Rough Drafts

The premise of Kindred is that Dana, an African-American woman living in the late 1970s, is suddenly transported back in […]

Best application for MTurk I’ve seen yet: Someone asked people to “draw a sheep facing left.” Compensation per sheep: $0.02.

Don’t even get me started on Technorati. The endless waiting while their servers churn along. The unpredictable outages. The bizarre

You’d think the iPod Shuffle would work just like any other iPod. But there are some inexplicable differences. For instance,

A friend asked if I could name a few San Francisco-based bloggers. It was harder than I expected, though there

I’m spending way too much time listening to MP3s from New York radio station WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Where

Escape from Chinatown, uploaded by fueledbycoffee. There’s a certain mad intensity to riding a bicycle in downtown SF–a bit like

I’ve started a new job as editorial director of PCMagCast, Ziff-Davis’s online events channel for consumers and small to medium-sized

Stopped by the Maker Faire yesterday at the San Mateo Fairgrounds–right in our neighborhood–and checked out some of the amazing

Fon founder Martin Varsavsky wants to create a Wi-Fi network with a million hotspots. (By contrast, iPass–currently the largest network–has