Hundreds of gay couples enjoy ‘dream come true’ in Calif.
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, Andrea Stone and William M. Welch, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Four years ago, Lynda Brocchini and Julie R...

eHarmony: Heart and soul
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
PASADENA, Calif. — You've no doubt seen Neil Clark Warren on TV commercials: He's the affable,...

Backyard Chickens in the Mission
USA Today

Fresh eggs, happy hens. No farm needed.
Story and photographs by Janet Kornblum for USA TODAY
IT’S 7:15 A.M. ON A WEDN...

25 adopted boys find a home in one house
USA TODAY

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Ann Belles was only 5 in 1968 when her mother took her to see Oliv...

No cellphone? No BlackBerry? No e-mail? No way? (It’s true.)
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Joan Brady can't even count the number of computers that friends have foisted ...

Etheridge rediscovers love
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
HIDDEN HILLS, Calif. — It's the night of Feb. 13. Melissa Etheridge walks onstage at the Gramm...

Who Killed Audrie Pott?
Daily Dot

By Janet Kornblum on April 18, 2013
I remember standing on my San Francisco balcony that beautiful September night, ...

Meet the child molester next door
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — When Jake Goldenflame makes his annual pilgrimage to register at police headqu...

The Bookshare Bulletin
Benetech

This past year has been marked by tremendous growth. We have new publishing partners, new university partners, new books — and p...

Hitchhiker, grab your towel and don’t panic!
USA Today

A towel ... is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. ... You can wrap it around you for warmt...

Lost a dot-com job? Chill out at ‘camp’
USA Today

Bottom line is, there are only so many hours a day you can spend looking for work. Ask Andrew Brenner, 32, and Michael Feldman, 33...

Internet currency: You Flooz, you may lose
USA Today

Watch out. Your Beenz will soon amount to less than a hill of beans and your Flooz may fare no better. If you think you're safe...

After attack, the Net reassures and informs
USA Today

As phone systems faltered in the aftermath of Tuesday's terrorist attack, the nation clung to the Net, reaching out to friends and...

Wacky Tourist Guy popping up all over
USA Today

Who is the Tourist Guy? That has been a burning question ever since a doctored photo showing an unsuspecting tourist standing on a...

An e-mail sends a writer back to Afghanistan
USA Today

If you don't think one e-mail can change your life, you haven't met Tamim Ansary. The 53-year-old San Franciscan is headed to his ...

‘Jeopardy!’ ace knows no limits
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
MURRAY, Utah — When people meet Ken Jennings and realize the fair-haired, boyish-looking 30-ye...

A best friend on the airwaves
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SEATTLE — Hours after she returns home from work and her kids are tucked in bed, Delilah pads ...

For Steinem, these are the glory years
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — When she was 40, Gloria Steinem decided to come clean......

Reagan daughter’s new leaf
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — There was a time when Patti Davis couldn't get far enough away from her...

At 92, he’s just acting his age
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
WEST HOLLYWOOD — Some actors are discovered sipping soda at Schwab's drugstore. Johnny Holiday...

AOL’s coming of age
CNET

In October 1996, America Online (AOL), the leading online service, restructured and launched flat-rate pricing, another chapter in...

King of spam meets its maker
CNET

Sanford Wallace is laughing today. The man is in his element, phoning reporters from his cellular phone about that cease-and-desi...

AOL accused of privacy violation
CNET

America Online (AOL) may have violated its own policy and perhaps the law when it allegedly revealed the identity of a member to a...

Web ties to mass suicide probed
CNET

By Janet Kornblum
Staff Writer, CNET News
The last time Heather Chronert spoke to her Web designers at Higher Source,...

Build the brand, success will follow
CNET

By Janet Kornblum
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
NEW YORK--Robert Pittman is way too charming to come out and say it aloud...

AOL’s week from hell
CNET

AOL's week from hell In the last week, the largest online service went through more than most companies experience in a lifetime....

Settlement in first antispam law
CNET

Stan Smith of Salem, Oregon, had never heard of junk email, let alone "spam" or any laws banning it. He just wanted to spread the ...

AMD’s foundry arm starts up, takes on TSMC
Reuters

By Janet Kornblum SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (Reuters) - Globalfoundries, the $4.3 billion semiconductor manufacturer spun off from...

Get on the bus: Workers enjoy Bauer’s eco-friendly fleet
San Francisco Business Times

Gary Bauer figures that each biodiesel bus that his company uses to shuttle Bay Area employees to and from work saves about 1,350 ...

Lemnis brightens the lighting industry
San Francisco Business Times

Forget about compact fluorescent light bulbs — the energy-efficient light source that is replacing the old incandescent ones. Th...

