Category Technology

Metablogging…

Heh. Over at Neal Pollack’s blog, guest blogger Christopher Monks is performing a David Blaine-like feat, enduring a full day of Glenn Reynolds’ posts. The really scary thing? This is Instapunditathon II, which means he did this once before…

Buying vs. Tipping redux

It happened again. Atrios posted a plea for donations to cover the cost of a new laptop (apparently, something involving a cat and a glass of wine rendered his less than healthy), and within three hours, he not only has enough donations to cover the cost of the coputer, but somebody had also bought him [...]

Argh…

On a campus like Cornell’s, you’d like to think that it would be relatively easy to get a wireless internet connection up and running. Unfortunately, the campus wireless network is a patchwork of balkanized zones, with one overarching initiative linking some of them, but which doesn’t cover any of the buildings in which the Science [...]

Fog screen…

Vie Alex Pang… I so want one.

Missed technology…

One of the things I love about my current project is reading projections of the future and corporate announcements from decades ago. Just ran across this one, from the Sept/Oct 1978 issue of The Videophile’s Newsletter: “[The] Economist Magazine, from England, reports that Phillips is working on a flat-screen TV that will project a 3-D [...]

Digital sources and ‘doing history’…

As I’m piecing together the first chapter of my dissertation (on enthusiastic hobbyists and the user communities that they formed around the VCR and other technologies in the late 1970′s/early 1980′s), I’m struck by how much easier it is to get ahold of information from certain sources than others. With a DSL line, a computer [...]

Blog-o-comic…

By Ruben Bolling, via Tom Tomorrow:

Dwindling…

No writing recently, in large part because I haven’t been online very much lately. Came to a conclusion as I was driving up to Ithaca with Jenny last Wednesday that I need to rein in my online grazing, and I’ve noticed that as I’m reading blogs less and less, I’m feeling less of an urge [...]

Compulsive Blog-reading…

Okay, this has to stop. Seriously. Every time I sit down at my computer, I find myself compulsively clicking through the list of about four dozen blogs in my “Favorites” menu (most of which I still need to add to the blogroll on the right). Moreover, when I do finally start working, I’m interrupted every [...]

20 Questions…

I just had this exchange with a computer: 19. Is it small? No. 18. Can it be painted? No. 17. Can it be washed? Yes. 16. Is it multicolored? No. 15. Can you get information by using it? No. 14. Is it heavier than a pound of butter? No. 13. Do you carry it in [...]