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Bloomberg Businessweek returns to its roots 3 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
On a drizzly Saturday I open up the Bloomberg Businessweek that arrived yesterday and read the cover story: Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? I couldn't get over the sense that this company story was a th...
Is every "solved" problem an opportunity? 18 Jul 2013 | 03:20 pm
It was 15 years ago that Scott Rosenberg blogged about a new search engine called Google. (He recalled it in this blog post.) He point back then was that search was not yet a solved problem, as many t...
Love of vinyl, part 4 4 Jul 2013 | 03:37 pm
Here's a brew of desire, relief or regret that many modern music lovers may never experience. It comes when you're sitting comfortably, enjoying a record album. As the fourth or fifth song ends, you h...
Datamining discussion with Brown Political Review 30 Jun 2013 | 03:31 pm
I had a Skype chat on Friday with Ben Wofford, co-editor in chief of the Brown Political Review. This one focused more on government datamining. (The AlJazeera one earlier in the week looked at tech c...
AlJazeera: Google as Big Brother 28 Jun 2013 | 02:32 pm
Yesterday I learned about Dataium. It's a company that aggregates Web surfing data and provides it to auto dealers so that they can predict the preferences of customers, and perhaps even set the appro...
My answers about government datamining 15 Jun 2013 | 03:59 pm
An Italian journalist sent me questions the other day about the government datamining we've been learning about of late. I answered her questions. Since maybe only one of these sentences will turn up ...
Cicadas: A week in the life of a 17 year old 5 Jun 2013 | 02:13 am
The 17-year cicadas have emerged from the ground in Montclair, NJ, and they're making a racket near my house. If you're me, you pedal slowly toward the noise. You see cicada exoskeletons piling up alo...
Another perspective on Spain 4 Jun 2013 | 01:51 pm
Antonio Sanz Domingo, my biking compadre and friend of 47 years, put together a slide show of our two-wheeled romp through central Spain last month. The photo of me eating (It looks as through I'm dea...
My coming novel: Boosting human cognition 30 May 2013 | 05:26 pm
Just a few words about my novel, The Boost, which Tor Books is publishing next year. In early 2011, when I finished Final Jeopardy, I was thinking more or less obsessively about the future of cognitio...
From sunshine to rain in Spain 25 May 2013 | 03:45 pm
A couple years ago, I biked with a lifelong friend along a stretch of Spain's pilgrimmage route to Santiago de Compostela. (slideshow) The weather in Galicia, traditionally a rainy area, was pristine....
