Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Face-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post
Twitter and Facebook ask users to answer the question: What are you doing right now?
Monday, October 19, 2009
When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
TIME to revisit the always compelling–and often disconcerting–debate over digital privacy.
Friday, October 16, 2009
RateMyProfessors Preps for Fall Semester
It’s early in the school year, but according to RateMyProfessors.com, students are already weighing in on the brains (and beauty) of their teachers.
The site lets college students rate their professors on such traits as easiness, helpfulness, clarity and “hotness,” and its popularity has prompted a slew of news articles quoting teachers maligned or flattered by their anonymous reviews.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Short Outbursts on Twitter? #Big Problem
Times are tough for the “tweet before you think” crowd.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Servers With Cellphone Chips? Yep, Here They Come.
The era of such a deeply philosophical data center question is upon us.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Universities Spar Over Disappearing Electronic Messages
In less than two months after a group of University of Washington computer researchers proposed a novel system for making electronic messages “disappear” after a certain period of time, a rival group of researchers based at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton, and the University of Michigan, has claimed to have undermined the scheme.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Plugged-In Age Feeds a Hunger for Electricity
With two laptop-loving children and a Jack Russell terrier hemmed in by an electric fence, Peter Troast figured his household used a lot of power. Just how much did not really hit him until the night the family turned off the overhead lights at their home in Maine and began hunting gadgets that glowed in the dark.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Our Craigslist
The cover story for the September 2009 issue of Wired takes a look at the current state of Craigslist and the challenges it faces as it continues to evolve. In a sidebar, the magazine’s amazing art director Scott Dadich invited several designers to re-imagine and redesign Craigslist itself.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Lots of Fee Ideas for Media Online
Five months ago, a group of media executives including Steven Brill seemed to have the field to itself when it said it was building a system for newspapers to charge readers for access online.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Listening to Radio on the Web? That’s So Last Year.
The next generation of radio listeners might not remember the olden days of scrolling through stations. Instead, the radio they listen to could very well be on their mobile phones.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Triple-Digit Inflation
At first it looked like an infielder’s batting average: the number 230 flashed on signs at baseball stadiums–and in TV sports coverage–this summer.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Race to Be an Early Adopter of Technologies Goes Mainstream, a Survey Finds
For decades, the adoption and use of the latest technologies was limited to a subculture: Whether called “tech enthusiasts” or “gadget geeks,” the implication was that most of the world got along fine with older, established products and services, while a smaller group pursued the most leading-edge technology.
The Bar for Success in Our Industry Is Too Low
This weekend the New York Times published a piece called Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit.
Masters of the Wikiverse
The council of elders that runs Wikipedia confirmed last week that, sometime soon, the unwashed masses will no longer be able to directly edit the profiles of famous living people.
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