Nuking Facebook: 30 days later, the fallout A month ago I did the unthinkable. I quit Facebook. There’s a lot you might learn from my experience, even… Read More
We are the Keepers: Time Capsule makes 1st stop on 400-year journey It was like witnessing the creation of a “generation ship” — a vessel that requires multiple human lifespans to reach… Read More
Digitally clueless: Why I finally canceled the Seattle Times Dear Seattle Times executives, I’m writing you in the traditional letter-to-the-editor format because it’s one with which I’m certain you’re… Read More
How the Seattle Public Library is helping authors overcome the Internet’s big lie An early and persistent myth of the web is that the Internet levels the playing field for commerce and content.… Read More
Facebook, you are dead to me … for now Friends, and you are my “friends:” I’m giving up on Facebook. No more status updates, no more vacation photos, no… Read More
I see dead words: Terminology that technology has left behind There are words that are dead. They just don’t know it yet. The advance of technology has left, in its wake,… Read More
Lies my Fitbit tells me It started at that stage in a relationship where the exhilaration and newness wears off. After eight months, I could no longer… Read More
Microsoft wades into education again with ‘Office Mix’ tool for PowerPoint It’s not easy being the big kid at the popular children’s pool. Yet that’s exactly where Microsoft finds itself with… Read More
An open letter to wannabe edtech entrepreneurs: Welcome to the crowd Hey, thanks for your tweet asking if you should do an edtech startup based on what I saw at this… Read More
Phished! Lessons learned from my smartphone stumble When it comes to tech scams, in the immortal words of Antonio Banderas’ Puss in Boots, I have shamed myself.… Read More
Amazon: Education’s passive lurker gets aggressive If you want to see the future of Amazon in education, don’t look to Seattle. Look to Sao Paulo. For… Read More
First, we kill all the ‘futurists’ This is a tale of two keynotes. One, by a working scientist explaining the work being done in her field.… Read More
Generational blindness: Is sexism in tech forever? There are many things that seem stubbornly cyclical in their refusal to be resolved in the tech industry. Password management.… Read More
Challenge accepted: My attempt to take an entire business trip without touching paper It began as a dare: Take an entire business trip without touching a piece of paper. I nearly choked on… Read More
Learn to code? No: Learn a real language The “learn to code” movement may be about to run afoul of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Few (least of… Read More
The weakest link in data privacy is, well, you Happy Data Privacy Day! The first round of credit card numbers is on me! Yes, this Tuesday, Jan. 28 really… Read More
2″ x 3.5″ evolution: Business cards reflect our tech All hail the lowly business card. For it is the most concise chronicler of the advances in communications technology. Despite… Read More
Four tech terms to forget in ’14 It’s 2014, and time to ring in the new and throw out the old. Old tech terms, that is: those… Read More
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
The secret to getting Amazon’s best customer service There’s a classic tech industry joke. A jet is lost in dense fog and low on fuel. The pilot, desperate… Read More
Kindle Fire HDX: The business person’s frenemy When the Kindle Fire HDX was first released, I read reviews that raved how this Kindle finally added business-friendly features,… 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
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
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
Tech happens: When tablets and schools don’t mix Memo to Microsoft: When it comes to Surface tablets in the classroom, be careful what you wish for. Because you… 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
Life’s a pitch: The other reasons startups do competitions The tech community has a rite of passage for its newborns hoping to reach adulthood. It is selective, it is… Read More
Google Chromecast: Welcome to the Post-Nerd Era Don’t try to be smarter than a smart device. That’s the main lesson I learned from an otherwise flawless first… 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
We’re with Windows, and we’re here to help: The anatomy of a scam On its face, it was totally unbelievable. After all, when was the last time you recall any tech support pro-actively… Read More
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