Yearly Archives: 2010

The Undesigned Web

Posted on 11/2/2010 by Dylan Tweney

Design reigned supreme in the 20th century, when it was an integral part of the way artists, publishers, governments and political parties communicated to the first mass audiences. Message and presentation were inextricably intertwined, with the latter lending power, impact … Continue reading →

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Grayson

Posted on 10/25/2010 by Dylan Tweney

Grayson is a book by long-distance swimmer Lynne Cox about her encounter with a baby whale and her adventure guiding it back to sea. I came to read it because I’ve been taking my nine-year-old daughter on occasional early-morning swims. … Continue reading →

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A Chip Is Born: Inside a State-of-the-Art Clean Room

Posted on 10/19/2010 by Dylan Tweney

If you wish to compose an e-mail, index a database of web pages, stream a kitten video in 720p or render an explosion at 60 frames per second, you must first build a computer. And to build a computer, you … Continue reading →

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Journalism in the Age of Online Collaboration

Posted on 10/19/2010 by Dylan Tweney

Savvy journalists have adapted (or have been forced to adapt) to a new, more collaborative publishing model online. Here are my notes from a keynote presentation I delivered on this topic at the OCLC Collaboration Forum, held at the Smithsonian, … Continue reading →

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October 7, 1954: IBM Gets Transistorized | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

Posted on 10/7/2010 by Dylan Tweney

1954: IBM builds the first calculating machine to use solid-state transistors instead of vacuum tubes. IBM already had a business selling calculating machines, and it was humming along quite nicely. The IBM 604 Electronic Calculating Punch, which IBM introduced in … Continue reading →

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.haiku column No. 1 – Haiku Society of America

Posted on 10/6/2010 by Dylan Tweney

Thanks to the internet, haiku is making a return to the kind of collaborative, interactive spirit out of which it originally emerged almost four centuries ago. As the editor of tinywords, I’ve seen this kind of evolution emerge spontaneously on … Continue reading →

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Frank Bidart: What to make, how to make, what does making mean in our lives? What do we make, why do make, when are we making? How important is making? What is the life of a maker, what is the … Continue reading →

Posted on 9/28/2010 by Dylan Tweney | Comments Off

Apple’s Newest Watch Is … Wait, What? It’s an iPod Nano?

Posted on 9/24/2010 by Dylan Tweney

What time is it? Who cares! Apple’s newest timepiece puts music, photos and step-counting front-and-center, and lets the minutes fall where they may. Sure, you can check the time, but that’s hardly the point with this attractive piece of wrist … Continue reading →

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Apple Takes Aim at Cable With Tiny New Apple TV

Posted on 9/1/2010 by Dylan Tweney

SAN FRANCISCO — In a sign that its television “hobby” has turned into serious business, Apple announced an aggressively-priced new set-top box that takes aim at the heart of the cable TV and DVD rental industries. The new Apple TV, … Continue reading →

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Why Does ‘Twitter API’ Keep Asking for My Password?

Posted on 8/31/2010 by Dylan Tweney

Sites around the web are getting splashed with a mysterious dialog Tuesday, thanks to a change in the way Twitter handles user authentication. Some Wired.com website visitors see the dialog box shown here when visiting any of this site’s blogs. … Continue reading →

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