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Beyond touch interfaces

November 27, 2011

Siri and the Kinect are too dif­fer­ent inter­pre­ta­tions of the future of computing.

New York to displace Silicon Valley

January 8, 2011

Within a decade, New York could dis­place Sil­i­con Val­ley as the epi­cen­ter of the tech­nol­ogy world.

The Gaming Decade

November 21, 2010

The next decade is going to be a huge decade for the gam­ing space, bring­ing atten­tion to it in the same way as the 1990s were the inter­net dot­com decade.

Is Ownership Passé?

May 4, 2009

In this first piece in a series, I look at own­er­ship vs. rent­ing, the result of a num­ber of obser­va­tions through­out the last few months.

2009 Predictions: Hardware

January 5, 2009

Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gad­gets will be com­ing this year and the trends they will engender.

Is high volatility the new normal?

October 6, 2008

Look­ing at the fluc­tu­a­tion of the Dow over the last few weeks, I noticed a pat­tern of increased volatil­ity. In this entry, I try to present some of what I’m look­ing at and hope that read­ers will help me bet­ter under­stand that data.

Is Techmeme myopic?

June 2, 2008

I’m a big fan of Tech­Meme, a web aggre­ga­tion ser­vice that pro­vides, at a glance, a few of what’s being dis­cussed in the technology-focused part of the blo­gos­phere. It has allowed me to unsub­scribe from a large num­ber of RSS feeds that were pro­vid­ing me with redun­dant infor­ma­tion and I’ve long hoped for a ver­sion of Tech­Meme that would pro­vide me […]

Mind the Gap

April 16, 2003

Accord­ing to recent research, the dig­i­tal divide may include peo­ple who are not inter­ested in get­ting online. The impli­ca­tion of this are enor­mous, impact­ing areas like E-government ini­tia­tive. The idea of pro­vid­ing more ser­vices online allows cor­po­ra­tions and gov­ern­ment to reduce costs by encour­ag­ing self ser­vice. How­ever, if a num­ber of peo­ple decide that there is […]

Water found to be wet

February 28, 2003

If blog­ging is to replace jour­nal­ism, it has to do a bet­ter job than cur­rent jour­nal­ists. Even jour­nal­ists are now decry­ing the low qual­ity of report­ing. Of note: “CEOs describe busi­ness jour­nal­ists as lack­ing a basic under­stand­ing of how busi­nesses oper­ate.” Now that’s pretty scary. If you cover some­thing, shouldn’t you at least under­stand its basics? The […]

Memo to Media Execs

There’s an inter­est­ing Michael Wolff piece in New York about the declin­ing value of con­tent. (Dis­claimer: I used to work for Michael in the early 90s) While I gen­er­ally agree with the con­cept that con­tent is becom­ing more wide­spread and that there is an increase in the amount of con­tent being pro­duced, I fun­da­men­tally dis­agree with his assumption […]