Technology

Andrea Kuszewski in Esquire's "10 Ways to Have Better Sex, According to Science"

If you just looked at today's cool link, discussing why editors at Old Media don't seem to get the value of links (but their salespeople litter online magazines with paid ones) I give you this great example: Esquire magazine interviews our own An ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2010 - 9:23am

Skype and Google

It’s been almost a year since I wrote about how I like Skype, and I noted some legal problems between the Skype founders and eBay, which bought Skype in 2005. Shortly after I wrote that, eBay completed the sale of the majority share of Skype to a private i ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 1 2010 - 12:23pm

PLoS sets out to restore science blogging credibility

The Public Library of Science has responded to various new networks cropping up in the wake of the Scienceblogs Pepsigate scandal by recruiting keen writers and putting their brand behind them. Advantage for those wounded by the Scienceblogs ethical quicks ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2010 - 12:43pm

Usage Issues With OAuth

OAuth — a proposed Open Authentication standard — fills a significant gap in cross-application authentication. It’s common in a world of myriad web-based services for one service you use to want to access another service you use, in order to make things b ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 3 2010 - 11:28am

Bad Agronomy Podcast

I love technology. Some people like it because it allows us to do incredibly complicated things that otherwise would not have been possible. I like it because it allows us to do incredibly normal things with almost no effort whatsoever. ...

Blog Post - Christopher Brown - Sep 3 2010 - 7:47am

The Web: Q’est-ce Que C’est?

Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff have written in Wired magazine that, in their words, “the web is dead.” The web, as opposed to the Internet. Michael Wolff was recently on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, our local public radio station, talking about the ar ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 7 2010 - 5:51pm

Dark Data- Increasing Transparency And Access To Raw Research

The sharing, preservation and reuse of data has become an increasingly important element of modern scientific research, but even though granting agencies like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) naturally embrace d ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2010 - 4:03am

Digg V4: "Chill out," says Kevin Rose, but shows VP of engineering the door

Digg founder Kevin Rose cheerfully responds to the mountains of criticism around the newly launched Digg 4. His overall theme is that users need to deal with it. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2010 - 6:09pm

"Friendly" User Interfaces

It’s long been a peeve of mine that some computer programs are programmed to try to sound friendly, cheerful, or just colloquial. It seems out of place to me, forced, overly artificial. I don’t mean that I want all the output from computers to sound like ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 11 2010 - 1:53am

Very early user experience with a Kindle

I decided to try out one of the new Kindle e-readers. Only, I’m not planning to use it for the purpose that most buyers do — purchasing and reading books. I want to use it to read academic papers, articles, and IETF documents, which I will put on the devi ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Sep 30 2010 - 12:17am