Year: 2008

12 Good Gadgets for Hard Times

Dylan / 12/29/2008

An economic crisis changes the way you think about gadgets. Is a $400 game console bundle really what you want […]

Dylan / 12/18/2008

I’m quoted in Folio magazine’s annual survey of editors and publishers, making an uncharacteristically wild-eyed prediction about how great things

Dylan / 12/9/2008

Forty years ago Tuesday, a Silicon Valley engineer named Douglas Engelbart made a presentation so influential that computer scientists now

Dylan / 12/9/2008

Link: Gallery: 40 Years of Mighty Mice Link broken? Try the Wayback Machine.

Dylan / 12/9/2008

1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it

Dylan / 11/26/2008

1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th

Dylan / 11/20/2008

As the publishing industry collapses, it’s becoming clear that both journalists and public relations people need to change the way

Dylan / 11/13/2008

If anyone doubted the power and importance of online social networks, the election of Barack Obama should have put that

Dylan / 10/31/2008

Imagine that news stories and blog posts could be tied to a geographic area. If lots of news publishers and

Dylan / 10/20/2008

While I was on vacation, a feature story I wrote earlier in the month got published on Wired. It’s about