"Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major record label has hit: more than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like....
PC Magazine to ditch print edition, go online-only. Stunning at first glance, given the big, fat, money-gusher that the mag once was, but less so upon consideration; this is content that's perfect for the....
Randall Stross defines the gender gap in computer science well in this NYT article, but he doesn't do much to explain it. That's understandable. When we wrote last year about the closely-related problem ....
Joe Trippi told us before the election that a superior ground game could be worth 2-3% at the polls to a presidential campaign. TechPresident's Nancy Scola called that estimate "more art than science," whi....
The manifesto for an RNC tech strategy I mentioned this morning follows a call by one of its signatories, Patrick Ruffini, for a new conservative blogosphere: Most conservative blogs are still stuck in 200....
Nick Carr: "How can the cloud absorb what we're already doing? is the question that's being asked, and answering it means grappling with such fraught issues as security, reliability, interoperability, and ....
More from my conversation with Bruce Schneier (other elements of our conversation are here). Know It All: Have we seen the death of privacy? Bruce Schneier: Scott McNealy made the famous comment -- you ha....
Barack Obama was elected for many reasons, but it seems clear that his campaign organization played an important role in his victory, and in some places perhaps a decisive one. That campaign organization....
"For many viewers, the 2008 election has become a kind of hybrid in which the dividing line between online and off, broadcast and cable, pop culture and civic culture, has been all but obliterated." Intere....
This blog is supposed to have a futuristic bent, so this time of year can be fun: It's when everyone starts unleashing their "predictions" of IT trends for the coming year. IT services firm CSC is out wi....
I asked security guru Bruce Schneier about those troublesome voting machines and the mindset that foists them upon us. Schneier: The security of voting machines points to two big issues. The first one is....
There's some interesting deep-think in Tim O'Reilly's post about cloud computing, and also a nice neat summary of what people really mean when they talk about the cloud (briefly, Utility computing, e.g., A....
The Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy has published a report disclosing security vulnerabilities that researchers have detected in Sequoia's AVC Advantage voting machine. Accord....
Florida county tests Internet voting. I am not optimistic. Sure, a controlled experiment involving a few hundred voters might work well, and at that scale the impact of mistakes would likely be minimal. ....
Mark Herman has one of the more interesting jobs in the consulting world. The vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton designs and moderates wargames for business executives. His new book, Wargaming for Lea....