Technology

Hi there, I'm Patrick and I'm one of the principal developers on ScientificBlogging.com - that means if the site mysteriously crashed, I likely did it. This column is around to help introduce /…

Some time ago, I posted about my search for a new reference management program for Windows that would be the rough equivalent of Papers for Mac (which is the rough equivalent of iTunes for PDFs). I…

What major communication technology will come next?  Around the middle nineteenth century, the television was starting to get big. As its hardware became more advanced, and more affordable it…

No, that Geek is not me, it's John Siracusa exhaustively reviewing (literally - the review is 23 pages long) Mac OS X 10.6 for Ars Technica: A major operating system upgrade with "no new features"…

Some turns of events in the technology world are truly surprising. Who knew that a couple of guys starting up Google would hit it as big as they did? Who imagined that Facebook or Twitter would turn…

No matter how bad things get, there's always something trivial we can completely take out of its big picture context and blow up into something dramatic.   Mountains, molehills and all that.…

In February of 2010, Scientific Blogging, the flagship of Science 2.0, will turn 3 years old.   Yep, you all are getting old.   But by then it will have changed, even from what it looks…

A couple of years ago, I talked about some of the search terms that people have used when they’ve found my blog pages. In the comments, Donna was amazed at the information that’s available to the web…

Stanford scientists say they will reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an 'open-source' digital camera. If the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited…

Idaho National Laboratory engineer Phillip West holds a curious metallic device about as wide as a steering wheel. It looks a bit like a flat, stoic face, with two large circular holes for eyes,…