I've been listening to Arthur Phillips' new book The Song Is You on my iPod, downloaded from audible.com. It's a risky proposition for me because the book is a love story told through the metaphor of an iPod and I am scarily attached to ...
Eric Alterman is a professor of English and journalism at Brooklyn College and a professor of journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author, most recently, of Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Important Ideals.
Is Steve Jobs Obsolete?
Alan Deutschman is a Daily Beast columnist. His next book, Walk the Walk: The #1 Rule for Real Leaders, will be published in September by Portfolio. He is also the author of Change or Die, A Tale of Two Valleys, and the Second Coming of Steve Jobs. He has been a Silicon Valley correspondent for Fortune, the “Profit Motive” columnist for GQ, a senior writer at Fast Company, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and New York Magazine.
After false rumors that Apple's founder would appear at its big conference today, his biographer, Alan Deutschman, reports Jobs has already lost one title: most indispensable CEO.
Obama's Internet Misfire
Douglas Rushkoff, a professor of media studies at The New School University and producer and correspondent for the PBS Frontline Digital Nation project, is the author of numerous books, including Cyberia, ScreenAgers, Media Virus, and, most recently, Life Inc., released this month by Random House.
The president's announcement Friday of a new czar to protect our cybersecurity misses the point, says Douglas Rushkoff. We need a generation of hand-to-hand digital soldiers, not armchair generals.
Love in the Time of iPod
Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
The Song is You, Arthur Phillips's new novel, gets at the heart of deranged, ecstatic musical obsession, articulating what has been a secret between ear and heart into words.
I'm an I Listen to Everything addict. What started as a courtesy read of my neighbor's music blog has since become a need. Being a fan of late-night iTunes browsing, I tend to get sucked into every "others also bought" tangent that prese...
Actress Lake Bell is in production on an untitled Nancy Myers movie. She recently completed production on Burning Palms and A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy. Bell was last seen in Pride and Glory with Colin Farrell and Edward Norton. She has also appeared on NBC's Surface, ABC’s Boston Legal, and NBC’s Miss Match.
What Makes Apple So Erotic
Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
Steve Jobs' genius was dazzling consumers. Unfortunately, his leave of absence came at a moment when the economy is desperate for imagination-stoking products that will get out butts down to the mall.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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