Arguably, there may well have never been such a thing as ultimate geek power; fine.
But I remember a slew of fluff pieces back in the first bubble that were all about the geeks’ role in the economy. More specifically, about how software programmers had suddenly taken over the kingdom and how they were, for the […]

Today’s news that the New York Times was going to stop charging for Times Select left me sad and pondering why I felt that way.
The discussion of whether software, music, services, etc, ought to be free and the implications of that have been much discussed (hilariously by Elton John in the Sun) and I’m not […]