Technology

My post Siren Servers: Why Are We OK With Giving Away Our Data? did not get a single comment. It got two likes on Facebook and no retweets. But it’s been the post that’s generated the most emails from people of any post I’ve written…

Tomorrow, many websites you depend on each day will go dark to protest the abomination that is SOPA and PIPA, two incredibly bad laws to restrict internet freedom currently proceeding through Congress. 7000 sites including Wikipedia, Wordpress, Reddit and others will go…

I think one of the most interesting stories of the 2010s will be whether my generation puts an end to “gotcha journalism” or makes the problem even worse than it is today.

I started the decade as the class of 2000, about to finish up 8th grade. I was 14 years old and remember going to y2k party at a friends house, wondering if the lights were going to shut off because of y2k. I thought 24 was really old and couldn’t imagine being that old. It seemed so far away…

I just came across one of my favorite articles again today. It’s a Newsweek feature from almost 15 years ago about whether the Internet would actually catch on or not. The article, The Internet? Bah! Hype alert: Why cyberspace isn’t, and will never be, nirvana, attempts…

I’ve never written a post solely telling readers to read someone else’s work, but Paul Graham’s newest essay called “What Startups are Really Like” is so good I’ll break my rule. Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, a company that funds startups and gives…

Marcus Fitzgerald, the younger brother of NFL star WR Larry Fitzgerald apologized for writing disparaging remarks about QB Kurt Warner on his Twitter account. LB Nick Barnett, LB Robert Henson and C Kevin Love have their own Twitter snafus. Two Wisconsin Deputy…