While we can leave the future of foreskin up to city government (thanks San Francisco and Santa Monica), it appears that what our children can and cannot do with their mobile devices while in class will be determined not on a case-by-case basis or by school principals but in Sacramento -- by the California State Legislature. more ›

This blog talks a lot about riding the busses and subways and being Green, but some of us drive and aren't ashamed. Further, Los Angeles loves its car culture and it's fine time that we take pride in who we REALLY are. As we drive our cars proudly, there comes the times when we have to park them. Last week I was shocked and amused when the writer of the busblog clued LAist readers... more ›

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Love it or hate it, Twitter does not appear to be just a passing fad as some suggest. You may find such nano-blogging tools to be annoying vehicles for unsolicited TMI, overly mundane ramblings, or instances reminiscent of grade-school crushes and "cyber-stalking." But how you view / receive / ignore your tweets is left up to you. You'd be surprised how much you can say in 140 words. But once you start receiving Twitter... more ›

Remaining a hermit is going to be a lot harder as Mozilla has announced that it will be creating a social networking feature inside browsers such as Firefox. The Coop product will allow Firefox users to “subscribe” to friends in the browser, bringing those friends into a sidebar. Those friends can share content and web pages with you (receive content from you, and send content to you). Adding a friend will mean getting access... more ›

Starting today, South by Southwest is transitioning over from the Internet and Film festivals to the Music festival, but before we dive in to the 1,500 bands that will begin rocking Austin, we still have a lot of Interactive interviews to share with you. more ›

LAist is representing at the SXSW. Yesterday was the first day of the Interactive and Film Festivals and yours truly (far left) was a panelist of the "How To Rawk at SXSW" discussion. Providing tips to about 150 attendees in our session, we suggested that people go to that one extra panel, party, or show. We suggested that people sign up for Twitter so they can be contacted via SMS the minute someone wants... more ›

We work at home. We work on Macs. We don't like Outlook. We are Google kids. We use Gmail. We use Google RSS Reader. We use Google Groups, Google Maps and Google SMS. We also use Google Calendar and here's five of many reasons why: 1. If you're like us, you plan events big or small. And sometimes planning that party on a holiday we forgot existed on that day screws things up. With... more ›

Attention transit nerds! Are you jealous of other big cities that employ GPS technologies to bring you the time of the next arriving bus on your cell phone or wireless PDA? We might not be that far away. In collaboration with LADOT, Metro is testing out their own version on RapidBus.Net with a select number of lines including the Orange Line. Here is what we experienced and our recommendations: 1. It let us know... more ›

Last night's game was so entertaining, we're almost not upset that the Red & Blue lost. 130-123?! Is this 2006 or 1986? The Steve Nash/Sam Cassell battle is going to be a great one and the flashes of brilliance that Shaun Livingston shows on the court has us extremely hopeful for the future. Here's what's being talked about in Clipper Nation: more ›