Facebook makes it official: You have no say Late on Wednesday, just as Americans were taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday, Facebook announced its intention to change the feedback process for...
Temple of Ego and Links Oh, hello there! I didn’t see you come in. Well, as long as you’re here, let’s look at some links around the web that I’ve found to be related to what we’ve be...
The Decade-Long Campaign to Lock Down Your Computer This month’s Wired magazine includes a milestone I’m incredibly excited about: My first published print column! You can read Safe In Its Shell , my explorat...
Fat Pages Today, in a Wired interview about Instapaper , Marco Arment offered up: “People love information,” Arment said. “Right now in our society, we have an ob...
Wired on Google's Microsoft Moment If you liked my post on Google’s Microsoft Moment last week, you may well enjoy Fred Vogelstein’s detailed piece in this month’s Wired. I think no small...
Back on the Road Again Blogging’s been light because this part of March is the heart of the conference season for me, usually stretching for a few exhausting weeks on the road. My ne...
PowerPoint Pecha Kucha We know that PowerPoint can be a tool of productivity, and hopefully everyone’s embraced the idea that constraints are conducive to creativity. The next natura...
The Story Is What You're Reading Here are the things to look at on the Internet today. India’s President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, asks Yahoo Answers, “ What should we do to free our planet fr...
Revisiting the Wikipedia Conversation There’s been an interesting wave of news since my anti-Wikipedia roundup recently, most notably Jimmy Wales’ comments about the evolution of the community...
Antisocial Behavior I’ve never played an MMORPG, but I do understand how important they are in the lives of the people who invest in them… they’re both entertainment and community...
Dear Wired News/News.com I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today’s announcement with excitement...
Extending the Long Tail Meanwhile, Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired, (no relation) has just launched The Long Tail , the blog that follows his seminal article on the subjec...
Waxy for President! Okay, not President, but Editor in Chief. Wired News (the online arm, not the print magazine) is looking to hire a new EiC . I think they should hire Andy Ba...
Chasing the Long Tail On beyond the power law, Chris Anderson’s got a fantastic article in Wired about the importance of all the parts of culture that don’t fit in the 1% or 10% s...
Tired: Scanning your email for Tired: Scanning your email for viruses. Wired: Scanning your postal mail for bacteria. Oh, the joys of working for a periodical in New York City these da...
Doesn't make me a brain Doesn’t make me a brain surgeon by any stretch, but I did call this one before the game last year: Dot-Coms Punt in Super Bowl...
Hee hee hee... This shows Hee hee hee… This shows that getting a computer to work does take a rocket scientist…....
So I think I'm going So I think I’m going to join the throngs running down to their local Circuit City and snapping up the i-Opener , since it’s a little PC you can buy for $100...