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Adam Curry is ruining radio.For me, anyway. About a month ago, I downloaded the former MTV host's podcast aggregator, iPodder, and now I'm a regular podcast demon. I've set iPodder to download Curry's The Daily Source Code every morning, and...
Use of Internet filters has increased in households with teenagers in them, but not as much as you might expect. Of course, it's still an open question how well filters work at blocking kid non-friendly stuff from a PC's screen,...
I'm back in San Francisco now after four overstimulating days at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference. One of the things that made the conference so enjoyable was the rock-star lineup of speakers, including Danny Hillis, George Dyson, Neil Gershenfeld, Cory...
We're already committed to one more degree (Celsius) of warming from the greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere, according to an article in this week's issue of Science. The article, by NCAR's Tom Wigley, stresses the importance of...
Perhaps you shouldn't be reading the TR blog. Or at least, not solely this blog. Why not? As James Surowiecki--New Yorker writer, Technology Review contributor, and author of the recent book The Wisdom of Crowds--pointed out today at the O'Reilly...
The notion that crowds possess a collective intelligence not available to individuals is hot these days, thanks in part to books like James Surowiecki's The Wisdom of Crowds. At the O'Reilly E-Tech conference in San Diego this morning, O'Reilly's Rael...
I wanted to put a good word in for Alan Lightman's new book A Sense of the Mysterious. It's a collection of essays he's written over the last several years, and if you want to get a sense of his...
O'Reilly Media's Emerging Technology conference (now just called E-Tech) got into full swing this morning in San Diego. The theme of this year's gathering is "Remix," and the morning speakers described and demonstrated a passel of Web technologies that show...
Adam Shostack has written an interesting story on his Emergent Chaos website examining why the Choicepoint story refuses to die, and what the implications are for privacy and its coverage in the media. He also considers the impact of...
Bush's ill-conceived moon-Mars initiative continues to force its way through the scientific community, taking down worthwhile scientific projects as it goes.Ignoring recent scientific history that shows that robotic missions produce more bang for the buck, NASA most likely plans to...
