It's traditional to create resolutions for the new year. I've been thinking a lot about where I want to take my work in 2014; these are some ideas.
Write.
Specifically, I want to write more for other people, following from my previous work for the likes of ZDNet, IBM DeveloperWorks and Packt ...
December 30, 2013
Wired reports that we're about to lose net neutrality, and "the Internet as we know it":
[...] Today, that freedom won’t survive much longer if a federal court — the second most powerful court in the nation behind the Supreme Court, the DC Circuit — is set to strike down the ...
December 30, 2013
As part of the Nieman Journalism Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2014, Jason Kottke writes:
Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. Sure, blogs still exist, many of them are excellent, and they will go on existing and being excellent for many years to ...
December 20, 2013
TechCrunch reports that IBM bought Aspera yesterday:
Aspera’s software is built on “fasp,” its patented file transfer technology. Fasp is designed to leverage a company’s wide area network (WAN) and commodity hardware to achieve speeds that are faster than FTP and HTTP over a secure network. A WAN is essentially a ...
December 20, 2013
Aral Balkan announced IndiePhone today. He did a good job of making it sound exciting, in a very Jobsian way:
I think it's great that he's driving interest in the subject, and of course it's fantastic to see anyone starting something up with these sorts of principles. I particularly agree with ...
December 7, 2013
I've been using personal computers since before I could write my name, but grew up hating Macs. To me, they were expensive, style-fascist icons that represented a kind of elitism that I was allergic to. Computers should be for everybody, and I felt like the Mac represented an ideal of ...
December 3, 2013
This little exchange has been tickling me:
In closing the debate Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury looked back to the past and directed a question directly at Lord Grade, previous Director of Programmes at the BBC Michael Grade.
"Finally, as Doctor Who has dominated the debate and I see my noble friend Lord ...
December 2, 2013