What Happens to Your Library When the Site Dies
Three weeks after Grooveshark shut down for good, I'm still mad about the library I lost and what it says about renting your music instead of owning it.
Facebook Wants to Host My Words Now
Facebook's new Instant Articles launched this week with nine big publishers on board. A one-person blog's take on why that trade makes sense for the New York Times and not for sites like this one.
Facebook Instant Articles and My Stubborn RSS Habit
Facebook's new Instant Articles launched this week for nine publishers, and it's got me thinking about my stubborn old RSS habit and what's left of the open web.
Verizon Bought AOL and All I Can Hear Is a Modem
Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion, and I can't stop thinking about free-trial CDs and the sound of a 56k modem instead of the ad-tech strategy everyone else is writing about.
Instant Articles and My Own Domain
Facebook launched Instant Articles today with nine big publishers on board, and it's got me thinking about why I still like owning my own domain.
Powerwall Math for People Who Rent
Doing late-night math on whether a Tesla Powerwall makes sense for a renter, plus a tangent about Age of Ultron's rogue-AI plot and why that story never seems to change anything.
Watching SpaceX Blow Up a Capsule On Purpose
SpaceX blew up an empty capsule on purpose this week to prove it could save astronauts' lives someday, and I spent a coffee break watching the live feed instead of working.
Watching a Capsule Launch Itself Off the Pad
SpaceX ran a pad abort test for the Dragon V2 capsule at Cape Canaveral, and a weird wobble under the parachutes made it more interesting than a routine safety check.
Ultron, May the Fourth, and a Battery I Can't Even Plug In
A weekend of Age of Ultron, an unplanned May the Fourth marathon, and some idle math about whether a Tesla Powerwall would even fit in my apartment.
How I Watched Mayweather-Pacquiao on a Stranger's Periscope Feed
The Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV crashed for half the East Coast Saturday night, so we ended up watching the fight through a stranger's Periscope stream instead.
The Fight Nobody Could Order, and the App That Streamed It Anyway
The Mayweather-Pacquiao PPV system crashed for paying customers Saturday night, while thousands watched free on Periscope instead — a bigger tech story than the fight itself.
Twitter Leaked Its Own Bad News Today
Twitter's Q1 earnings leaked out nearly an hour early today after a research firm found them sitting live on NASDAQ's site, and the stock cratered before the company could even make its own announcement.