Perhaps taking inspiration from the Obama White House’s popular Flickr feed the intensely private and paparazzi beleaguered British Royal Family has decided to open one of their own.

It’s the little things – the jokes, wisecracks, the candid photos of fist-bumps and hugs and families and friends—that demonstrate a level of authenticity from this White House and show us, above all, their human side.

A big day for Brooklyn’s own Boxee: in addition to revealing more details about the previously announced Boxee Box, the company’s existing software transitioned into a public beta. Therefore, we should probably answer this question: the f*ck is Boxee?

Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ,’ saying “It was a decade in which nothing good happened.” Paul and I smoke insanely different tobacco. As an entrepreneur that has managed a hedge fund now for 11 plus years through bubbles and crashes, I almost take offense.

Pres. Barack Obama met with VP Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others last night for a final meeting on Afghanistan strategy before his big decision on troop deployment coming next Tuesday.

How do we know? Well if you follow the White House Flickr stream closely, you would have known about it late last night. Welcome to the new media presidency.

I don’t envy those who have to redesign the website for a museum – balancing institutional structure and needs with the requirement that it reflect the appropriate aesthetic. Moreover, the process of transitioning a sensibility to the web in itself requires decisions about what the organization represents – a staid, classical collection would justifiably be [...]

I was maybe 10 when my father handed me a bible, a tome that encapsulated the fundamental tenets of our religion. It was called The Yankee Hater’s Handbook. A masterpiece of framing, it armed me with any number of responses to claims of the greatness of the team, the excellence of Mssrs. DiMaggio and Maris, [...]

Last night, the official White House Flickr feed released the official portrait of the First Family as photographed by the illustrious Annie Leibovitz. Vanity Fair has more on the Leibovitz, the magazine’s most notable and consistent photographer, and her past work with the Obamas.

Eight years ago Philip Bump was living in California and woke up to the already-burning Twin Towers – a moment that would have seemed dream-like had it not been instantaneously jarring.

Like a growing number of others in a time obsessively concerned with the “digital divide”, he went to his desktop computer to get more information. Unlike many others, though, he took screen grabs of the sites as he visited them.

This photo is a solved mystery; a compact set of clues and information revealing the incidental way in which it came to be. Looking closely at it reveals the big picture — a trolley headed through New York’s Midtown West (note the ’59th St. & 7th Ave.’ destination sign) sometime in the early 20th century. [...]