Week of 2012/01/15

[NyTimes]

• "Cracking Open the Scientific Process" [nytimes]
• "Dodd Calls for Hollywood and Silicon Valley to Meet" [nytimes]
• "Keep It Simple" [nytimes]
• "A New 'Law' for the Mobile Computing Era" [nytimes]
• "The Rise of the New Groupthink" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Do we want textbooks to live in Apple's walled garden? [link]
• We’re entering the golden age of Hadoop [link]
• A Post PIPA Post [link]

Week of 2012/01/08

[NyTimes]

• "Building the Team That Built Watson" [nytimes]
• "New Storage Device Is Very Small, at 12 Atoms" [nytimes]
• "To Preserve History on the Moon, Visitors Are Asked to Tread Lightly" [nytimes]
• "The Value of Teachers" [nytimes]
• "Scientist’s Online Interviews Draw His Peers Out of Lecture Mode" [nytimes]
• "Deciding Who's Rich (or Smart) Enough for High-Risk Investments" [nytimes]
• "Fighting Antipiracy Measure, Activist Group Posts Personal Information of Media Executives" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Why Do We Always Sell the Next Generation Short? [link]
• Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing [link]
• "Car as a Platform" Wars [link]
• Drew Berry: Keynote on Communicating Science Visually [link]

Week of 2012/01/01

[NyTimes]

• "Even a Giant Can Learn to Run" [nytimes]
• "To Enjoy the View Without Help From an iPhone" [nytimes]
• "An Ad Blocker Opens the Gate, Ever So Slightly" [nytimes]
• "Lines That Shaped Manhattan" [nytimes]
• "Continuing Education, at the Bar" [nytimes]
• "Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Books That Are Never Done Being Written [link]
• You are what you curate [link]
• Scaling up to hold your life story [link]

Week of 2011/12/25

[NyTimes]

• "Debate Persists on Deadly Flu Made Airborne" [nytimes]
• "Organic Agriculture May Be Outgrowing Its Ideals" [nytimes]
• "Hackers Breach the Web Site of Stratfor Global Intelligence" [nytimes]
• "Even a Giant Can Learn to Run" [nytimes]
• "New Rules for the Ways We Watch" [nytimes]
• "Graceful Moves, for a Boy Made of Metal" [nytimes]

[Links]

• The year in big data and data science [link]
• What to do when Amazon’s spot prices spike [link]
• A VC: Mocked And Misunderstood [link]
• Siri: The Horror Movie [link]

Week of 2011/12/18

[NyTimes]

• "Journals Asked To Cut Details Of Flu Studies" [nytimes]
• "Two Earth-Size Planets Are Discovered" [nytimes]
• "The Internet Gets Physical" [nytimes]
• "If These Moms Can't Find It, They Invent It" [nytimes]
• "What Nail-Polish Sales Tell Us About the Economy" [nytimes]
• "Publishers vs. Libraries" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Video: Creative Companies .. Ben Chestnut [link]
• It’s time to punish terrible viral marketing [link]
• Augmented Reality with Processing [link]
• Impress Your Family This Holiday Season with Wolfram Alpha and Siri [link]

Week of 2011/12/11

[NyTimes]

• "Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools" [nytimes]
• "As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows" [nytimes]
• "Readers Return to the Stores" [nytimes]
• "A Blueprint for Leadership" [nytimes]
• "Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera" [nytimes]
• "TaskRabbit Plans to Multiply" [nytimes]
• "I Just Watched 'Creepshow 2'" [nytimes]
• "The Family Ski Trip" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Math is the new sexiness in IT [link]
• Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience [link]
• Getting Started Guide: Analyzing Big Data with AWS [link]

Week of 2011/12/04

[NyTimes]

• "Xbox Live Challenges Cable Box" [nytimes]
• "YouTube Buys Company That Processes Music Royalties" [nytimes]
• "Online Learning, Personalized" [nytimes]
• "With Lobbying Blitz, For-Profit Colleges Diluted New Rules" [nytimes]
• "Go Online, Beat a Puzzle and Become a British Spy" [nytimes]

[Links]

• Looking for a map reduce language [link]
• Data Mining Billions of Tweets [link]
• White House to open source Data.gov as open government data platform [link]
• Video: Worlds Biggest Miniature Airport [link]

Week of 2011/11/27

[NyTimes]

• "Programmer Raises Concerns About Phone-Monitoring Software" [nytimes]
• "DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data" [nytimes]
• "Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain" [nytimes]
• "The Importance of Painting a Clear Picture" [nytimes]
• "What’s Past Is Postable" [nytimes]
• "Flipboard Adds Its First iPad Catalog for Gilt Taste" [nytimes]

[Links]

• What comes next [link]
• Coding - the new Latin [link]
• An Illustrated Guide to Cryptographic Hashes [link]
• Video: Stephen Wolfram, "Computing the World" [link]

Week of 2011/11/20

[NyTimes]

• "For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper" [nytimes]
• "With Apps, Wealth Management Goes Mobile" [nytimes]
• "Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile" [nytimes]
• "Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft's Turf" [nytimes]
• "Want to Lead? Learn to Nurture Your Butterflies" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How quickly our connected lives crumble when the power goes out [link]
• The 6 Pillars Of Steve Jobs's Design Philosophy [link]
• Peggy Noonan On Steve Jobs And Why Big Companies Die [link]
• Gnip - Access to over 100 realtime social media streams [link]

Week of 2011/11/13

[NyTimes]

• "Once Wary, Apple Warms Up to Business Market" [nytimes]
• "Bell Ringers Go Digital This Season" [nytimes]
• "Internet Architects Warn of Risks in Ultrafast Networks" [nytimes]
• "When Sites Drag the Unwitting Across the Web" [nytimes]
• "Newspapers' Digital Apostle" [nytimes]

[Links]

• How iPads, phones & sensors will redefine our homes [link]
• Why Google gets no respect (from developers) [link]
• Twitter is a stream, but it's also a reservoir [link]
• Flixster hands out iTunes codes to unhappy UltraViolet users [link]