Beauty is Truth (or Complicated Formulas)
Here I am trying to find beauty in spreadsheets, and Nikki Graziano discovers hidden formulas in nature. Take a look at Nikki’s mashup of nature …
Anonymity = The Internet
You can’t have the Internet without anonymity. In fact, privacy protection is designed into the lowest levels of the plumbing, which supports communication without revealing …
Strogatz is Blogging at The Times
Cornell mathematician Steve Strogatz is writing posts for The New York Times’ Opinionator blog. He’s better known to some through the Watts-Strogatz small world model …
VoIP and iGadgets
Remember the iPhone? It’s like a smaller version of the iPad. Anyway, the tech press is all over the news that Apple unlocked VoIP calling …
The written word seems so horribly low tech. It hasn’t changed much for a few millennia, at least since the ancient Greeks invented symbols for …
Spreadsheet Art
Of course, we can’t all have the design sensibilities of a Steve Jobs. But I believe there’s untapped creative potential in each of us. Thankfully …
In most civilian fields, job satisfaction may not be a life-or-death matter, but a relatively uninterested, insecure work force is unlikely to bring about a …
iPad Thoughts
from David Pogue. It sounds like he got it right: it’s not an iPhone but more a “vessel”– I guess that means a portable platform– …
NYC Datamine Mashable New York State Open Senate Vox Populi Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Green Google Public Data Explorer Ars Technica Nick Carr’s Rough Type
The First Tweets
As a growing tadpole in the 1970s, I remember discovering the mischievous humor of the NY Times capsule movie reviews. Buried in the TV listings, …
Did that search engine really know what you want, or are you playing along, lowering your standardards to make it seem clever?
My Tablet Phone Beats Your Business Phone
In November, I tuned into some of the keynote speeches at VoiceCon San Francisco. These VoiceCon events are where “enterprise communications’ vendors gather to talk …
The Intelligent Network Rides Again
There’s been a long-standing competition between centralization and distribution, two important but opposing ways of designing computer and communications systems. With cloud computing (hosted …
Cool Voice
I’m excited about Google Voice as the next guy. A few limitations of the “first fully automated email transcription” service have already been revealed and …
Tales of the Sausage Factory (Harold Feld) Telecom Ramblings Telecom Webtorials Cyber Telecom GigaOM Brough Turner Bruce MacVarish DSL Reports Ars Technica Only Gizmos (gadget …
Twitter Hits the Sweet Spot
From despair.com–who else!– comes the ultimate Venn diagram of social media pathologies.