A recent article in Technology Review examined the brains behind the Obama campaign’s (new) media strategy, providing a fascinating look at the foresight and creativity and just plain smarts that drove the advertising, campaigning, social-networking, etc. that helped him to win the Democratic nomination and that now is continuing in the general election. Regardless of field of [...]

This is such a cool story it’s worth repeating here. Two dumbass dudes burgled $5000 worth of laptops, ipods, game consoles, and other electronics from the White Plains apartment of a woman who works at an Apple Store and who has a .Mac account. Lucky her, too bad for them. When a co-worker at the [...]

I’ve had my iPhone for a week now and I can report that yes, it’s pretty much worth the investment. The two things other have cited as drawbacks — slow downloads when not on a Wi-Fi network and quickly drained battery — are true, but are more of a minor annoyance than dealbreaker. The convenience [...]

So, now Sara and I have His & Her iPhones. I should be posting this directly from mine, but I’ll wait until someone comes up with an external keyboard for it. It’s true — I succumbed to the tech temptation and got an iPhone for my b-day. It pretty much lives up to the hype, [...]

Stevie gave his keynote today at Macworld 2008 and I had been waiting to hear what’s in store with respect to the iPhone so that I might make one a birthday gift to self or continue to hold out for rev. 2. Well, no 3G or even bigger storage space was announced, so I might [...]

This is “Zeno” a 17-inch tall, 6-pound robot boy that David Hanson of Hanson Robotics has built in the likeness of Japanese manga and TV anime icon Tetsuwan Atomu (Mighty Atom, Astro Boy) crossed with his real live 18-month-old son, also named Zeno (I thought child abuse was against the law). As Hanson describes it:

“It’s [...]

Okay, so Goyablog has seemed dormant if not dead lately. That’s because the new semester has begun. I’m teaching 3 courses this fall (one new one) and the run-up prep for the new term and the daily and weekly juggle of work and home life has rendered me too exhausted to give Goyablog its due [...]

So, I get a faster MacBook Pro and one of the first things I do is load Second Life on it and create with Sara a new avatar, Animus Klaar. I’m actually teaching a course this semester, Transpacific Cyberpunk, in which simulated worlds figure highly, so I consider this course prep. Anyway, for the first [...]