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With 2010 closing up shop, it’s time for an obligatory list of favorite posts from this past year. Based on a non-scientific review of this site’s web traffic, a few of our more popular can be found after the jump:

After burning off my holiday calories shoveling out of Snowmageddon 2010, I was ready to settle down with a good book and a flagon of mulled cider. Perhaps I was still looking for more Sisyphean exercises, so instead of Harry … Continue reading →

I bricked my Yixin. It didn’t really take that much in the end: merely taping over the on-off button in an attempt to lock a micro SD into a defective slot. Ultimately, I de-springed a not very resilient  power switch, … Continue reading →

The FCC voted 3-2 (along the usual party lines) to approve the Open Internet Order  or as the media refers to it, NET NEUTRALITY.  I suppose a set of rules that has brought condemnation from both sides of the argument … Continue reading →

While waiting for the text of the FCC’s Open Internet Order to show up on their web site, I decided it was the right time to take a quick at look Google’s fascinating Ngram viewer. So what has Google wrought … Continue reading →

scott_waterman/Flickr Communities waiting to hear if they’ve been selected for Google’s high-speed Internet access contest will have to wait a little longer. In February Google said it had plans to  deploy a 1 Gig per second, fiber-to-the-home network in several … Continue reading →

I’m afraid my brief infatuation with Yixin may be nearing an end. I was having trouble with freebie voice recorder apps from the Android Market. Since many require an external chip to store the voice files, I knew it was time … Continue reading →

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And there is no other place I’d rather be than New York City in December— chestnuts roasting, falafels cooking, and Food52 giving a demo at New York Tech Meetup. Of course, this … Continue reading →

…the grunt work of key clicking and comment writing is being done by us, the ambassadors from Brandistan who are paid with logos and other game mechanic trinkets.

I’ve been writing lately on rating and suggestion services and their underlying data prediction technologies, which are fascinating. What about those users (like me) who don’t completely trust the algorithmically generated suggestions that are proffered? They can instead lose themselves … Continue reading →