<p>This week brought to light a sore subject among some: newsrooms and code, the technological and verbal underpinning of computers, the Internet and the Web. An article <em>The Atlantic</em> took one clear position that beat reporters just do not need the skill, that it is a waste of time for journalists to learn code.</p>
Technology
‘…so stick around’
There is something to be said when an old TV show comes on TV, even if I have copies of that show in more than one format. Finding 22 minutes plus commercials on Dana’s fear of fish late at night is serendipitous.
Yes, Sports Night is on, well at least for 30 minutes every once in a while. A show that lasted only two seasons, whose premiere and finale passed sans hashtag still engages and enthralls.
On Ignorance
Someone was asking me recently what I thought about a certain new technology product, and while generally familiar with the brand and the product and able to speak intelligently on the topic I was not completely well versed. The product, a small pocket camera was just not a class of product I had been following.
‘Don’t be so humble…’
Senior yearbook quotes are a way that high school students can provide a parting thought to their classmates with whom they spent four years of high school (or in my case thirteen years of primary and secondary education). Some students choose to write lengthy tomes naming friends and activities, declaring how much they will miss the people with whom they spent four thirteen years.
Its more than Moore’s Law
I just started reading Jaron Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future and in one of the early chapters he asks a question that is often asked about computing. Is Moores Law inevitable or is it self-reenfircing?
Is it [Moore's Law] a human-drive, self-fulling prophecy or an intrinsic, inevitable quality of technology (10)