Why Twitter Gets More Airtime than it Deserves
Twitter offers more value to the writers of tech news than the readers.
Popular Misconceptions: The Internet Killed Newspapers.
The Internet did not kill the newspapers. It snatched away the crutch they were using to prop themselves up after they botched their response to TV.
Legacy Locker
Todd brings up this subject often. What happens to all our electronic lives when we leave this earth? We can save things to CD, on portable hard drives, lock them away in vaults and safety deposit boxes. But there’s so…
TMI
In 2006 alone, the world produced 161 exabytes of digital data, the equivalent of three million times the information contained in all the books ever written. This tidbit is from the Columbia Journalism Review. Are we all suffering from TMI,…
PDF for Everyone
There was a time, back in the technological dark ages, just a scant two or three years ago, that PDF’s could only be created by Adobe Professional. It was so fancy, so rare, and so expensive that it didn’t even…
What Hubble Brings Us or, Patience is a Virtue
The Hubble space telescope, now active for nearly 20 years, continues to send back images that amaze and astound scientists. And it’s not only the newest pictures being sent that are providing all of the “ooh” moments these days. Scientists…
Defining “Broadband” and “Underserved”
$7.2 billion in stimulus money has been earmarked by Congress for spending on broadband service and underserved areas. Thus is born a conundrum that is becoming virtually unsolvable. What exactly does “broadband” mean? According to ATT, it’s anything not dialup.…