When I was six years old, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. I don’t remember much about it; this period of my childhood was suffused with the great memes of the space age, and memories of black-and-white images of Neil Armstrong on the moon blur with furtive late-night (for a [...]
Back in early 2005, I was working as a blogger for Engadget, and, in a brainstorming discussion with some of the other bloggers, I raised the idea of a software blog. We’d cover new releases, betas, warez, the whole scene. The idea was quickly shot down; there wasn’t a big enough audience, and besides, [...]
Like many people, I’ve shifted more and more of my computing activities to "the cloud," using services like Flickr, Zoho Writer and Gmail as regular tools, not merely adjuncts to desktop applications. And I’m not alone; entire businesses are being built on the idea that desktop apps are dinosaurs, and the future [...]
When NPR recently announced it was dropping The Bryant Park Project after less than a year on the air, it marked the second time in recent months that a youth-targeted public radio program was cancelled. Fair Game, a PRI evening show, was shelved at the end of May, also after just a few months. The [...]
One of the first things I did with my iPod touch when I got it last year was jailbreak it. And from that point on, I avoided upgrading the firmware, so that I could keep my precious illicit applications intact. Until now. Last Friday, I upgraded to 2.0, and I haven’t looked back since. While [...]
I know we’ll never review this one in Consumer Reports, but as far as I’m concerned, it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
I hosted a small conference (more of a conclave, actually, since it was a fairly small, invitation-only group) for bloggers at Consumer Reports HQ a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been too modest to post about it here (message to self: modesty and blogging are not a good combination!). Fortunately, one of the attendees, [...]