Unwarranted optimism about the publishing industry.
I’m quoted in Folio magazine’s annual survey of editors and publishers, making an uncharacteristically wild-eyed prediction about how great things […]
Field Notes
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Silicon Valley Conference Aims to Raise Planetary IQ
Forty years ago Tuesday, a Silicon Valley engineer named Douglas Engelbart made a presentation so influential that computer scientists now
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Gallery: 40 Years of Mighty Mice
Link: Gallery: 40 Years of Mighty Mice Link broken? Try the Wayback Machine.
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Dec. 9, 1968: The Mother of All Demos
1968: Computer scientist Douglas Engelbart kicks off the personal computer revolution with a product demonstration that is so amazing it
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Nov. 26, 1894: Cybernetics Pioneer Norbert Wiener Born
1894: Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th
Rough Drafts
Journalism and PR in the new media age.
As the publishing industry collapses, it’s becoming clear that both journalists and public relations people need to change the way
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Social networking comes of age.
If anyone doubted the power and importance of online social networks, the election of Barack Obama should have put that
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Geotagging the news.
Imagine that news stories and blog posts could be tied to a geographic area. If lots of news publishers and
Rough Drafts
New chips transform photography, video.
While I was on vacation, a feature story I wrote earlier in the month got published on Wired. It’s about
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New Chips Poised to Revolutionize Photography, Film
For the first time, professional-grade single-lens reflex cameras are gaining the ability to record high-definition video. That capability, photographers say,