A Happy Amnesia On MLK Jr. Day

I'm too young to remember what the creators of RememberSegregation.org are asking me to relive. But the landing page pulls me back to a previous life, a regressive and haunting reminder things weren't always as they are. The page opens with a command to classify yourself-white visitors to the left, colored visitors to the right.

Seagate Ships Vertical Hard Drives…

Scotts Valley, California-based Seagate Technology shipped their latest tiny, high-powered offering in the form of the Momentus. The new drive touts Seagate's perpendicular recording system. This takes the notebook drive capacity to 160 gigabytes, up from the 120 gigs.

Gather Waves Ad Cash At Bloggers

Blog networks opened a lot of eyes when AOL tossed down about $25 million at Weblogs Inc, and Gather looks like an effort that wants to follow in those high-priced footsteps.

AdAge Strikes Again

...it occurred to me that there is no such thing as blogging. There is no such thing as a blogger.

Anybody Care That The Robots Are Winning?

This shift to contextual advertising caused by intelligent software has privacy advocates going squirrelly, particularly because the larger public seems relatively unconcerned. After all, says the public, it's all about the end-user experience, not whether a robot saw my iTunes list or my Gmail inbox and made a suggestion.