Archive for the ‘news’ Category
Monday, June 30th, 2008
A lot has been written lately on how intelligent search will solve all kinds of problems, most recently in The End of Theory, Chris Anderson of "long tail" fame confuses the abundance of low hanging fruit that "big search" and biotechnologies provide with the ability to really understand and extract ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Reuven of Enomaly speculates on whether there will be an analogue of Moore's law for cloud computing, looking to coin "Ruv's law." I would like to see more detail on what it would postulate, presumably a linear relationship between growth in cloud computation and time. I think we would also ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Semiconductor's Magnetic Movie is a stunning, if questionably accurate visualization of magnetic fields and their interactions. Worth a watch:
Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Finally got www.goalr.net into the Heroku private beta which will allow the private domain and e-mail functionality that our "Goaltender" application relies upon to both gather our weekly goals and followup on them.
Just posted to Bitcurrent on the future of cloud computing.
Business has been moderately insane (in a good way) ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
Like most heavy cellphone users I have a love hate relationship with both the device and the wireless service. Love because it gives me freedom from a physical location and thus is an essential business enabler for entrepreneurs. Hate because it restricts my freedom in many ways that ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Apologies to RSS subscribers who will no doubt be affected by my blog consolidation. I'm pulling in all of the posts from www.infreemation.net and rebranding this blog Infreemation. Why the consolidation? Most of what I write in both blogs is about information: technology, policy, analysis, visualization. I haven't been making ...
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Friday, January 19th, 2007
The indispensable New Scientist reports that
the distribution of dark matter has been mapped in 3D for the first time, revealing how the mysterious substance has evolved over the lifetime of the universe. The results confirm that dark matter provided the scaffolding that allowed ordinary matter to clump together to ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
Stéphane Dion, former Canadian environment minister, was elected leader of the Liberal Party at a dramatic convention in Montreal. A darkhorse candidate, Mr. Dion does not come off as a typical politician rather he retains much of the style and demeanor of the university professor he once was.
For a Liberal ...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2006
Obstacles to getting real keep dropping: 37Signals now offers a free online version of their book Getting Real. Cool.
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
One of my favorite Family Guy segments from the early days of the series is strangely hard to find on the 'net, perhaps due to its somewhat prescient nature. It was only added to YouTube a week ago let's see how long it will last there!
According to Wikipedia:
This episode aired ...
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Thursday, March 16th, 2006
New Scientist reports on DNA Origami:
A map of the Americas measuring just a few hundred nanometres across has been created out of meticulously folded strands of DNA, using a new technique for manipulating molecules dubbed "DNA origami".
According to the map's creator, Paul Rothemund at Caltech in Pasadena, US, DNA origami ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Coffee enriches my life in so many ways: socially, gustatorily, as a surrogate for other vices, but most of all by fighting the somnolescence induced by a historical avoidance of any kind of regular sleeping pattern. Not being a morning person, my business probably would cease to function if ...
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