iPhone photography show at Soho gallery

Posted on 01. Dec, 2011 by in Photography

Save the date: There’s an iPhoneography show in New York City, and I’ll be there for the opening on December 16. The exhibition will feature 200 photos, with more than 8,000 photos having been submitted. Interested in seeing your photo on the walls of the Soho Gallery for Digital Art? You can submit until December 10.

The column I didn’t write: “What Not to Buy Your Kids for the Holidays”

Posted on 30. Nov, 2011 by in Tech

Sometimes I have an idea for a column, and then I never get around to writing it. Maybe it’s because I’ve lost interest in the topic, or it seems dated — too many others have written about it — or I’ve realized there’s not enough there to make a column. Here’s one I planned to write and chose not to: “What Not to Buy Your Kids for the Holidays.”

Learning to play “Hallelujah” from a YouTube tutorial

Posted on 28. Nov, 2011 by in Miscellany

I’m a fan of YouTube tutorials for all sorts of learning, for everything from fishing to caring for a fire-bellied toad (yes, my son’s got one as a pet). And lately, I’ve been realizing how much fun it can be to learn (or try to learn) how to play songs with the help of YouTube [...]

1,000+ Microsoft Word docs, plain text, and a file format mess

Posted on 12. Aug, 2011 by in Tech, Writing

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been opening 1,000+ Word documents on my computer, one by one, and converting them from a very, very old Word format (“Microsoft Word 1.x-5.x”) to something I’ll actually be able to read and open on my computer. It’s a laborious process. When Microsoft “upgraded” to Office 2008 for the Mac, the company decided it was necessary to make it super-difficult to work with some older Word file formats.

Review: “The Book of Audacity”

Posted on 04. May, 2011 by in Tech

A couple of years ago, I was preparing an audio slideshow with the wonderful tool Slideshare. I needed an audio editor for the audio track, and I wasn’t sure where to start. I had very little experience with audio editing, and a colleague directed me to an open-source tool, Audacity. Though it took me a [...]

Harvard Business Review: The long history of information overload

Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by in Distracted Living, Tech

There’s a fascinating, if brief, article by Ann Blair at the Harvard Business Review website:  “Information Overload’s 2300-Year-Old History.”

Is Quora unfathomable? Or a cultural phenomenon?

Posted on 15. Mar, 2011 by in Tech

Quora has been the hot startup for a while now, and I’ve been meaning to write about it for my column. I finally did that, and here’s how I opened things: “Maybe it’s a sign of an internet startup’s likelihood of success that its initial attraction is entirely unfathomable — or even unexplainable — to [...]

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