Week of 2012/05/20

[NyTimes]

• "Private Cargo Rocket Heads to Space Station" [nytimes]
• "Don't Climb Every Mountain" [nytimes]
• "Prized Logo Is Returned to Ford" [nytimes]
• "The Banker’s Job" [nytimes]
• "Are You Safe on That Sofa?" [nytimes]
• "Troves of Personal Data, Forbidden to Researchers" [nytimes]
• "Maturing as Publisher and Platform" [nytimes]
• "A Human Antenna of Breaking News" [nytimes]
• "A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Twitter, Facebook Join the List of In-Car Distractions [link]
• CEO Commencement Wisdom 2012 [link]
• Open Garden Lets You Crowdsource Your Mobile Connectivity [link]
• Mastery And Mimicry [link]

Week of 2012/05/13

[NyTimes]

• "Facebook’s Prospects May Rest on Trove of Data" [nytimes]
• "Making Choices in the Age of Information Overload" [nytimes]
• "Meet Your Neighbors, if Only Online" [nytimes]
• "Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News Cycle" [nytimes]
• "The Push to Make Cab Rides Smarter" [nytimes]
• "Writer’s Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking" [nytimes]
• "Who Made That Clothespin?" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Why 900M isn’t the only number that matters to Facebook [link]
• Patent troll tries to mangle hand craft site Etsy [link]
• Mayor Bloomberg Unveils New Map to Chart the Locations and Job Openings of NYC Tech Companies [link]
• Patagonia's Founder is America's Most Unlikely Business Guru [link]

Week of 2012/05/06

[NyTimes]

• "In JPMorgan Chase Trading Bet, Its Confidence Yields to Loss" [nytimes]
• "Technology Industry Seen Growing Fastest in New York" [nytimes]
• "Freight Train Late? Blame Chicago" [nytimes]
• "Disruptions: Indiscreet Photos, Glimpsed Then Gone" [nytimes]
• "Could These Start-Ups Become the Next Big Thing?" [nytimes]
• "A Derby Win, but a Troubled Record for a Trainer" [nytimes]
• "The Ethicist Contest Winner: Give Thanks for Meat" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Leadership (or lack thereof) begins at the top [link]
• The rise of the technical VC [link]
• 10 Success Principles of Apple’s Innovation Master Jonathan Ive [link]

Week of 2012/04/29

[NyTimes]

• "The Joy of Drawing on Glass" [nytimes]
• "A Stunning, New Social Media Tactic: Handwritten Notes" [nytimes]
• "Disruptions: With No Revenue, an Illusion of Value" [nytimes]
• "Microsoft to Take Stake in Barnes & Noble’s Nook Unit" [nytimes]
• "If Peas Can Talk, Should We Eat Them?" [nytimes]
• "How to Muddy Your Tracks on the Internet" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Data and visualization blogs worth following [link]
• iOS app success is a "lottery": 60% (or more) of developers don't break even [link]
• The real-life Robinson Crusoe [link]

Week of 2012/04/22

[NyTimes]

• "The Flight From Conversation" [nytimes]
• "Watching Every Click You Make" [nytimes]
• "Genres Stretch, for Better and Worse, as YouTube Takes On TV" [nytimes]
• "Salesforce Moves into the Government Cloud and Social" [nytimes]
• "Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously" [nytimes]
• "Home-Sharing? Don’t Ignore Liability" [nytimes]
• "At 92, Bandit to Hollywood but Hero to Soldiers" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Overcoming Artificial Stupidity [link]
• Apps that turn into toys [link]

Week of 2012/04/15

[NyTimes]

• "Awake or Knocked Out? The Line Gets Blurrier" [nytimes]
• "Supercomputing Rented by the Hour" [nytimes]
• "Crowd-Sourcing Expands Power of Brain Research" [nytimes]
• "Online Education Venture Lures Cash Infusion and Deals With 5 Top Universities" [nytimes]
• "Web Site Stole Job Seekers’ Data in Tax-Fraud Scheme" [nytimes]
• "How Green Are Electric Cars? Depends on Where You Plug In" [nytimes]
• "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, Again" [nytimes]

[Links]

• This Touchscreen Watch, Pebble, Hit $2 M. Faster Than Any Other Kickstarter Project [link]
• Giving Developers a Voice with the Watson Speech APIs [link]
• AWS Marketplace [link]
• Audi to pay $1.12 billion for Ducati [link]

Week of 2012/04/08

[NyTimes]

• "Digital Diary: Instagram and the Internet’s 'Secret' Places" [nytimes]
• "A Billion-Dollar Turning Point for Mobile Apps" [nytimes]
• "Facebook to Buy Photo-Sharing Service Instagram for $1 Billion" [nytimes]
• "Spam Invades a Last Refuge, the Cellphone" [nytimes]
• "What 23 Years of E-Mail May Say About You" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it’s a button [link]
• Check out Punch, the Mad mag for the iPad people [link]
• Amazon CloudSearch [link]
• A behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering [link]

Week of 2012/04/01

[NyTimes]

• "Google Begins Testing Its Augmented Reality Glasses" [nytimes]
• "A Satellite System That Could End Circling Above the Airport" [nytimes]
• "Hotel’s Free Wi-Fi Comes With Hidden Extras" [nytimes]
• "Widespread Virus Proves Macs Are No Longer Safe From Hackers" [nytimes]
• "Police Are Using Phone Tracking as a Routine Tool" [nytimes]
• "JOBS Act Jeopardizes Safety Net for Investors" [nytimes]
• "The Best Scorecard Is the One You Keep for Yourself" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Curating Big Data in the Cloud [link]
• The rise of e-reading [link]
• Questions Amazon Should Answer About Its Cloud Strategy [link]
• Video: PAL-V Flying Car - Maiden Flight [link]

Week of 2012/03/25

[NyTimes]

• "'Pink Slime' Losing Place on School Lunch Menus" [nytimes]
• "Bringing Up an E-Reader" [nytimes]
• "Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them." [nytimes]
• "Bizarre Insights From Big Data" [nytimes]
• "The Girls Around Me App Takes Creepy to a New Level" [nytimes]
• "Conflict Over How Open 'Do Not Track' Talks Will Be" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Swimming robots set world record [link]
• Surveillance spyware migrates from Windows to Mac OS X [link]
• US card processor hit by 'massive' breach [link]
• Red Wine, Tartaric Acid And The Secret Of Superconductivity [link]
• Video: ABC monsters [link]

Week of 2012/03/18

[NyTimes]

• "Rocket Plunge to Deep End of the Planet" [nytimes]
• "On Wall St., Keeping a Tight Rein on Twitter" [nytimes]
• "The Way We Read Now" [nytimes]
• "Generic Drugs Prove Resistant to Damage Suits" [nytimes]
• "What Hath Bell Labs Wrought? The Future" [nytimes]
• "The Limits of American Exceptionalism" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort [link]