technology

iLeave

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (AAPL), has announced that he will be relinquishing his day-to-day duties, taking a “medical leave” from the company. In Jobs’s…


Harsh critics

During the NFL Playoffs divisional weekend, a curious trending topic on Twitter and sports blogs left me questioning the power of the sports blogosphere and…


Athlete’s Angle

Over the past couple of years, I’ve realized and accepted that watching six hockey games a week and nine hours of football on Sunday is…



Networks without the ’net

Point and click, launch a program and watch as the green bar fills itself up. Do you think it’s always been this easy to share…



Strictly Platonic

It happens kind of like this. You browse for a while, looking for something interesting, or rather, something you’re interested in. You can’t seem to…


The media war online

Towards the end of the film Pirates of Silicon Valley — the mostly excellent, if quirky, nineties equivalent of The Social Network about Microsoft and…


Petaflops! Terabytes!

The abundance of decorations, promotions and candy seemed to indicate that there was a celebration or festival going on in the last week of October….


Tweet this!

Professional athletes often joke about how fast insider information travels within the sports media world. Fans can learn of a trade hours before the player…