On the road, on deadline, without a space bar
The Lenovo Flex 4 laptop and its ill-fated keyboard. You never realize how much you depend on the smallest thing until it fails. Like a key on your laptop. Last month, I traveled to San Diego to attend...
View ArticleMedia/Tech in review: All media are digital, now
Disneyland’s Star Tours, kept current thanks to digital “new magic.” (Frank Catalano Photo) Media are plural. That may seem like an obvious grammatical observation. But when people talk about “the...
View ArticlePopcast recap: From 2001 to yodeling pickles
MoPOP Marvel curator Ben Saunders and Frank Catalano. (GeekWire Photo / Clare McGrane) It informally began with the Seattle Public Library and ended with the New York Public Library. In between, there...
View ArticleObservations of a gentleman journalist
Many people don’t have a clue how journalism works. Journalists may have less access to events and their newsmakers than the general public. All this for a career choice that has limited job options....
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned from writing tech columns for 25 years
In 1994, I got a call from an editor I knew at a Seattle-area newsweekly. Computers for personal use—and the companies that made them possible—were getting a lot of attention due to this newly...
View ArticleAwards don’t matter, until you get one
I will openly admit that yes, I’ve won two awards for my recent writing in GeekWire from the Society of Professional Journalists. And I’m delighted to have done so. This weekend, at the SPJ Gala held...
View ArticleHeld accountable… for my tech predictions
When dinosaurs ruled the internet. (Wikimedia Commons image / public domain) It can very much suck to go out on a limb. Especially if that limb is attached to the fast-growing tree of technology....
View ArticleSharing bad news on social media
In some respects, what our parents and grandparents thought of as the “Big C” is now the “little c.” Cancer survival rates, for a variety of reasons, have improved overall. The earlier detection of...
View ArticleAIDS to Ebola: Tech changes, rumors persist
As our communications technology has improved, what have we learned about avoiding the spread of medical misinformation and rumor in the three decades between AIDS and Ebola? Apparently, not enough....
View ArticleFive steps to deal with your geek child’s adulthood
In 2012, I wrote what is arguably the GeekWire column of which I’m most fond: “7 steps to raise a geek child.” It was borne out of my experiences raising my son and — not surprisingly — had echoes of...
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