May 2007

Starting my Giant Programming Project

by Mike Levin on May 29, 2007

This post on How to Learn Programming in the First Decade of the New Centry starts on the HitTail site, and moves here. So, the first and most important step in this entire endeavor is to make documenting with screenshots a painless and quick process. I would probably even like to include Camtasia or Snaps [...]

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New Tech Muks Up The Media

by Mike Levin on May 27, 2007

A Future for Newspapers — New technology is mucking up the media, and newspapers seem to be taking the brunt of it. Craigslist and eBay took away classified ad sales, direct advertisers are allocating budgets to search engines and circulation is receding faster than Bruce Willis’s hairline. Source: Wall Street Journal Author: Andy Kessler Link: [...]

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Taxes: the biggest threat to the Internet?

by Mike Levin on May 24, 2007

cnet-declan writes "State and local governments in Washington this week began an all-out lobbying push for the power to tax the Internet, according to our article at News.com. A new Senate bill would usher in Internet sales taxes, and the Federation of Tax Administrators (representing state tax collectors) advised senators at a hearing on Wednesday [...]

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This With ePaper Could Make a Killer Scala Player

by Mike Levin on May 24, 2007

aalobode sends us to an article up at BusinessWeek about Intel’s design for a new, ultra-thin laptop — almost as thin as a Razr — designed as a fashion accessory. Intel hopes to get the high end of the laptop market growing faster, and so they are particularly targeting female consumers with the new model. [...]

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