The group of women at Mani's on Fairfax look like any other girls in Los Angeles, Chicago or New York. Each is stylishly dressed as they chatter across the table at the outdoor café, a Hollywood industry hot spot known as much for its high profile customers as its signature...

I don't have the time to track down what exactly Motrin did or said following its ill-fated effort to be part of the social media "in" crowd Sunday night, but from Twitter and FriendFeed, I got the gist.

For those of you who may not hear about it,...

The little civil right that could. Passed with such excitement and hope in that now famous clip of Gavin Newsom, embattled in the polls, rallied for what seemed months on end. Do you know that people spent more money and time to fight for your life, 8, than to provide...

It's been one of the most memorable presidential races I believe history will remember. There was a female candidate who had a chance at truly winning, an African-American man who may very well nail it, another caught having an affair (complete with a potential baby mama) and a beauty pageant...

It's a really big day for a few people who are dear to my heart. They are Erin Runnion and my friend Jen, of The Joyful Child organization, and the some two dozen friends I have who were raped or sexually assaulted by adults as children. It's because today's...

Imagine if broadcast television and radio audiences had to almost blindly seek out shows and stations upon turning on their devices. Rather than finding things in a neat, orderly fashion - with plenty of guides to help them - they instead had to haphazardly locate it themselves. Think about how...

You definitely don't have to convince me that there is value in the women's market. First, I'm one of them. I know how fiercely loyal I can be to things, how passionate I can get when I'm into something, and how good I am at balancing everything so that I...

I've always had a crush on the internet. Ever since I first laid eyes on its complex, complicated character and unique ability to do all things at once, it was love. No question. Its capacity, abilities, and the fact that it's not committed to any one device or type of...

There's something that needs to be made blatantly clear regarding the internet: One million unique visitors that spend less than one minute on a website and do not return is not really "traffic."

I hear so many companies (and you know who you are) that throw out these lofty,...

I can only imagine what somebody like my mother must be thinking, or the generations of women before her. I think about the women of the 1980s, who braved discrimination and sexual harassment (and all that hideous corporate attire) to claw the path that not only allows me to speak...

Sigh. We people make the internet so complicated sometimes. So much more than it needs to be.

Instead of learning and focusing on what the internet's intentions are because it's a faster guide, we focus tightly on past and current trends, and what companies are doing. Most of them...

By design, the web wants to run it all. Our conversations, our phone calls, our television shows, radio, our activity. It's a social machine, a commerce platform, a communications infrastructure, and very much the future of our world in every way.

If you think it's here by accident or just...

Confidential to media: Your idea of what women are and what we seek in leaders, role models and entertainment is about as on target these days as Microsoft's Vista operating system. So not what the customer wants, but no less, we're stuck with it.

A major entertainment company and studio...