A couple of recent entries in the poplar-science-watch category:

• "E-mail is broken: Four Internet pioneers discuss the sorry state of online communication today. The consensus: It's a real mess" by Katharine Mieszkowski is a discussion about why email has gone from the Net's killer app to a pain in the app.
  
• "Net guru peers into web's future" is an interview with Tim Berners-Lee from the BBC. This is a rather "gosh-wow" style interview, with some pretty silly questions. But still, it is very interesting to get up-to-date with the web pioneer. From the ResourceShelf.