Seen the movie? Not sure what happened at the end? Or, you are, but the person who saw it with you disagrees? Here's the lowdown, in just a little more than a minute...

The short answer: not enough people love them. The longer answer: network advertisers care only about numbers of people watching, not about how much the viewers love the shows. But there's good news: more and more TV is available on the Internet.

The pros and the cons of this magnificent experiment in encyclopedia making, in which everyone in the world - including you, if you like - can be a writer and editor.

Copyright is complicated because it attempts to protect intellectual property - information - which has an amazing characteristic: you can take it from its original place, but it's still there...

Copyright is a relatively recent development in human history - it started as a privilege that monarchs dispensed to printers ... the right to make copies...

Less a mini-scientific treatise and more an appreciation, but I do cover the difference between black, green, and white tea, and how to prepare it.

I've been on The O'Reilly Factor a few times in the past few years. People often ask me how I manage to get a word in edgewise. Here I give some advice, along with an example from my January 2004 appearance on The Factor, in which O'Reilly and I went head

I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I offer a four-minute tutorial on how to sell a novel. The salient points ar

I'm author of five novels, including The Silk Code, which won the Locus Award for Best First Science Fiction Novel of 1999, and my current novel, The Plot to Save Socrates. Here I offer a three-minute tutorial on how to write a novel. The salient points