Entries from April 2010

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Sign of the Times: A Floppy Disk Retrospective

With Sony ending production of the 3.5″ floppy disk next year, I wanted to put together this retrospective. Of specific note is that the iMac debuted commercially before the USB thumb drive did, so the release of the USB drive could be indirectly attributed to Apples design decisions; kind of neat. So without further ado: [...]

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Adobe Finally Gives Up on Apple

Well, it finally happened, after several years of trying, Adobe finally gave up on Flash for the iPhone, and has announced that they will be turning their undivided attention to supporting Android and other third party operating systems instead. This, announced yesterday, just hours after Apple issued a statement that it would no longer be [...]

Monday, April 26th, 2010

What is Digital Culture?

A lot of times I like to use videos to express and illustrate many of the points and ideas that our site talks about on a regular basis. Culture in general is such a broad topic, it’s fun to see other peoples perspectives on the subject. The definition of what is culture? is important, because [...]

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Bing and the Decision Engine Sub-Culture

I keep thinking about Microsoft’s search engine Bing, and wondering how it’s been stacking up in the last year or so. It debuted last year in June, and thus far its progress has been anything but extraordinary since it’s only maintaining a 3% adoption rate among search engine users. Still, the operating system has a [...]

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Apple Apps, Censorship, and A Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoonist

Political commentary has always been a big part of our culture and a significant mainstay on the world wide web. On the whole, this has been the case because the medium is so good at conveying information without the threat of censorship or retribution. That said, of recent note is the Apple App Stores rejection [...]