Blogonomics
Robert Lee Hotz is a science writer at The Wall Street Journal where he reports on new research and its impact on society. In a recent article, he said “In the beginning, there was the genome. Then came the foldome, the phenome and the connectome, quickly followed by the secretome, the otherome and the unknome.” His point […]
Where’s The Music?
Music has been one of my favorite things for as long as I can remember (see music category here in patrickWeb for stories). Where is my music? Some of it is recorded on circular pieces of vinyl stored in boxes in my attic. The music used to rotate at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute on […]
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
It was exciting news to learn that Curiosity touched down on Mars successfully. We will be even more dazzled in the days and weeks ahead as the stereoscopic and HD content streams from 345 million miles a way to our devices. So far, the coolest thing I have seen was when the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter […]
Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Correction
Thanks to Michael in Alameda, California for catching an error I made in the post about media companies fighting over fees. The company I referred to as Aero is Aereo. I use a website called phenom.aero, so I must have had aero on the brain. I have corrected the original posting. My apology goes out […]
Media Companies Fighting for Fees — Who is Fighting for Consumers?
Earlier this month, 20 million American homes that are subscribed to DirecTV, suddenly could no longer watch Nickelodeon, MTV or Comedy Central. Viacom owns the content and rents it to DirecTV for a fee. Their contract was about to expire and Viacom said DirecTV should pay 30% more. DirecTV said that based on their size, […]
