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Is sexism in tech forever?
“Generational blindness: Is sexism in tech forever?” was a very hard column to write, literally months in the making. But it turned into something more thoughtful than had I rushed into ranting about...
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First, we kill all the futurists
Borne out of frustration from too many lame conference keynotes: It’s time to kill ‘futurists.’ Not individuals. The title. Over at GeekWire, I take on the frequently vapid job title of ‘futurist.’...
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Amazon: Edtech’s passive lurker arises
If you want to understand Amazon’s strategy in education with the Kindle, remember what Amazon is good at: delivering paid digital content. And then you might forget about who makes the tablet that...
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Phished, caught and embarassed
NSA. Target. Heartbleed. All are potential breaches of our personal data that are beyond our control. Then there’s individual stupidity. My stupidity, with my smartphone, and my personal data. Over at...
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Edtech entrepreneur wannabe? It’s crowded
Yes, I’ve been in education technology for two decades. Yes, it occasionally exasperates as much as it delights. And yes, all of that was front-and-center at last month’s ASU+GSV Education Innovation...
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Microsoft’s newest education strategy
Microsoft and education have an inconsistent and varied history. But Microsoft has waded into the education pool anew with its “Office Mix” add-in for PowerPoint. Over at GeekWire, I took an advance...
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Lies my Fitbit tells me
Those little tickles in the back of your mind that tell you a relationship may not be quite what you expected? I can no longer ignore them. They’re the lies my Fitbit tells me. Over at GeekWire, I...
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I see dead words: terms tech has left behind
Zombies walk among us. And you may encounter one when you open your mouth, if your talk references dated tech. Over at GeekWire, I take to task some common terminology by examining its linguistic and...
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Facebook, you are dead to me
It’s done. After eight years, I’m off Facebook. It’s not a move I made lightly. It has nothing to do with Facebook’s ongoing privacy challenges, or a recently reported (and admitted) psychological...
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Libraries tackle the Internet’s big lie
Call it the myth of the level playing field. Just put something on the web, and billions of [fill in the blank] will have access to it. Access, yes. But you won’t necessarily have their attention. Over...
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Digitally inept: Why I canceled the Seattle Times
Memo to newspapers aspiring to be “new media:” It’s not just cutting-and-pasting your journalism into a digital format. It’s the entire mobile-plus-digital subscriber experience. Over at GeekWire, I...
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Time ship’s first stop on 400-year journey
A 400-year “generation ship” is preparing to make its first stop to take on new artifacts … in Washington State. Over at GeekWire, I describe an unusual effort to preserve tech (and other) history in...
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Nuking Facebook: one month later, the fallout
I honestly had no idea so many had followed in my footsteps, even before I took my own first step. I dumped Facebook a month ago in utter frustration with the time waste its news feed had become. I was...
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Scandinavia vs. Seattle on everyday tech
Over ten days in three countries, I saw several slick technologies generally not seen in the States. There’s a lot Seattle, and the U.S., can learn from the tech used in Scandinavia and its...
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Why I won’t fully buy into Apple’s ecosystem
iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, Apply Pay or Apple Watch? None of the above, thank you. I once fully bought into Apple’s ecosystem. Never again. And there are several good reasons a tech-savvy consumer...
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Microsoft’s Minecraft education opportunity
Sure, $2.5 billion is a lot to pay for the maker of Minecraft. But what might it mean for Microsoft’s education strategy? Over at GeekWire, I do a quick back-of-the-envelope analysis of this week’s...
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Sharing 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...
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Google, Apple, Microsoft: Platform perceptions
As any good marketer will tell you, a strong brand is a double-edged sword. It gives you power in the market, but it also may limit what customers perceive — or willingly believe. That’s true in tech,...
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Alaska Airlines’ biometric boarding pass
What’s more convenient: Preparing, carrying and whipping out an airline boarding pass (paper or smartphone), or scanning a fingerprint? And which is more private? For air travel, concern about the...
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AIDS 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....
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