http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/?rsssource=1 Minnesota Public Radio's technology blog with Jon Gordon Copyright 2008, Minnesota Public Radio Fri, 09 May 2008 12:29:46 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jon Gordon Being a public radio guy, it occurred to me today that an on-air fundraiser would be a fun and interesting model for boosting the number of people who follow me on Twitter. So this morning on Twitter I announced a... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/05/my_twitter_drive_meets_goal.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/05/my_twitter_drive_meets_goal.shtml Fri, 09 May 2008 12:29:46 CDT Jon Gordon Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the St. Paul Pioneer Press made a nice little video of a recent iChat session about the Chumby. Here it is. I really have to get a better webcam. The MacBook's built-in iSight camera is not cutting... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/chumby_choochoo_keeps_arollin.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/chumby_choochoo_keeps_arollin.shtml Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:08:04 CDT Jon Gordon I've spent the past few days testing Chumby, a grapefruit-sized, Linux-based widget display device encased in a beanbag. In this interview (RealAudio - MP3 - iTunes) , I compare notes with Dwight Silverman, who previously wrote about Chumby here and... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/sorry_chumby_cute_is_not_enoug.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/sorry_chumby_cute_is_not_enoug.shtml Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:03 CDT Jon Gordon SmartyPig is a Web site designed to help people save money for specific goals, like buying an iPhone or a new digital TV. It includes a social element that lets friends and family contribute to an account and monitor a... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/saving_money_the_web_20_way.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/saving_money_the_web_20_way.shtml Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:57:08 CDT Jon Gordon Foreign governments and manufacturers working together could sabotage American computers and computer networks by selling hardware implanted with malicious processors, according to a story in the April issue of Popular Mechanics. Security experts warn that as supply chains become more... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/counterfeit_chips_raise_hackin.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/counterfeit_chips_raise_hackin.shtml Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:15:56 CDT Jon Gordon Scientists have devised a new, high-resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels that's 10 times more accurate than current maps. The maps show CO2 emissions at 100 times more detail than was available before. The new... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/a_more_accurate_map_of_greenho.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/04/a_more_accurate_map_of_greenho.shtml Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:47:16 CDT Jon Gordon Wired.com features a ">photo essay called "Unlikely Places Where Wired Pioneers had their Eureka! Moments." Included is Arthur Fry, 3M researcher who saw the light in the choir loft at North Presbyterian Church in North St. Paul. "I was singing... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/the_unlikely_place_where_posti.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/the_unlikely_place_where_posti.shtml Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:26:34 CDT Jon Gordon In the New Yorker, Eric Alterman has a thoughtful and depressing ">essay on the decline of newspapers in the U.S. Describing the Huffington Post-style sites that are usurping newspapers, Alterman writes And so we are about to enter a fractured,... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/american_life_after_newsapers.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/american_life_after_newsapers.shtml Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:28:05 CDT Jon Gordon Today's Future Tense (RealAudio - MP3 - iTunes) featured an interview with Mary Flanagan of Tiltfactor Lab, which researches and promotes games designed to promote social and political change. Just as some filmmakers, novelists, and poets seek to fight social... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/games_for_changing_the_world.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/games_for_changing_the_world.shtml Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:41:56 CDT Jon Gordon Security expert Bruce Schneier reacts to research that shows heart defibrilators are theoretically open to mischievous hackers: The risks are there, but the benefits of these devices are much greater. The point of this research isn't to help people hack... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/hacking_into_human_hearts.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/hacking_into_human_hearts.shtml Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:27:53 CDT Jon Gordon Today's Future Tense featured an interview with Kai Huang, founder and president of Red Octane, the company that makes Guitar Hero. I caught up with him at SXSW Interactive. In addition to the radio interview, I shot this short video... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_guitar_hero.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_guitar_hero.shtml Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:29:52 CDT Jon Gordon If 2007's South by Southwest Internet conference will be remembered as the year microblogging service Twitter broke out, this year's event event will be linked to an audience revolt during a keynote event Sunday by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/miniscandal_over_zuckerberg_ke.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/miniscandal_over_zuckerberg_ke.shtml Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:16:48 CDT Jon Gordon TaulPaul has a funny parody of the Internet-fame obsessed South by Southwest conference. The video mentions several of the Internet-famous, including Jason Calacanis, Rex Sorgatz, Veronica Belmont, Ryan Block and iJustine.... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/forget_sxsw_the_hot_ticket_is.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/forget_sxsw_the_hot_ticket_is.shtml Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:25:26 CDT Jon Gordon At the 2008 SXSWi conference, Lee Shupp of consulting firm Cheskin participated in a panel of the future of interface design. After the panel, I asked him about the frontiers of interaction between humans and machines. His answer: extropians. According... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_extropians.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_extropians.shtml Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:46:10 CDT Jon Gordon Among those at the technology portion of the South by Southwest conference in Austin this week are social media/blogger guy Greg Swan, Web developer Gillian Reynolds and blogger/Twitterer Erica Mauter We manged to find 10 minutes together for a quick... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_the_minnesotans.shtml?rsssource=1 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/wavlength/archive/2008/03/sxswi_dispatch_the_minnesotans.shtml Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:13:03 CDT