The Apprentices of a Digital Age

[NyTimes] : "Shailia Ittycheria and Kane Sarhan founded Enstitute, an on-the-job alternative to attending college. JASMINE GAO, who is 19, just wasn't the classroom type. So instead of languishing in college, she"

When Attackers Become Defenders, Innovation Is Lost

[NyTimes] : "This interview with Steve Case, chief executive of Revolution, an investment firm, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Mr. Case was also a founder of America Online. Q. What were some early"

A Child’s Wild Kingdom

[NyTimes] : "IN a couple of weeks, my daughter will turn into a dolphin. Right now, she’s a fox. Last year, she was a cricket. That’s just how it"

Brain, Interrupted

[NyTimes] : "TECHNOLOGY has given us many gifts, among them dozens of new ways to grab our attention. It’s hard to talk to a friend without your phone buzzing at least once. Odds are hig"

Cyberparenting and the Risk of T.M.I.

[NyTimes] : "It may be a timeless curse of parenthood to know simultaneously too much about one's teenager and yet never access the information one actually wants. But the unruly morass of today's social media"

The Google Now dilemma: Yes, it's kind of creepy -- but it's also incredibly useful

[Link] : One of the reasons I decided to make the switch from using an iPhone to an Android phone — in addition to the freedom it allowed me from Apple’s walled garden — was that I was…

Rooting exploit could turn Google Glass into secret surveillance tool

[Link] : A smartphone hacker has provided conclusive proof that the futuristic computing headset known as Google Glass can be surreptitiously modified to give anyone with physical access almost complete…

In Online Video, Street Cred vs. Quality

[NyTimes] : "Felicia Day, an actress and Web celebrity, at a YouTube presentation Wednesday. AS online video becomes increasingly appealing to Madison Avenue as an advertising medium, a lively debate is under way"

Airport Project Reflects a Changing Silicon Valley

[NyTimes] : "Mary Kear, who grew up in Mountain View, has had to move over the years because of rising rents. Now the owner of the mobile home park where she lives in Palo Alto wants to sell to a developer. SAN"

Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine

[NyTimes] : "Michelle Crosby, an energetic 37-year-old lawyer in Boise, Idaho, applied for a loan last November from a local bank, Western Capital. She proposed to use the money, $10,000, to help start a new"

Are Older Programmers More Knowledgeable?

[Link] : A recent study based on Stack Overflow’s data attempts to answer if programming knowledge is related to age, if older programmers are more knowledgeable and if they acquire new skills or not.…

Technical Issues, Squarespace

Technical issues on Squarespace site currently prevent me from keeping my ticker feed updated. Squarespace is working on a fix. Thank your for your patience!

Google Glass app lets you take photos with a wink

[Link] : A Google Glass developer has created an app that allows you to take a photo using just your eye. The Winky app, currently available for compiling through GitHub, lets you power up Glass from standby…

One Big Workbench

[NyTimes] : "Joe Bowers, Steve Shafer and Lacey Crosby working in the library of Noisebridge in San Francisco. More Photos » Under diffe"

The Pressure to Be the TV News Leader Tarnishes a Big Brand

[NyTimes] : "John King of CNN mistakenly reported on Wednesday that a suspect had been arrested in the Boston Marathon case. Like a lot of Americans, when I woke up on Friday morning and found out there was a"

Amazon's Boom in Cloud Partners

[NyTimes] : "You can tell when a technology is really taking hold. In addition to picking up customers, it generates other businesses that require their own care and feeding. And some of those businesses can"

NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

[Link] : NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. This aspect of NoSQL is well-studied both in practice and theory because…

In-Room Entertainment Turns Away From TV

[NyTimes] : "Len Markidan, a marketing consultant, says his travel entertainment is the same as at home: “a Hulu subscription, Amazon Prime and Netflix.” LEN MARKIDAN, a 26-year-old marketing consultant based in"

In Venture Capital Deals, Not Every Founder Will Be a Zuckerberg

[NyTimes] : "It's the dream of entrepreneurs to sell their company for millions of dollars. But the dirty secret of venture capital is that the dream can be dashed as the venture capitalists make millions in a"

Measuring The Benefits Of Tech Tools

[NyTimes] : "When I was a young reporter we could not afford cellphones. I remember waiting in line for a pay phone in downtown Mexico City one afternoon to call in the news about the auction to privatize the"