Entries from January 2009

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Creative Destruction in the Newspaper Industry

I saw two things today that somehow connected in my mind. The first was an advert for scholarships for computer programmers to Northwestern’s journalism school (link): Are you a skilled programmer or Web developer? Are you interested in applying your talents to the challenge of creating a better-informed society? Do you want to learn how [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

My Favorite Posts of 2008

As is my tradition, I’m including my favorite posts of 2008 here. These are the posts that I like the best, they are not necessarily the most popular. Thanks for continuing to read my nonsense and ramblings, and here is to more in 2009! Why Live Mesh will fail 64 bits, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft. [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Happy new year, here is to a better one

I realized today that I haven’t posted anything here in quite a while. Maybe it was a normal ebb in the blogging stream, but there is more to it than that. Those that are parents are well aware of the ability of an a child to pull your head out of the echo chamber of [...]