Culture and Society

Since we moved into our house over two years ago we have had the “family” computer down in the basement, which is great when my metal-inclined teenage son wants to loudly rock from his digital playlist or when I want to combine working out with obsessively checking in on Blogcritics, …

You’re young. You’re passionate. You know technology (and stuff). Microsoft Corp. has launched its second annual You Can Make a Difference scholarship program this week, which challenges secondary school students around the world to design technology-based projects to benefit charitable organizations. Previously available only to students from the United States …

In answer to that endlessly circulating question “where are all the female bloggers?”, I’ve decided to make a weekly collection that answers: HERE! Why “femme fatales”? Because these are killer posts. This week’s is drawn from my own blogroll, but in the next week if you read, or write, a …

There were over 820 million PCs in use throughout the world in 2004 and the total is projected to top 1 billion in 2007. Why is no one talking about birth contol for PCs? What will we feed them? Growth is slowing as the industrialized world, but will continue in …

As Matt Wardlaw mentioned yesterday, podcasting in particular and blogging in general have been getting a lot of attention in Cleveland of late (I just live-blogged the Rock Hall Induction for Cleveland.com Monday night), which is a good sign for all involved. Coincidentally, or not, tonight at 7 at the …

Maybe it’s because I work in computers for a living and know firsthand the perils of Version 1.0 (of anything), but when it comes to technology, I’m no early adopter. I’m a Mac specialist, but I learned to use OSX only when I had to support other OSX users. I’m …

I have been assigned the odious task of searching our IP logs for inappropriate internet content at work, a task I did not ask for, would rather not have, but for which I seem to have an inherent knack. By odd coincidence, on the very day we set out to …

This is a freaky little blast of ephemera from iFilm (view here). In 1964, Jim Morrison appeared an earnest, clean-cut and perplexed prospective Florida State University student turned down for admission because there just wasn’t enough money to go around, in an odd bit of black-and-white propaganda produced by the …

Blogs are wonderful, but there are millions of them, and how do you find like-minded souls among the multitudes? Like many bloggers, I suspect, my initial discoveries were random, but I soon learnt to follow others’ blogrolls. But after a while that becomes horribly circular. One way to break out …

275,000 images, from Civil War photographs, illuminated manuscripts, and Japanese prints, to New York City views, early American maps, and much more are now available free online. A treasury of images from the collections of The New York Public Library is accessible free of charge over the Internet starting today …