Just how green is your city?
USA Today

If you want to know how green your city is, just look at your trash area. Is there one lonely can? Or are there multiple, colorful...

W Always has room for green
San Francisco Business Times

Michael Pace has worked hard to make the W Hotel as environmentally efficient as possible. But if guests don’t think of the W as...

Eco-luxe products: low impact, high price
USA Today

Forget about Birkenstocks and drawstring pants. Forget about earth tones only. Coca-Cola 111 Navy Chairs are made from 111 recy...

Eco-friendly weddings keep sprouting up
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Their wedding invitations will be printed on recycled paper. The food they serve will be locally...

City CarShare Drives Change
San Francisco Business Times

Maia Dzenis readily admits there are moments when it would be easier to own a car. But then she thinks about the ownership costs ...

The ‘Guilty Green’ (gasp!) don’t always recycle
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
They drive SUVs, throw perfectly recyclable bottles and cans in the trash, clean their bathrooms...

Patient turns harsh light on clinics reusing syringes
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
When Evelyn McKnight was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, she knew she was facing the fight...

Injuries from falls are growing concern for seniors
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
When Bob Cailleteau's daughter got married last year, he didn't even think of renting a tuxedo. ...

Melorheostosis: A rare and painful bone disease
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Griffin O'Neal remembers the day his mother walked in on him while he was playing with his plast...

Online medical records offer convenience, may limit privacy
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
When Mary Adams had a mammogram in October, she didn't have to wait for a call from her doctor â...

Assisted-living facility gets technology assist
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sometimes late at night, Rayna Jacobson needs to know her dad is OK. He lives...

Reporter undergoes replacement surgery
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
I'd tried it all: Celebrex, ibuprofen, Darvocet, Percocet, Cortisone, Synvisc, acupuncture, medi...

For online singles, Web romance can be a bit too public
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Karina Longworth lives in New York City, where it shouldn't be that hard to avoid an ex-lover. ...

Online privacy? For young people, that’s old-school
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Reared on reality TV, paparazzi, cellphone cameras and the insatiable maw of the World Wide Web,...

Prying eyes are everywhere
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Robert Gortarez is no private eye. But with an $80 piece of software intended to track what his...

Teens wear their hearts on their blog
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Millions of teens who grew up with a mouse in one hand and a remote control in the other now pou...

Meet my 5,000 new best pals
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Brittnie Sarnes has 5,000 MySpace friends. Actually, make that 5,036. At last count, anyhow. Abo...

Gumshoe in cyberspace
CNET

poll A lot has been written about private information on the Internet. But is it really that easy to find out everything about any...

“This is what democracy looks like,”
The Daily Dot

By Janet Kornblum on November 16, 2011 The Web is full of images of Occupy protesters getting arrested. But today, one s...

Boing Boing blogger: I have breast cancer
The Daily Dot

By Janet Kornblum on December 02, 2011 Once news we used to share only with loved ones and close friends, breast cancer,...

Cyberbullying grows bigger and meaner with photos, video
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Ricky Alatorre doesn't know which classmate surreptitiously hoisted a cellphone camera and snapp...

Exclusive interview: the man who would save N-control
The Daily Dot

By Janet Kornblum on December 29, 2011 Moisés Chiullan is hoping that equal parts straight talk and Twitter humor will sa...

Strange and true Facebook intimacies
The Daily Dot

By Janet Kornblum on December 07, 2012 It was late at night, and I was scrolling through Facebook on my iPhone. Like mill...

For Kirk Douglas and wife, the playground’s the thing
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — When the gates open and Kirk Douglas — yes, the Academy Award-winning actor, n...

Fire victims ‘ran for our lives’
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
MIDPINES, Calif. — When a wall of flames shot up a canyon and forced Steve and Linda Hakanson ...

Sons, daughters and caregivers
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Every weekday at 6:45 a.m., Roberta Moore quietly pads into the next bedroom a...

Bullying devastates lives — until victims find ways to heal
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Kathy Shedd had red hair. Meg Rafferty was shy. And Jodee Blanco was just different. Those w...

Surf’s up, and dangerous Mavericks is on
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — Under pale blue skies, facing an expanse of frigid Pacific waters, per...

Social, work lives collide on networking websites
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Just after her honeymoon last March, Wadooah Wali took the de rigueur next step these days: She ...

Child prostitution survivor aims to change lives
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
FRESNO — On a chilly winter evening in the Central Valley, the agricultural heart of Californi...

Teens to parents: It’s our Facebook
USA Today

By Janet Kornblum, USA TODAY
Tess Lippincott has seen the writing on the wall. She deleted it. That's because the writin...

A reason to go online
CNET

I can't pin down the moment I knew that the Starr report hitting the Net was more than a really big story about really important f...