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New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:07:16 -0700

From the page: "Of our sample (300,542 users, collected in May 2009), 80% are followed by or follow at least one user. By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks' members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). This suggests that actual users (as opposed to the media at large) understand how Twitter works. "

http://www.robertpicard.net/PDFFiles/whyjournalistsdeservelowpay.pdf

Tue, 12 May 2009 09:45:50 -0700

"If journalists do not create more value and become more involved in setting the future course of their companies, compensation for their labour will progressively be constrained and reduced as their news organizations wither and die."

Opinion: Do sci-fi films get advanced tech right?

Fri, 08 May 2009 10:00:53 -0700

From the page: "With today's theatrical release of Star Trek, the starship Enterprise launches on its mission to seek out new life and new civilizations. Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future was founded on hope for humanity -- but what powers his crew's ongoing trek across the stars is incredibly advanced technology. "

Linux Defenders, Red Hat call for prior art to counter Microsoft patents | The Industry Standard

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:47:18 -0700

From the page: "There's something about patents that infuriates a certain class of software programmer. I know because I used to be one... "

t r u t h o u t | The Primacy of Healing: Politics and Combat Stress in America

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:01:16 -0700

From the page: " Members of my former unit hailing from various parts of the country have found themselves practically gagged by the pro-war culture of their own hometowns, leaving them no with way to process their pain and no way to heal."

Festival Celebrates 20th Apple II Conference | Cult of Mac

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:40:57 -0700

Apple nostalgia fans, eat your heart out!

THE BEER NUT: Affordable choices for recession-minded craft beer lovers - Waltham, MA - The Daily News Tribune

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:22:35 -0700

From the page: "Many breweries, particularly those in New England, are very affordable. Sure, they may be more expensive than a six-pack of Budweiser, but they're nowhere near as expensive as a four-pack of some Founders Brewing Company beers."

Why I love the five most hated people on the Internet | The Industry Standard

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:03:59 -0800

From the page: ""I am one of the most hated people on the Internet," read the sad, sad tweet from Scripting News blogger Dave Winer. He's even been made into a "Bastards of the Blogs" collector's card. CNET writer Rafe Needleman expanded Winer's one-liner to a list of the five most hated technology pundits on the Internet: "

Nation &World | Texas board ends teaching of evolutions "weaknesses" | Seattle Times Newspaper

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:45:48 -0800

From the page: "Under the science curriculum standards tentatively adopted by the board, biology teachers and textbooks would no longer have to cover the "strengths and weaknesses" of Charles Darwin's theory on how humans evolved."

Report: When it comes to CPU cores, more is not always better | The Industry Standard

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:41:34 -0800

From the page: "Working on key algorithms for analyzing large data sets, the researchers discovered that going from two cores to four significantly improved performance. However, going from four to eight barely improved performance, and doubling it again to 16 multicores actually dropped performance to two-core levels. "After that, a steep decline is registered as more cores are added," the announcement said. "