It's like Shazam — for your face! Today's most fun new Glitch app is Record Player, which lets you upload a photo, then uses Google Cloud's Vision API to recognize the image and play it on Sp...
It's more than just "teach kids to code" I’m skeptical about “teach the kids to code!” as a panacea for all of society’s ills. Yet today, I’m at the White House to participate in a summit on Computer...
The Blue Collar Coder Much of the conversation about the shortage of technology talent in the United States focuses on how we can encourage more young people to go to college to bec...
Startup U For a few months, those of us who care passionately about the New York City tech community have been debating the City’s Applied Sciences NYC plan, which wil...
This is how we should talk to kids Children’s stories should clearly communicate their messages. Unambiguous, no?...
A Last Chance to Donate to Music Education The Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge that I wrote about a few weeks ago is almost over, and that means you only have a few days to help support the Notes fo...
Choosing to Help Kids I’ve been a big fan of Donors Choose for some time. It’s a charity my readers may well have heard of, which helps students in public schools by letting regul...
Collecting Samples Do you want links? Because I’ll give you some damn links, I’m not afraid of you! I’m not afraid of NOBODY! Reyhan Harmanci on the third wave of academic s...
The John Adams Syllabus Every four to six months, Stewart Butterfield updates his website, whether the Internet is ready or not. This time, Sylloge ruminates on John Adams’ thoughts...
Zolt Levay: The Coolest Job in the World Well, technically, Zoltan Levay has the coolest job out of this world. Mr. Levay is the Imaging Resource Lead at the Space Telescope Science Institute ‘s O...
Me? In a Classroom? Those who know me well know that I never really loved being in a classroom while I was in school; The whole experience, combined with my own lack of discipline...
Think about the children! Thanks to Matt for pointing out some wildly irresponsible journalism . I’m always amazed that editors go with these stories (and write these kinds of headline...
Dean on Understanding Language From Dean’s World , Understanding Language: “No it is not stupid, it is not ungrammatical, it is not backwards. It is perfectly valid language, and by ref...
Google Leverages Its Trust David says that Google’s angle on snapping up library content is to prevent banner farmers from scanning it all in and wrapping AdSense around it. That may...
World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day . It seems that Link and Think isn’t active this year, but the blog community has a long history of observing the day. Do take...
MIT Institute of Technology A sign that I roll with a dorky crew: I was quite pleased to get a decent laugh out of Disco Deejay Cameron "Ladies Love Cool Blogdex" Marlow last...
On the way to an On the way to an interview today, a group of young girls across from me on the subway were talking about this school bomb threat . The remarkable thing about...
Just another reason Dan Bricklin's Just another reason Dan Bricklin ‘s a great role model for the tech industry, his ability to take valuable lessons from unlikely places. Case in point, his cu...
Interesting article on how there Interesting article on how there aren’t yet any educational standards for becoming an Information Architect ....
