“In the new world of network-enabled information gathering and dissemination,” writes Tim O’Reilly in the O’Reilly Radar post Journalism Through Computer Programming, “programming is as critical a skill as writing and photography.”
Tim wants to keep recent programmers-as-journalists meme alive (see our previous posts, Newspapers Need Nerds! and Nerds and Newsrooms for more), and it’s an [...]
Maybe I should have saved the Bizarro World graphic from my article about American mobile web use being higher than European for this one instead. This Information Week article quotes Microsoft Business Group president Jeff Raikes as saying “If they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else.”
“We understand [...]
Who knew that CDs and DVDs had a scent?
Pictured to the right is one of Malaysia’s two black labradors who have been trained to detect the scent of polycarbonate, the primary material for optical media. According to the Reuters story titled Malaysia uses sniffer dogs to fight movie pirates, the dogs will be used to [...]