Just What Do You Do With A Gigabit Of Bandwidth, Anyway? Paradoxically, You Wait.
So, just what do you do with a gigabit of bandwidth, anyway? Slate technology columnist Farhad Manjoo recently traveled to Kansas City, home of Google’s über-fast fiber optic Internet service — Google Fiber — to get a first hand look.
Read more“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
Bloggled: Helsinki Bus Station Theory, Google Glass Banned, & Happy B-Day Hitchhiker
Career Advice: The Helsinki Bus Station Theory [via: Karen McGrane]. Puts me in mind of Ira Glass’s comments on stuff nobody tells beginners (also available in the handy Zen Pencils edition). Google Glass hasn’t hit the streets yet, but it’s already...
Et Tu, Best Buy? Why Are Captains Of Technology Scuttling Their Own Ships?
There’ve been interesting developments since Chief Yahoo Marissa Mayer put the kabosh on work-at-homers in late February. Did I say interesting? I meant disturbing.
Read more“Sprinkling the Internet on a bad business model does not magically make it a good business model. It merely means that the people who are pursuing a bad business model are hoping you are credulous enough to believe that being electronic is space-age zoomy and awesome and there is no possible way this brilliant business plan could ever fail. Or even worse, that they believe that being electronic means all these things, which means they are credulous. Which is not a very good thing to have as the basis of one’s business model.”
— John Scalzi
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