Technology

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…

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. But VP of Engineering John Quinn is…

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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…

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)…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…