Is way too hard. But results in interesting t9 errors, like clogging instead of blogging.
I don’t really like Facebook, but I have to use it because that’s where my friends are. (Well, my fiancée is there, and she makes my friends for me. So I use it. Begrudgingly.) At first what I didn’t like…
This is insane. At the time the web came into being, AOL was already offering a content-driven text and graphics medium. And Microsoft was hard at work making “Blackbird”, which was a content authoring technology for MSN that never saw…
NPR’s Planet Money (which I have been known to describe — without hyperbole — as “the best journalism on any topic in any media, in the entire existence of journalism”) published an interesting blog posting. A reporter goes to the…
I became aware of Iceland’s bankruptcy through a curious route. A local geek mailing list had a posting from a friend of one of the guys on the list. She was Icelandic, and she was really in distress — able…
This is the scariest evidence yet that this recession is not a normal one: This was brought to my attention by an excellent This American Life episode. The conclusion of Alex and Adam’s story at the top of the program…
I heard about these guys from Stack Overflow’s podcast. Really fun.
I saw this quote in an article on E-Ink: If you ever want to make a billion of anything cheaply, you print it. What an interesting observation! With such interesting far reaching consequences: Nano Solar is on the right track,…
I’ve been known to complain a bit, now and then, about my current hosts, the English. I reserve the right to continue complaining, to be sure, but I’d like to take a moment to point out two things I like…
Carl Malamud + the Government Printing Office is a match made in heaven. Please, President Obama, make it happen. This guy is one of us, one of the good guys who cares about transparency, about good government, about the freedom…