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How MapQuest, a company innovative enough to kill road atlases in one fell swoop, was turned into an also-ran by a bad merger affected by an even worse one.

The year 2025 is the time for a site redesign. So, I’m thinking about what matters and what might be meaningless.

A few months ago, Casey Newton of Platformer ran a piece called "The phony comforts of AI skepticism," framing those who would criticize generative AI as "having fun," damning them as "hyper-fixated on the things [AI] can't do." I am not going to focus too hard on this blog, in

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Tremuloides is a data store that stores a tree structure in a backing database.

If you're gonna spew code, spew it into this set of controls

A free service streams old radio programs from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Honestly, it's wonderful.

Smart CIOs should consider how they need to redefine their infrastructure for the third era of networking.

Over the past 25 or so years, I’ve argued that Google has built a massive database of intentions – the aggregate result of every search ever entered, every page of results ever tendered…

(Hat tip to the late Bill Strauss and The Capitol Steps' Lirty Dies.) A few moons ago I was thinking of ways to take my Palm OS Fossil Wr...

More than 400 mio. scientific documents from more than 11.000 content providers. BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic web resources.

Constraints act not as limitations but as catalysts for creativity. Examples from architecture, design, and art reveal the paradoxical relationship between boundaries and innovation.

For the final seven decades of the last millennium, most people in the developed world scheduled their evenings by answering a simple question: What’s on? For the first two of those decades, …

The “infinite creative” AI ad world is almost here.

Konrad Zuse was a pioneer in the creation of computing technology, a man whose destiny seemed to obstruct progress but couldn't prevent him from creating the first high-level programming language, one of the first computers, and the first book on digital physics.

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand…

Just as slow food is good for digestion, and thus the body, slow tech is good for the soul. Today, most of my life is digital and connected. It is not a surprise that I find joy in the time-slowing…

How I organize dotfFiles

How to cloud game and is it worth it

Apple is not doomed, but for the first time in a long time its long-term fortunes are cloudy; the time to make change is now.

Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.

I've stopped using social media apps as much and have started using RSS again. I'm wasting less time scrolling past stuff I don't care about and more time reading things I enjoy. Try it.

As generative AI reaches a fever pitch of investment, product releases, and hype, most of us have ignored a profound flaw as we march relentlessly toward The Next Big Thing. Our most dominant AI pr…

I’m going to try to write something difficult. I don’t know if I’m going to pull it off, but that’s kind of the point. This is how writers improve: We tackle something we&#8…

A thorough review of trials, tribulations, and tests to bridge the gap from publishing online to federated social networking.