In case you need a reminder about the glacial pace of innovation in #highered, here’s a news story that some professors are learning to use Wikipedia. Wait, what? This article […]
Nah, i’m not going to return the Apple watch. Here’s why.
June 28, 2015 by
I bought it with the dream of walking on the beach and listening to audiobooks. Well, it can’t do that. So I really thought about returning my now two-week-old Apple […]
The truth about Apple and audiobooks
June 23, 2015 by
This story does not (yet) end happily. I knew I’d buy an Apple watch…but my rationalization was that it would consolidate my other wearables for audiobooks and fitness. For books, […]
Turns out, I’m addicted to Chrome. #needintervention
February 15, 2015 by
I did have a quick rebound relationship with Firefox. (Got to change this analogy, it’s kinda creepy, I agree.) But it turns out that my iPad is more important than […]
But-but-but Firefox is helpless on iPads. What now?
February 14, 2015 by
Turns out that Eric Limer and I must have been having the same Chrome moment. (thanks, Carie, for pointing this out!). As he put it on Gizmodo just this week, […]
Chrome cost me a week of productivity. Firefox, anyone?
February 13, 2015 by
Chrome kept crashing. It has been a few months since the “Snap” message made me smile with indulgent amusement. I was not amused. I deleted, re-installed: same thing. So when […]
Dead malls would make great tech incubators.
January 8, 2015 by
There have been a spate of articles lately about dead shopping malls. Here’s one from Green Acres. I’m a little too old to have been a teenage mall rat. For […]
Top 10 things to listen while beach walking and you don’t have a great audiobook* This is the summer of Swell.
July 3, 2014 by
I usually listen to audiobooks while walking in solitary happiness on the beaches of Fire Island. Look — i took this picture this morning, isn’t it beautiful? So far […]
Five things I learned from Red Burns
November 3, 2013 by
1. Nobody Knows. As in, where is technology going? Since nobody knows, keep asking questions, keep experimenting, keep moving in the same step-by-step direction known to all good entrepreneurs. The solutions […]
Reconstituting the Ivy League in the 21st century? Nice shoutout to Fathom from Tamar Lewin @NYT. #highered
May 3, 2012 by
Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year […]