Technology

The Scientific Blogging Wayback Machine- How We Looked Then

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 like now (more on that in November). Nothing on the internet ever goes ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 17 2010 - 8:05pm

Phone Review Blues

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. Sure, there are people starving in third world countries and ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2009 - 4:40pm

AT&T Can't Handle All The IPhones

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 into sensations? Who had any inkling about how successfu ...

Article - Barry Leiba - Sep 9 2009 - 12:00pm

A Geek's-eye View of Snow Leopard

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" must play by a different set of rules. Every ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Sep 9 2009 - 9:12pm

The Next Communication Technology

What major communication technology will come next?  ...

Blog Post - Eric Bock Hyde - Sep 11 2009 - 3:15am

Mendeley (And Other Free Software)

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 played around with Zotero, but I prefer something standalo ...

Blog Post - T. Ryan Gregory - Sep 11 2009 - 12:19pm

Developing Science 2.0: New Editor Features

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 / discuss new features, and talk about what Science 2. ...

Blog Post - Patrick Adair - Sep 11 2009 - 5:48pm

United States, Private Military Firms, and Technology: July 2009

Private military firms and the Department of Defense are the United States military technology complex. Here's a look at virtual modeling and simulation environment, cybersecurity, and robotics contracts between US DoD and private military firms in J ...

Blog Post - Eric Bock Hyde - Sep 14 2009 - 1:05pm

Microblogging Sustainability When The Top 5 Twitter Posts Are...

Microbloggers are having trouble being interesting, a new study says.    So they write more often, just to have something to say.  The top 5 most frequent postings on microblogging sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Mobile Facebook are “working,” “home,” “work, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2009 - 10:00pm

Wild Musical Inventions From Berlin Hackday

As much as our 'Project Calliope' satellite is a science project, it's also a music experiment.  We are, after all, flying scientific instruments on a picosatellite specifically to make music.  So it's worth pointing out another group t ...

Article - Project Calliope - Sep 21 2009 - 2:21pm