1 month ago
Anil : Hold The Door Open - Though it's currently in vogue to threaten the President with ricin, the fashion when I was a younger man was to intimidate newspapers with anthrax. During those heady days I happened to work at a newspaper, and as always the terrifying eventually evolved
#8 month ago
Anil : To Less Efficient Startups - Most of the technology world, especially the traditional venture funding infrastructure, is justifiably proud of the extreme efficiency of modern internet startups. It is a triumph for Craigslist to serve hundreds of millions of users with only a few doze
#11 month ago
nelson : A year of hermit hacking - Pamela Fox's awesome presentation on working alone for a year
#14 month ago
nelson : Tech in Asia - Good general news blog focussed on China, Japan, etc.
#15 month ago
Anil : Politics is a Business. A Big, Broken One. - I'm an idealist. I want all governments to work in an ideal, uncorrupted state. But I'd settle for the governments which I live under to work in a way that were at least a bit more responsive and transparent. But part of the reason that doesn't happen is
#29 month ago
Rod Begbie : The Best Tech Writing of 2010 - Gentlemen, start your Instapapers! [via] #
#30 month ago
nelson : Duck Duck Go blog - Blog by the founder of the new search engine UI
#33 month ago
nelson : World Power Systems - Tom Jennings' site for projects. Very creative guy going back many years, he's credited on The Wilderness Machine
#33 month ago
nelson : Mr.doob's blog - Another one of the Wilderness Downtown people, creative Javascript art
#37 month ago
Rod Begbie : Help Wanted - Todd Agres from Spark Capital on the lack of quality software engineering talent available at the moment. "A blight ensues when there are hundreds of companies looking for the same people. I would guess that there are at least twice as many engineering [via] #
#37 month ago
Rod Begbie : An Open Letter to Our Industry - Great post by Erika Hall on the whitedudiness of most tech conference lineups. [via] #
#43 month ago
deusx : Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now | Wired Science | Wired.com - "The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "
#44 month ago
Anil : Communities of Creators - Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero's restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the time, most of us at the table knew each other primarily through the web and through the then-nascent blogging communi
#44 month ago
Anil : Communities of Creators - Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero's restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the time, most of us at the table knew each other primarily through the web and through the then-nascent blogging communi
#44 month ago
deusx : Compubeaver - It's not a dead badger, but it'll do. "Kasey McMahon decided to combine an interest in taxidermy with her PC. Fearing that the natural world is being replaced by technology, the artist installed a working computer inside of an idle beaver.&
#45 month ago
Anil : These Things Are Related - Here are some interesting recent blog posts and articles, mostly by friends or acquaintances of mine, all of which add up to an interesting narrative. Spencer Ante in BusinessWeek documents Mint's sale to Intuit: Mint.com owes much of its success
#45 month ago
Anil : These Things Are Related - Here are some interesting recent blog posts and articles, mostly by friends or acquaintances of mine, all of which add up to an interesting narrative. Spencer Ante in BusinessWeek documents Mint's sale to Intuit: Mint.com owes much of its success
#46 month ago
Rod Begbie : This Decade in Tech - "There are three stories in IT journalism" #
#47 month ago
deusx : Ann Arbor Startup Community Report H1′09 | Ann Arbor Startup Blog - "Here’s a brief review of the last 6 months of grassroots tech / startup community organizing in Ann Arbor, MI, originally intended for the July 2009 Ann Arbor New Tech Meetup (but foiled by a blown projector bulb)…"
#47 month ago
deusx : Writing a Technical Book - "Based on the amount of time we put into the book this works out at something slightly below slave labour rates. Never write a technical book for the money. No really. Spend your evenings in McDonalds if you need extra cash."
#47 month ago
deusx : A Place Geeks Can Call Home - Concentrate - "Geeks can now find a home, build business success and form strong social bonds with others of their kind in the new private workspaces. Workantile Exchange, a co-working facility on Main Street, and Tech Brewery on the city's north side, have b
#48 month ago
gleuschk : Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? - this is a really fantastic essay. pushes all my buttons
#48 month ago
deusx : Not their parents' basement: Students open business incubator on ground floor of Ann Arbor building - "A group of student entrepreneurs has opened a small-business incubator in the basement of a downtown Ann Arbor building. They'll spend the summer sharing space, equipment and ideas. The incubator, called the TechArb, hosts 30 students running
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