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Welcome to “The Diana Chronicles” blog
Tina Brown
From my Salon Authors page, I'll share the thoughts and impressions that have arisen since publication.
Google will keep your search for 18 months
Farhad Manjoo
The search engine's new data retention policy is notable for being unique: Other companies keep your search terms forever.
Dark chocolate goes green
Meera Subramanian
The tiny, eco-friendly, politically correct Grenada Chocolate Co. is winning awards, but can it survive in a Hershey's world?
Why women stay with abusers
Carol Lloyd
A new book argues abusers employ the same type of "coercive control" used on kidnap victims and slaves.
One billion down, 5 and a half to go
Andrew Leonard
Worldwide computer use is set to double in less than a decade, predicts a market research firm. Does that mean more competition, or more affluence?
Cheers and jeers
Salon Staff
A McCartney profile sparks an online spat, praise for Spoon, free Queens of the Stone Age and more.
Talking to the publisher who stole Google’s laptops
Farhad Manjoo
A British book exec argues that scanning books to build a search engine is the same thing as stealing computers.
Flickr is blocked in China
Farhad Manjoo
The Web photo-sharing site says that it hasn't determined why its image servers aren't accessible to users in China.
Friday game: A cat with a bow and arrow
Farhad Manjoo
The first game in a new Machinist tradition features a cat, archery, and golf. Clear the rest of the day.
The great sprinkler storm of Greenbelt 2007
Andrew Leonard
No time for nuance, in the midst of connection and history and headlong descents
Milk money
Carol Lloyd
How one American mom's desire to donate breast milk to African orphans, with a little help from Oprah, stirred up a milk bank mess.
The Great Iowa Straw Poll Collapse
Michael Scherer
Giuliani and McCain pull out, leaving Romney in the lurch.
Was Plame covert? Conservative commentators weigh in
Alex Koppelman
For years, many on the right have denied that former CIA officer Valerie Plame was covert when she was outed -- we check in to see if their position has changed.
Did Facebook give Obama a secret advantage?
Farhad Manjoo
The Obama campaign released a new Facebook tool quickly after the site upgraded its system. Could that be because one of Facebook's founders now works for him?
A quiet week on the blog
Joan Walsh
But a big week for Salon: We add Berkeley Breathed's "Opus," launch Farhad Manjoo's "Machinist" and accept our first Webby award since 2002.
Welcome to the Greenbelt
Andrew Leonard
Sprawl to the left, a wondrous foggy ocean to the right. The challenge is posed
Apple sets an iPhone date
Farhad Manjoo
One measure of the hype surrounding the iPhone: It qualifies as news that we now know its official release date.
Ron Paul is blowing up real good
Michael Scherer
The rambunctious GOP candidate wants to drag the U.S. out of Iraq, can the war on drugs, and overturn the Patriot Act. No wonder Republican power brokers want to boot him off the stage.
How is an AK-47 like a QWERTY keyboard?
Andrew Leonard
An economist looks at the market for the world's most popular assault rifle.
Google is watching you (but so is everyone else)
Farhad Manjoo
Does Google's new project to take street-level pictures of major cities signal the end of anonymity in public life?
King Kaufman’s Sports Daily
Salon Staff
LeBron goes off for 48. Yeah, that's the smart basketball play. Cavs take 3-2 lead. Plus: Steve Kerr, G.M.
Al-Qaida does it, too
Glenn Greenwald
Bush followers wonder why it is news that the U.S. uses torture, but not news that al-Qaida does.
Words in a time of war
Mark Danner
President Bush has delivered some of the most rhetorically unstable statements of this era -- creating a world where power determines reality and words follow meekly behind.
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