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May 4, 2008

I don't recall any photos of Marcia Brady wrapped in a bedsheet from my boyhood.

Recent columns

• Is an era ending? Media mogul sells blogs

  April 27, 2008

  It didn't rank up there with Alan Greenspan's famed caution about "irrational exuberance" a decade ago, before the dot-com bubble burst and wiped out trillions in paper wealth, but Nick Denton's warning the other day caused people to take notice.

• Going online to cut junk mail, save forests

  April 20, 2008

  Sander DeVries and his brothers were complaining about junk mail a few years ago, but unlike complaints about the weather, they did decide to do something about it.

• Olympics: made for bloggers

  April 13, 2008

  "Swifter, Higher, Stronger" was how Pierre de Coubertin described the Olympic ideal a century ago, after resurrecting the games of the ancient Greeks.

• The 10 biggest blogs are -- how's that again?

  April 6, 2008

  Name some of the biggest newspapers and magazines in the country? You probably couldn't help but get a few of them right.

• True devotion: blogging about the Orioles

  March 30, 2008

  Blogging about the Orioles isn't for the faint of heart.

• The Web can save you some pennies on gas

  March 23, 2008

  The Internet has helped consumers save money on various travel expenses: Bid down the price of a hotel room. Shop smarter for airline tickets. Make car rental companies compete more aggressively for your buck.

• The Spitzer scandal: There's life in old media yet

  March 16, 2008

  Shortly after the allegations surfaced about Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky, CNN wrote on its Web site:

• The race heats up, and the slime meter jumps

  March 2, 2008

  After whipping up the crowd for a John McCain appearance in Cincinnati last week, Ohio radio talker Bill Cunningham got a scolding from the Arizona Republican senator for smearing Sen. Barack Obama, whom he repeatedly referred to as "Barack Hussein Obama." A day earlier, a photo of Obama in a turban during a diplomatic trip to Africa somehow found its way to the Drudge Report online.

• A first field guide to the mysterious blogiverse

  February 24, 2008

  When this newspaper launched its Web site in 1997, it held a seminar at an off-site location for staffers to learn about the Internet. The Sun's first Web editor asked the class to type any subject that came to mind into the "search engine."

• Counting the crimes counting them twice

  February 17, 2008

  Long before a video of a Baltimore policeman berating a skateboarder in the Inner Harbor became a YouTube sensation, crime was one of the hottest Internet topics from the city.

• Blogs and politics; each gets messy

  February 10, 2008

  Maryland voters are gearing up for the most consequential presidential primary in decades - and so are the bloggers, who barely existed the last time there was a presidential primary here.

• Internet use is booming - in very Chinese ways

  February 3, 2008

  China will probably surpass the U.S. as the nation with the most Internet users later this spring, according to statistics recently released by the Chinese government.

• Super Bowl sparks some super advertising blogs

  January 27, 2008

  The History Channel documentary Life After People the other night concluded that 10,000 years after man becomes extinct, little beyond remains of the Great Pyramids and Mount Rushmore would indicate that human beings ever walked the earth.

• Internet services win fans for their reliability

  January 13, 2008

  If you don't count Jared the Subway dude, the two nerdiest characters in American television commercials are probably the Verizon tech and John Hodgman as the "PC" in the Apple spots.