Technology
I For One Welcome Our New Freaky Robot Overlords
There’s just something about Boston Dynamics’s Big Dog that just weirds me out. Maybe it is the strange alien bug sound it makes, or the freakishly organic motion of this legs. Either way its both nightmarish and amazing.
(About 30 seconds into the video - watch how it moves as it manages to stay [...]
Partly Cloudy: Amazon’s S3 Service Goes Down
We’ve been hearing for some time that the future of our data storage is “in the cloud.” Many of us already use cloud storage for email (GMail), files (XDrive) and backup (Mozy) among many others. But what happens when you can no longer reach your data?
Several companies found out today when Amazon.com’s S3 [...]
Google Knol as an Instant Author Platform
Late yesterday, Google made an announcement about an upcoming product called knol, a free platform for creating authoritative articles on any subject. Knol will have a variety of social features and will let readers comment, rank, review and suggest edits.
Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a [...]
Medicine 2.0 - Back to Housecalls
I usually write a lot about technology’s role in shaping the publishing world, but of course technology is shaping all industries. A Twitter friend pointed me to an HISTalk article about Jay Parkinson, M.D. and how he is using technology to change the way he practices medicine - and I don’t mean fancy diagnostic machines [...]
Steve Rubel Says We’re Drunk
Edelman’s Steve Rubel admits he’s been guilty of Shiny Object Syndrome, and is worried he is getting that old bubble feeling again.
This is a sad time for the web. It’s as almost somber as the time just before the last bubble burst in 2000. I was working in PR with dot-com startups at the [...]
