Apparently the world won't end in 2012

"Bad Astronomer" Philip Plait explains to Helen A.S. Popkin why rumors of the end of the world have been exaggerated, and why he feels...

Fake company, real robots, perform at SXSW

Touching on all three pillars of SXSW – music, film and interactive – the Japanese "art unit" Maywa Denki took to the stage on Monday to...

Baratunde Thurston creates his own mass media

In an interview excerpt, comedian and author Baratunde Thurston talks about what it means to have a window into the different groups that...

Daily Dot shows off old tech: ink & paper

In an anachronistic joke, The Daily Dot, a media news site, released a print edition at this year's SXSW. Befitting an old-media...