David Pogue, a writer for the NY Times on their excellent Technology page, writes a piece about all this fancy-techie “social media” stuff: What it is, what some of the key players are, and so forth.
I highly recommend it for a simple overall primer on the whole thing; he’s made a very good “50 thousand [...]

Wow, this is sorta scary…well, for some of us, anyway.
The NY Times tech section had an interesting article the other day where they followed around this family who are heavy tech users. The insights were most interesting - how heavy tech use actually changes your brain. No real conclusion if this is good or bad, [...]

This looks like a pretty neat place to visit. And what a nice recovery from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano!
Follow the link to a pretty cool video on Vimeo.
Inspired by Iceland
The music is Emiliana Torrini. (No, I haven’t heard of her either…)

OK, this isn’t technically tech related, but…it’s pretty cool anyhow.
Messier 13 (M13) is a globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules. Astronomy Picture of the Day - that great site that NASA has up - has a stunning pic of M13 the other day. This is a must see. Well, if you like that sort [...]

USA Today has an excellent Tech section, and the May 11, 2010 edition has a pretty accurate recap of the available SaaS apps out there, and what SaaS even is. The article sticks to the “Small Business” part of the discussion.
We’re pretty invested in SaaS here at Terrapin Networks, with hosted MS Exchange and SharePoint [...]

The Detroit Free Press had an article in the May 5 edition about the latest state auction for mineral rights that brought in more millions of $$ than anyone expected. Could be good for the Northern Michigan economy?
A well in northern Missaukee County was what brought on most of the excitement, apparently.
I think everyone up here [...]

Here is a great thing for when you are traveling - a Hotspot finder. Stick an address in, or an airport code, and find out quickly what is in the area. It is put out by the “WiFi Alliance”.
Find it here

In my usual taste for all things astronomy, there has been a lot of buzz recently about the 20th anniversary of the Hubble Telescope.

Among many tech sites, eWeek had a terrific slide show on some Hubble favorites. The picture of Saturn on slide 5 is particularly beautiful.
See it here
And NASA has a timeline of the [...]

Whoda thunk it? Copiers can also be a risk for information security.
Most business copiers these days use a hard drive - when you make a copy, the image is put on the hard drive, on the copier, then printed out on the pages (copies). The idea here is that you can put in a great [...]

This is pretty nifty. Google has taken their Streetview camera - the ones that give those great shots that you can follow down a particular street - and have moved them out to ski slopes, starting with the upcoming Winter Olympics.
This link will take you to the Alpine skiing sites, and there are links for [...]