Tom Foremski defends his opinion that bloggers, and not Bono, Bill and Melinda, should have gotten Time's recent Person of the Year cover. Om Malik realizes that GigaOm's content is being ripped-off, and wonders what he can do about it -- we see this kind of crap all the time, and hope that there's an especially hot place in the afterlife for the perpetrators. Eric Rice gives a video camera to a five year old for Christmas, and the kid is videoblogging in minutes, it's that easy. more ›

We admit, sometimes we get a little slacky when it gets close to a holiday, especially one as heady as Indigenous Peoples' Day. (That's why, later this week, you can look forward to us re-running our 1973 liveblogging of ABC's Nixon Family Thanksgiving Extravaganza.) And apparantly we're not the only ones: when we were reading the letters to the editor of The Examiner yesterday, we sensed an aura of deja vu around a letter from David Heller, the prez of a Geary Street merchants' association. What is it about his letter -- which argues against dedicated bus lines on Geary, despite the SPUR report's suggestion that they would actually be a huge improvement -- that's so strangely familiar, like the haunting melody of pain and love, drifting on a supple summer breeze? Oh, yeah, it's copied word-for-word from a letter he wrote back in September. Does it count as plagiarism if you're stealing material from yourself? more ›

Today's victim of the SFist interview has only been in our fair city for a couple of weeks, but that doesn'r mean we're going to take it easy on him! His new book, , is a easily-digestible and very, very funny history of booze and drinking, and it comes out tomorrow! more ›

Tribe.net hits 10,000 local recommendations. more ›