Day: January 13, 2005
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CNETAsia dropping print journals
No fun to read that CNET Networks is shutting down some print journals in Asia. Today Online has the story: CNet Asia closes down print arm to focus on online portal. IN A move that has shaken up the tech news industry, CNet Asia will shut down its entire print arm and focus on its…
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filtered, not stirred
While I’m fond of time here at clock, other metaphors and words strike a chord in my non-musical brain. One of them is filter, so I have to enjoy filtered, the blog of Mark Jones, Deputy Managing Director at IDG Communications in Australia. Then, when Mark writes a post titled 2005: A year of attention…
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Now that’s important information
Via Tomalak’s Realm, I found this history of the tab at Technology Review, which gives a bit of background on card catalogs as part of the article “Keeping Tabs.” The tab was the idea of a young man named James Newton Gunn (1867š1927), who started using file cards to achieve savings in cost accounting while…