uses others' open-source modules, but its own foundation follows suit in a bid to lure developers and customers.
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By Adam Shell and Matt Krantz Droughts. Hurricanes. Rising temperatures. Melting glaciers. In a world abuzz with talk about global warming, climate change is elbowing aside tech and biotech as the major investment theme of the future.
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Some spectacular companies are hiding in an unlikely place.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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The dangers of investing in companies that are out to change the world.
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One analyst says a big chunk of the so-called "open source market" is already made up of leading traditional software vendors such as IBM and Oracle, who are following hybrid open source/propietary business models. And "pure play" vendors aren't necessarily that pure, either.
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Any organization willing to donate a patent for environmentally friendly technology can join the group.
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Company weighs idea after thousands of users vote for it online.
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A new study shows raises questions about the straying of plants altered through biotechnology and that could hurt the efforts of two companies to win approval for the first bioengineered grass.