Science and Technology

Q&A With Jay Berkowitz, South Florida Techrepreneur

​The Boca Raton-based TenGoldenRules.com specializes in business to business (B2B) internet marketing between small, medium, and large businesses.Jay Berkowitz, its founder and CEO, is a true entrepreneur in the internet marketing field. He's promoted such companies as McDonald's and Coca-Cola. In ... More >>

The Next Big Tech Money Maker: Virtual Goods

​​A couple of years ago, if you'd have said "virtual goods" to someone, they would have assumed you meant digital consumer items like electronic books or music. Not anymore. Now, Virtual Goods are the hottest new market on the Web and it's expected to hit $1 billion or more next year in the U.S. ... More >>

The Domain Name Industry, South Florida, and Professionalism

​Last week, I attended the SouthFloridaDomainers.com event, which was put on by the company Oversee.net. Most of the early innovation in domain name trading, development, and selling originated right here in South Florida. The founders of SFD, Mike Ward, Stu Maloff, and Brian Diener, are some loca ... More >>

What Is a Social Media Expert Anyway?

There is nothing magical to social media​Five minutes looking at marketing information on the internet or attending any tech conference will tell you that the latest craze in "instant gurus" is to title yourself a "social media expert." Anyone can do it. Just start using the term and vaguely talki ... More >>

Chairlift

Will the Internet Be Full Next Year?

​If you haven't gotten an iPhone, registered your preferred web address, or otherwise secured your location on the internet, you might want to do so now.  According to the European Commission in a recent survey of organizations, most have not upgraded to the new IPv6 internet protocols and ar ... More >>

Foodbuzz.com Brings Food Blogs to the Forefront

​This weekend, self-proclaimed "foodies" with a gift for prose will descend on San Francisco for the first ever Foodbuzz.com Blogger Festival. The three-day gathering will culminate with an awards ceremony where Foodbuzz will hand out golden forks to the top food blogs in a number of categories (e ... More >>

Koch's Spokesman: Wind Farm is a "Boondoggle"

Flickr user: andjohan​Yesterday, The Juice brought you the tale of Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire energy mogul who has spent millions of dollars to oppose an offshore wind farm that will sully his view of Nantucket Sound. We speculated that Koch's opposition might have something to do with ... More >>

Palm Beach Billionaire Sailor Fights to Stop Wind Farm

Flickr user: andjohanWind farm? NIMBY!​You'd think Bill Koch might be a fan of wind energy. The billionaire Palm Beach energy magnate made some of his fortune off eco-friendly geo-thermal and natural gas power plants. He's also an avid sailor who won the America's Cup in 1992.But it appears that w ... More >>

Nuclear Energy: South Florida's Misunderstood Friend

Thanks for that, Smithers. Now that we're in the midst of the public hearings on whether to build two new nuclear power plants on Turkey Point, Florida Power & Light is asking you to think of nuclear power as an adorable, avuncular, and perfectly harmless cartoon character.Keep Smilin' Joe Fiss ... More >>

And You Thought Twitter Was Worthless: Buy-One-Get-One Tickets to the Miami International Wine Fair

​When Facebook started gobbling up MySpace users, you were one of the first to jump ship. These days, your Twitter account has hundreds of followers and you update your status bi-hourly (4 minutes ago: I remembered why I used to love Captain Crunch so much as a kid). Well now all that social netwo ... More >>

49 States Green With Envy Over Florida's Environmental Progress

Radio Green Earth: Making the world safer for tree frogs​Bet you thought South Florida was a lot more likely to win accolades for "best strip malls" or "extra egregious decimation of natural wildlife" than for anything much greener than development dollars. But it turns out Florida is among the to ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch

via Cook To Bang... mmmm PoonchiladasAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can't get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on less-local blogs:Serious Eats is a... well a serious food blog. Professional ... More >>

Tweet Tweet: Sun-Sentinel Getting Social

New memo from the Sun-Sentinel. Ladies and gentleman, newspaper's management lexicon gets a fairly new title: "Social Media Coordinator." It's all about Twitter and Facebook and what not. And the SMC for the newspaper is Chris Tiedje. Here's the memo:     Several weeks ago, Seth Liss ... More >>

Blogged To Death

Tego Calderon

Are We There Yet?

Jeez, can we just embrace the electric car already?

“Anyway, This Cake is Great”

“It’s so delicious and moist.”

Jukebox in the Sky

Car Club Crazy

The South Florida Dubs go scrapingly low

Scramble Me Up a Universe

Florida Stage and the physics of fun and fear

Rocket Men

Reliving the glory of America's giant leap for mankind

Outgrowing Tom

Bugged by MySpace's clutter and limitations, some musicians turn to smaller, artist-friendly alternatives

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

Is Arthur Anderson Accountable?

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

Sex and the Single Sperm

FAU's wild Darwinians are at it again. And this time, they want to measure your nutsack.

In Cord Blood

Turning the miracle of birth into the banking of cold, hard cash.

Sallah Sounds Off, Sort Of

Letters for May 18–24, 2006

The $11 Billion Man

Meet the world's most castigated spammer — a South Florida man who says he's an innocent victim.

The God Fossil

Most Americans who accept evolution think God created it. These scientists think they can prove the opposite.

Capsule reviews of current area art exhibitions.

Cribs

This week’s host: the universe

Chip Off the Old Blockbuster

The King Tut show is shamelessly overpriced, but — Holy Osiris! — the art is terrific!

Starry Starry Night

Great sets. Cool lighting. The pacing's a little slow.

Letters for March 31-April 6, 2005

Monkey Biz

Pickpocketing the Public: Part 1

The "renewable energy" program you're chipping in for spews the same old pollutants

We've Got the Power

A legendary producer wants to make Fort Lauderdale a hit factory

Still Skankin'

Toasters still popping up

Spam Sandwich

South Florida's Eddy Marin went from cocaine to porn to spam

It's All Good

Dr. Jane has a chimp on her shoulder

Taking Stock of Bob Graham

The South Florida senator and presidential candidate wheels and doodles

Best Local Website

www.TheHoneyComb.com

Bones of Contention

The battle for the soul of the Graves Museum isn't over yet, and Gypsy Graves herself is back in the trenches

The Jung Ones

The Center For Jungian Studies of South Florida presents a lecture by Marita Digney

DJing For Dummies

Turn the tables with your own style

Star Search

Much Ado About Mooning