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Introducing Newsasaurus

It was 11 years ago today that Google killed Google Reader. The RSS reader with popular with a niche crowd, but never really expanded beyond it’s core use case. In the end it was ditched for more algorithmically driven ways to get the news such as Google News and various […]

Save the Serifs

Save the Serifs

Warning, this post is going to be about one of the most boring topics possible, font choice. The Washington Post reports the State Department has ordered a shift in font choice from Times New Roman to Calibri. The justification is that a serif font like Times New Roman (serifs are […]

Will Twitter Fail?

With recent management changes it seems a lot of employees have left the bird app. Turns out if you give people a choice between working long hours with little to no vision or three months severance pay, most people will take the pay. Employers often overestimate how much their employees […]

WTF is Section 230?

WTF is Section 230?

Recently there has been a lot of talk about “Section 230”. People either want it enforced, repealed, or reformed. Which is kind of ironic since most people talking about it have no clue what it is. So what is it? It’s actually a very short and easy to understand law […]

First impressions of Google+

First impressions of Google+

I just got Google + the other day, for all the hype I am currently a bit disappointed.  One issue of course is that I still know practically know one on it, which should change as they open their doors and I invest the time to find people again.  And some things […]