Category Archives: Culture

BBC News — Cambridge University puts Isaac Newton papers online

One of the geniuses of all time.

December 13, 2011 – 11:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Quick Posts, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

American Civil Liberties Union – It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!

Yeah for Net Neu­tral­ity, boo for my State Sen­a­tor being the one who intro­duced this resolution.

November 10, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Some really inter­est­ing stuff in here.

October 29, 2011 – 1:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

The White House – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Why haven’t you signed this petition?

September 24, 2011 – 2:23 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Newzbin2 builds block-averting measures into its software

Every time some­one tries to pre­vent infor­ma­tion from being reached on the Inter­net some­one else finds a way around it.

September 16, 2011 – 2:39 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

NYTimes.com – Lucasfilm Confirms Change to Blu-ray Release of ‘Return of the Jedi’

Lucas have you not done enough already?

August 31, 2011 – 7:15 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off