Harry Potter

I covered the release of the last two Harry Potter books. But I think this final book’s release eclipsed the previous ones in terms of the level of worldwide attention.
Late in the day in Los Angeles, a couple of hours after midnight in London, J.K. Rowling’s publisher released video of the author reading the [...]

NYC Steam Blast

In about an hour, there were dozens of eyewitness photos
The story of the steam explosion in midtown New York City broke at about 3:30pm or so Pacific time yesterday. In about an hour, there were dozens of eyewitness photos of the event on the Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr. It was an amazing example of [...]