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The notoriously reclusive Alan Moore talks with us about Harvey Pekar’s influence, quantum physics, Frank Miller’s rant, why he usually avoids the Internet, and his unprecedented videoconference to raise Kickstarter cash for a Pekar memorial statue. Alan Moore authored what many consider the seminal graphic novel of the 20th century, Watchmen.

More adventures in gamifying higher education. One challenge facing journalism educators in this age of instant-access Internet is getting students to leave the warm glow of their computer screens to conduct primary source research

Steve Jobs created innovative products that change the world of technology. Imagine the other industries he could have disrupted

How Terra Nova executive producer Brannon Braga realized Steven Spielberg’s vision, managed the most expensive TV budget ever, and survived all those friggin’ dinosaurs without losing his mind. Being in charge of an epic, Steven Spielberg-backed, eco-themed, sci-fi time-travel tale with digital dinosaurs and a reported $15 million pilot is pressure enough. Now add a revolving door of writers, mounting executive producers, debate over pilot length, rain-deluged sets in an Australian rainforest, insufficient footage, visual effects delays, and a circling vulture press and it’s amazing Terra Nova executive producer Brannon Braga wasn’t carried off in a straightjacket.

Are companies overwhelming consumers? We continue our examination of the business book The Paradox of Choice with an interview of author Barry Schwartz.

We continue our examination of the business book What Got You Here, Won't Get You There with an interview of author Marshall Goldsmith .

Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.

With a quarter of a million followers between them, the men and women behind a few of the better faux accounts show us how to create and maintain successful, character-driven Twitter feeds. All kinds of quippy characters populate my Twitter feed. There are the "newsies" intent on dishing out the latest info nuggets, the "media-obsessives" grappling with the state of our industry, those snark-laced counter-punchers I'll call "quipsters," and the "newbies" who, with only a handful of followers, are just beginning to find their way.

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We can't all flow like L.L. Cool J on "I Need Love," but with the help of Jesse Kramer, we can be just as lyrically romantic

The recent rise in food prices is just the first warning sign that the way we produce food may not be working so well. There are some important changes that need to be made to continue to feed a growing population. Your local grocery store may be stocked with foods from around the world, but make no mistake: Our food system is starting to fail

How Arianna Huffington, Larry Page, Richard Branson, and others, keep on top of it all.

What do you do when you have a bad "break up" with an employee? Here are a few things to think about when it happens, because it will. Over the course of 10 years I've had lovely people come to my e-mail marketing software company VerticalResponse, and sadly they've 'broken up with us' for various reasons

When we visited his office on the Warner Bros. lot for this year's 100 Most Creative People in Business package , Conan O'Brien opened up about how he works.

E-books realize their unbound potential faster than expected as pixels push past paper in Amazon sales. Oh, and, hey, look! Kindles for sale! Since April the first, for every 100 print-and-paper books Amazon has sold, it's also sold 105 e-books, according to a fresh Amazon announcement . Kindle e-readers arrived, along with a small but fast-growing digital bookstore, in November 2007--by July 2010, Amazon notes, Kindle book sales had surpassed hardcover book sales, and then six months later beat the paperback books sales rate