Favorite tech things: 3 products this reviewer actually chose to buy Makers of tech products are often told to “eat their own dog food” – actually use what they tout in… Read More
GeekWire’s Gift Guide: 12 geeky gift ideas from Seattle-area designers and startups Looking for great gifts for the geeks on your list? Why not make it local? Continuing an annual tradition, we’re pleased… Read More
Where do you work? Why multiple ‘offices’ are the next productivity hack I’m finding it harder and harder to answer a simple question. Where do you work? There are two traditional choices:… Read More
It’s time to kill the password — before it kills us It’s time to shoot the password. And multiple screens are the trigger. I had this epiphany when wrestling with one… Read More
Farewell, stack rank: Why this change is so big for Microsoft [Editor’s Note: Christopher Budd worked at Microsoft for more than 10 years, specializing in security response and communications.] Yesterday every… Read More
‘Destroy all Macintosh products,’ and other ways to map the Seattle area There’s what a neighborhood is called, and then there’s what comes to mind when you think of it. A San… Read More
Twitter’s bittersweet IPO: Our little social media’s all grown up Twitter will become a public company Thursday when millions of shares in the social media company go up for sale… Read More
When technology – and time – overtake research For the past three decades, I have been a psychological test subject. Not in a creepy NSA-and-tin-foil-hat kind of way,… Read More
Why Washington state’s Obamacare site doesn’t suck My husband and I were browsing wahealthplanfinder.org this week, to see if any of these new options were better than… Read More
Got mentors? 8 ways to build career-boosting relationships In our public professional lives, we like to play a little game. We pretend we know exactly what we’re doing.… Read More
The geek/nerd divide: This time, it’s personal A geek is not a nerd. And vice versa. Unless, of course, they are. When I was a kid, I… Read More
Commentary: Do we have an emoticon problem? :-/ So. Where do you come down on emoticons? They’re everywhere, these tiny typed expressions, and locally, reviews are mixed: “I… Read More
Lego love: The greatest engagement photos ever This week my friends Marika Burkhart and Justin Jensen posted some of the best engagement pictures I’ve ever seen. And… Read More
Sex, drugs and Facebook: Seattle Children’s social media research team takes on teen health Dr. Megan Moreno once met a teen who went to bed every night with her smartphone tucked under her pillow… Read More
CD, noun: A flat, round thing that turns colors in the light I was going to save the old CDs from the destructive clutches of my toddler. Then I thought, why? They’d… Read More
The Web: a generation old, a link unexpected On this twentieth anniversary of the first popular web browser, consider how its potential was viewed just one year after… Read More
Mobile pic critique: Here’s what photographer Chase Jarvis thinks about your best smartphone shots When we asked you to submit mobile photos for a live critique by renowned photographer Chase Jarvis, hundreds of you… Read More
Awkward blend: Job interviews and coffee shops Everything looked just as I expected inside the Uptown Espresso in Belltown. Then I noticed the dress. Deep red, form… Read More
When companies know too much: UW researcher explains digital market manipulation Earlier this month a certain daily deals site sent an email to Gmail users on its list. Gmail had rolled… Read More
Bad move: The cold, blunt justice of negative reviews One day last week, my Mom had had it. “I’m going to tear them apart,” she told me over the… Read More
10 great ways to take awful mobile pictures of people Anyone can take a mobile photo of you. That doesn’t mean everyone should. Every week on social streams I see… Read More
Writing science fiction in a Write-a-thon of geeky solidarity Geeks and science fiction. You can almost track the rise in influence of the former by the inexorable pop-culture spread… Read More
What is innovation, anyway? Four ways to make an impact Like any word bound to human ambition, “innovation” is a claim as much as it’s a description. And it’s no… Read More
Saving a ThinkPad from drink: How to recover from a tech travel disaster There are those moments in life that occur, seemingly, in slow motion. That first teenage kiss. A bobbled piece of… Read More
The weight of words: Why I hope bookstores stick around I was taking video of my baby’s small, assisted zig-zag steps between the shelves at Ravenna’s Third Place Books when… Read More
A night without power We were making our dinner last Tuesday when the kitchen light went out. A second later, I realized the new… Read More
5 steps to prepare your geek child for college As caps and gowns are returned for deposits while freshmen are readying to be deposited this fall in the college… Read More
Secrecy and trust: Why the NSA leaks feel like ‘The X-Files’ As I try to sort out how I feel about the secret programs that have allowed the National Security Agency… Read More
My VloggerFair vlog: How everyday online stars are changing the face of fandom VloggerFair, the come-one, come-all festival of vlogs and vlogging, kicked off its inaugural run at the enormous Terminal 5 building… Read More
Do you live this moment, or capture it? Facing an everyday digital dilemma We took our 10-month-old son to Disneyland on Monday. When my husband watched video I’d taken of the day, I… Read More
