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It was almost exactly a year ago that Diaspora started raising money on Kickstarter. A few weeks later, they had raised $200,000 from nearly 6,500 backers. Why so much excitement? Because Diaspora was aiming to be a Facebook alternative. That hasn’t exactly worked out. At least not yet. But now another startup is about to...

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A new survey determines that China is the most attractive country for renewable energy installations based on the size of its national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures, and suitability for individual technologies. In a resource-constrained world, any country with the ability to build out a clean energy infrastructure is going to have an advantage. While...

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Lunch on Air Force One, Midair Between Washington, DC, and Little Rock, Arkansas, January 2001 / Rek-O-Kut “Rondine” Turntable (circa 1958), San Francisco, California, September 2001 Todd Eberle for the win. (via the New Yorker)...