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| Address URL | http://www.roughtype.com/ Registered: 23-Feb-2008 |
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 Rough Ty | The cloud's Chrome lining in General | | 02-Sep-2008 | Google's release today of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet "cloud." I distinctly remember when, back in 1988, Apple Computer added MultiFinder to its Macintosh operating system, allowing my beloved Mac Plus to run more than one application at a time. That was, for u [..] Read complete article | | Rough Ty | Machine head in General | | 20-Aug-2008 | I saw that Amazon's chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, has picked up on the album-a-year meme over at his blog. It seems to me that a guy who's running a heavy-metal utility computing operation should be a serious headbanger, and Vogels, I'm relieved to say, does not disappoint. Fresh Cream, Live at Leeds, Back in Black, Raising Hell, Appetite for Destruction, Nevermind, Rage Against the Mac [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | Easy does it in General | | 12-Aug-2008 | A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: as journals begin publishing online, making it easier for re [..] Read complete article
Read 1 times | | Rough Ty | "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes in General | | 07-Aug-2008 | Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I?ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I?ve tried to round them up below. The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, ?iGod.? The essential theme of both the essay and the book ? that our technologies change [..] Read complete article
Read 2 times | | Rough Ty | Net brain syndrome in General | | 19-Jul-2008 | Discussions of my Atlantic article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, continue. Edge has been hosting a forum with comments from Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Douglas Rushkoff. This past week the Britannica Blog launched a forum with posts from Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, Matthew Battles, and Sanger. I also contributed a reply to Shirky's piece.... [..] Read complete article
Read 3 times | | Rough Ty | The cloud's not-so-silver lining in General | | 18-Jul-2008 | At Business Week, Sarah Lacy has a good article on the daunting challenges that software-as-a-service companies face as they try to build vibrant, profitable businesses. Some traditional software powerhouses, like SAP, are spending a lot to develop web versions of their applications, but they have little to show for the investments so far. Pursuing two radically different business models simultane [..] Read complete article | | Rough Ty | Albums going steady in General | | 16-Jul-2008 | Over at The Gaping Silence, Phil Edwards picks up the challenge of listing "a favorite album for every year of your life." I'm definitely game for this game, though, like Phil and for precisely the same reason, I'm going to begin the list a few years after the year I was born. There are two restrictions: only one album per year (painful!) and no repeats of artists. Here goes: 1965: The Beatles, Ru [..] Read complete article
Read 5 times | | Rough Ty | One big holiday in General | | 25-Jun-2008 | Having taken the Water Wiennies and the Jarts out of the closet, now seems like an ideal time to put Rough Type on ice for the summer. Posts will be rare for a spell.... [..] Read complete article
Read 3 times | | Rough Ty | Encryption and the law in General | | 25-Jun-2008 | The rise of cloud computing raises a lot of legal issues, and one of the thorniest involves the variations in national laws governing the storage and use of personal and other information. Controls on data threaten, for instance, to prevent certain information from being stored in data centers outside a user's home country, hence eroding some of the efficiencies promised by a global cloud. And yet [..] Read complete article
Read 4 times | | Rough Ty | On the trail of the itinerant computer in General | | 23-Jun-2008 | Back in 1993, Eric Schmidt, then the Sun kid, now the Google dad, wrote in an email to the telecosmic George Gilder: "When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." The Economist closed its recent article on cloud computing by sketching out a picture of where this technological trend is leading: In future the geography of the cloud is l [..] Read complete article
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| The cloud's Chrome lining | | Google's release today of a test version of its new open-source web browser, Chrome, marks an important moment in the ongoing shift of personal computing from the PC hard drive to the Internet "cloud." I distinctly remember when, back in 1988, Apple Computer added MultiFinder to its Macintosh operating system, allowing my beloved Mac Plus to run more than one application at a time. That was, for u [..] Read complete article |  | Published 02-Sep-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Machine head | | I saw that Amazon's chief technology officer, Werner Vogels, has picked up on the album-a-year meme over at his blog. It seems to me that a guy who's running a heavy-metal utility computing operation should be a serious headbanger, and Vogels, I'm relieved to say, does not disappoint. Fresh Cream, Live at Leeds, Back in Black, Raising Hell, Appetite for Destruction, Nevermind, Rage Against the Mac [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Aug-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Easy does it | | A recent edition of Science featured a worrying paper by University of Chicago sociologist James A. Evans titled Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship. Seeking to learn more about how research is conducted online, Evans scoured a database of 34 million articles from science journals. He discovered a paradox: as journals begin publishing online, making it easier for re [..] Read complete article | | Published 12-Aug-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| "Is Google Making Us Stupid?": sources and notes | | Since the publication of my essay Is Google Making Us Stupid? in The Atlantic, I?ve received several requests for pointers to sources and related readings. I?ve tried to round them up below. The essay builds on my book The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, particularly the final chapter, ?iGod.? The essential theme of both the essay and the book ? that our technologies change [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Net brain syndrome | | Discussions of my Atlantic article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, continue. Edge has been hosting a forum with comments from Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly, Larry Sanger, George Dyson, Jaron Lanier, and Douglas Rushkoff. This past week the Britannica Blog launched a forum with posts from Clay Shirky, Sven Birkerts, Matthew Battles, and Sanger. I also contributed a reply to Shirky's piece.... [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jul-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| The cloud's not-so-silver lining | | At Business Week, Sarah Lacy has a good article on the daunting challenges that software-as-a-service companies face as they try to build vibrant, profitable businesses. Some traditional software powerhouses, like SAP, are spending a lot to develop web versions of their applications, but they have little to show for the investments so far. Pursuing two radically different business models simultane [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Jul-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Albums going steady | | Over at The Gaping Silence, Phil Edwards picks up the challenge of listing "a favorite album for every year of your life." I'm definitely game for this game, though, like Phil and for precisely the same reason, I'm going to begin the list a few years after the year I was born. There are two restrictions: only one album per year (painful!) and no repeats of artists. Here goes: 1965: The Beatles, Ru [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Jul-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| One big holiday | | Having taken the Water Wiennies and the Jarts out of the closet, now seems like an ideal time to put Rough Type on ice for the summer. Posts will be rare for a spell.... [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jun-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Encryption and the law | | The rise of cloud computing raises a lot of legal issues, and one of the thorniest involves the variations in national laws governing the storage and use of personal and other information. Controls on data threaten, for instance, to prevent certain information from being stored in data centers outside a user's home country, hence eroding some of the efficiencies promised by a global cloud. And yet [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jun-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| On the trail of the itinerant computer | | Back in 1993, Eric Schmidt, then the Sun kid, now the Google dad, wrote in an email to the telecosmic George Gilder: "When the network becomes as fast as the processor, the computer hollows out and spreads across the network." The Economist closed its recent article on cloud computing by sketching out a picture of where this technological trend is leading: In future the geography of the cloud is l [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Jun-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Wikipedia's new slogan | | Wikipedia has long promoted itself as "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." But Jimmy Wales offers a new, circumscribed slogan in a column in today's Observer. Wikipedia is now, according to Wales, "the online encyclopedia in which any reasonable person can join us in writing and editing entries on any encyclopedic topic." The old slogan was the language of the bazaar. The new one is the l [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Jun-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| A pointer | | Alan Taylor's photojournalism blog, The Big Picture, has been receiving some well-deserved praise. Check it out.... [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jun-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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