There's a new Web browser being released today. The RockMelt browser is being financed by Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm. Andreessen, you may recall, co-founded Netscape. Here's today's New York Times story: "Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn." [includeme...
After a deep and restful night's sleep, I can usually count on NPR's Morning Edition for a jolt of blood-curdling reality to start my day. Here's the NPR story on censorship that grabbed me today: Seeing The Internet As An 'Information...
For several weeks now, Amy and I have devoted our Tuesday nights to a friendly little music club in Santa Monica, California. From the comfort of our Wisconsin home, we join with a couple hundred others via live chat and video streaming to enjoy Peter Himmelman's...
We're sitting here this morning watching No Country for Old Men. (We dutifully try to keep our Netflix viewing no more than a year or so behind the Oscars.) We're about 46 minutes in. Javier Bardem has just located the Regal Motel. This movie is so great that we don't...
I was standing in my nephew's bedroom a couple of months back, waiting with my sister-in-law for a YouTube video to load before unpausing it. "Is it this slow for you?" she asked me. I believe they're using DSL from the phone company, but...
There's a new Web browser being released today. The RockMelt browser is being financed by Marc Andreessen's venture capital firm. Andreessen, you may recall, co-founded Netscape. Here's today's New York Times story: "Web Browsing Takes a Social Turn." [includeme...
After a deep and restful night's sleep, I can usually count on NPR's Morning Edition for a jolt of blood-curdling reality to start my day. Here's the NPR story on censorship that grabbed me today: Seeing The Internet As An 'Information...
For several weeks now, Amy and I have devoted our Tuesday nights to a friendly little music club in Santa Monica, California. From the comfort of our Wisconsin home, we join with a couple hundred others via live chat and video streaming to enjoy Peter Himmelman's...
We're sitting here this morning watching No Country for Old Men. (We dutifully try to keep our Netflix viewing no more than a year or so behind the Oscars.) We're about 46 minutes in. Javier Bardem has just located the Regal Motel. This movie is so great that we don't...
I was standing in my nephew's bedroom a couple of months back, waiting with my sister-in-law for a YouTube video to load before unpausing it. "Is it this slow for you?" she asked me. I believe they're using DSL from the phone company, but...
