For a few months, those of us who care passionately about the New York City tech community have been debating the City’s Applied Sciences NYC plan, which wil...

Major labels function with the assumption that 90 percent of artists they sign are going to fail — that should have been a red flag for everybody. I mean tha...

Right now, the most important thing you could be doing is reading these web pages: Jeff Clavier celebrates his second blogging anniversary and quotes me...

David says that Google’s angle on snapping up library content is to prevent banner farmers from scanning it all in and wrapping AdSense around it. That may...

The History of Eating Utensils . Dig in....

CensusScope is a research site that lets you explore all of the data from the 2000 U.S. Census....

Netscan is an experimental software package designed to aid in the sociological study of the Internet being developed by Marc Smith , a research sociologist...

There are people doing the work of science, manufacturing knowledge for the rest of us. I like to read about what they do, and maybe you will too. Go lookit G...

Among the best sources of useful research links on the web is Poytner’s Web Tips . Check it twice weekly and read the archives....

I’ve linked to it here before, but the AT&T Labs Interactive TTS Demo is well worth checking out. TTS is Text to Speech, meaning you type in your (presum...

Wait a minute, I was going to kiss Dan ‘s ass again for his incredible scholarship recently at both Lake Effect and on MetaFilter. But then I went to look at...

Been meaning to try it for a while, so I’m finally getting around to downloading AT&T’s VNC – Virtual Network Computing utility. Anyone have any experien...

For those of you who need statistics to back up common sense , here’s proof that simple = safe in the minds of users. Courtesy of useit.com...

In honor of my impending move back to New York , here’s something very cool. Called the CyberTimes Navigator , it is the page NY Times reporters use internal...