Stories you'll see in 2008
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The winner of the Iowa caucuses will be ... a local PTA official.
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Upcoming events around the world.
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With the year all but done we take a look back at the news that shaped 2004.
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Like baseball or the weather, the economy can be a difficult thing to predict. Nonetheless, hereâs a sampling of what economists expect for 2008.
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Chosen from the hundreds of products PC World reviewed in 2007, here are 25 that will change the way you work, communicate and play this year -- and beyond.
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It looks like the era of shorter films has had its day. 2007 is going
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The year brought many new things into our lives, but they also entailed some leave-taking. Here is a sampling of things soon to be, as they say, eclipsed by events.
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The books, the people, the movies, the TV shows you won't want--or be able--to miss this season
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A look at the highlights and lowlights of 2007.
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Yes, they could ruin your year in 2008. Make sure they don't.
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What looks good in broadband news for Dec. 9.
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At the Thrift Savings Plan, 2007 was a year of growth and 2008 looks like a year of change.
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Forbes editors and writers take a look ahead at the U.S. business and economy in 2008.
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Media out-forecast each other with predictions of consumer and marketing trends for 2008: consumer trends, advertising and marketing trends, brand trends, fashion trends, IT trends, marketing trends for small and medium-sized companies.
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The BBC News website look at the variety of European traditions at Christmas and New Year.
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After a tumultuous year marked by volatility, recession fears and credit woes, top advisers place their bets for 2008.