Link by Link: Delaying News in the Era of the Internet
WHEN the NBC News host Tim Russert died on June 13, NBC tried to hold back the news from going public for more than an hour to notify his family vacationing in Italy and presumably to prepare for what...
Return of the '70s Weirdos
That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seat...
A Peak Inside Google's Gmail Usability Lab
Nika Smith wrote a post on the Google blog today showing the evolution of Google chat before it launched in early 2006. Google does extensive testing of new products using employees as guinea pigs (s...
The iPhone's shocking cost of international downloads
Using the Apple mobile to watch TV overseas could cost more than your break — The thousands of consumers planning to snap up a 3G iPhone when they go on sale next month could be hit with bills of th...
Three Little Tips for Capturing Info Bits Quickly
I consume a lot of information - all of it, digitally. In fact, I recently completed the transition a 100% media green state. I continue to use Gmail as a nerve center - my primary capture system. ...
Minimalism
Normal people remember episode 110 of South Park as the one that introduced Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo. I remember it as the one where the South Park students performed a non-denominational holiday...
Less Well Known Musicians Embracing ‘Pay What You Want’
from the small-musicians,-big-musicians- alike dept — It still amuses me how often when we talk about specific music business models, defenders of the old system rush in to explain why any particula...
Dell pushes back desktop XP cutoff date to June 26
Sure, you'll be able to pay out the nose for a Vista machine with a XP Professional “downgrade” soon enough, but Dell just pushed back its cutoff for straight-up XP machines. They'll be selling selec...