Ezra Butler has a look at the complex world of intellectual property, suggesting a way forward for patents via the new marketplace businesses of web 2.0. More »

Ezra Butler is unimpressed by a website that claims to make sense of Terms of Service agreements. More »

Ezra Butler offers fourteen formulae that guarantee success in your new role at Mashable. More »

Ezra Butler reports on the changes technology has made to medicine and the current state of medical informatics. More »

Ezra Butler reflects on online guest posts and the state of ethical standards. More »

'Sunrise, Sunset' is one of the most beautiful songs from the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Ezra Butler considers this relevant to the launch of Brewster and the shuttering of Hashable. More »

Ezra Butler reflects on the Orbitz furore. More »

Are technology and social media reproducing the language of religion? It's not as simple as that, writes Ezra Butler. More »

In the wake of several high-profile online appeals recently, Ezra Butler asks whether the new ‘viral hit’ model of charitable giving is a good thing. More »

Ezra Butler thinks that innovation in healthcare technology is best left to the professionals. More »

Rather than criticising Eduardo Saverin, tech blogger Farhad Manjoo should stick to what he knows about. More »

Sean Parker is an anachronism, says Ezra Butler, who explains why Silicon Valley has a vested interest in maintaining the romantic cliché of the socially awkward geek. More »

Ezra Butler finds it absurd that lawmakers and regulators are trying to regulate discourse in the public square. More »

The redacted transcript of a dinner conversation between two entrepreneurs at Kitchen24 in West Hollywood, California. The conversation takes place in a neutral North American accent. More »

In this experimental essay, Ezra Butler offers a critique of Megan Garber's recent column in The Atlantic about the TED conference, drawing on Talmudic scholarship and a wide-ranging survey of Garber's past writing. More »

Ezra Butler wonders if and when that Mashable CNN sale might actually happen. More »

For the benefit of those who were not able to attend Al Gore's interview of Sean Parker at SXSW today, Ezra Butler shares the complete transcript of their on-stage conversation. More »

Ezra Butler wonders whether the technology industry could do a better job with its awards shows. How seriously are the Crunchies and the TechFellow awards really taken? And why does the blogosphere cover certain awards but not others? More »

Ezra Butler wonders whether allowing a vacuous smut merchant to dominate Gawker is smart long-term thinking, offering an anatomy of Brian Moylan's recent hate campaign against a hotel chain. Does Moylan's toxic brand of polemical blogging indicate where the site is headed? More »

It seems as though every young person with a laptop and an idea is encouraged to set up a business these days. But there are dire consequences for those who don't make it, and for the economy at large, writes Ezra Butler. More »