What online news looked like on 9/11

With Twitter, Facebook and YouTube yet to come, newspapers and TV sites played pivotal role.

By Paul McNamara | 09 September, 2011 11:15

Tags: youtube, twitter, social networking, social media, online news, Facebook, 9/11

Torvalds talks about his brand new blog

We tend to think that everybody who's anybody in the tech world has a blog, right? Well, Linus Torvalds didn't have a blog, at least not until dipping his toe into the waters with this one -- "Linus' Blog" -- which launched last Thursday.

By Paul McNamara | 09 October, 2008 09:25

Tags: torvalds

Almost half of Google products -- including 4-year-old Gmail -- remain in beta: Why?

The question has been kicked around by the technology press for some time now: Why does Google keep products in beta for so long?

By Paul McNamara | 26 September, 2008 09:40

Tags: Google

Fooling Google News is this easy

I did it yesterday. Not that I was trying, mind you -- honestly, I wasn't. I did, however, predict it would happen, so I'm going to take this opportunity to gloat about that.

Firewall pioneer wanted a 'super-secure' blogging service ... so he's built his own

Bill Cheswick -- best known for writing "Firewalls and Internet Security" in 1994 and his earlier work at Bell Labs -- doesn't want to let commercial blogging software within hacking distance of his hardened Web server. A self-described Apple fanboy, Cheswick does want to host his own blogs, however, one about his job as lead member of the technical staff at AT&T Research and another about personal stuff, "if I can tell the difference."