Recent articles by Paul McNamara
January 23, 2012
A literal reading of this survey question leads inevitably to a pair of correct answers: absolutely yes and absolutely not.
December 19, 2011
Three congressional aides recently lost their jobs in part because they are worthless layabouts who drink on the job, but also because they are but the latest to forget that Twitter lives on the Internet and tweets - especially those badmouthing your boss -- are visible to one and all.
December 05, 2011
News last week that Sotheby's will auction off "The Contract That Founded Apple" - a partnership signed April 1, 1976 by the late Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne -- no doubt caught the eye of techie collectors and even sparked speculation that Apple might buy the document.
November 21, 2011
If the results of a recent telephone survey are to be taken at face value - a reasonably big if, in my opinion - roughly half of American adults believe that Facebook, Twitter and their ilk are harmful to the social development of today's young people.
November 07, 2011
A recent online posting of Richard Stallman's astonishingly long set of instructions for those who would hire him as an event speaker has spawned a parody website -- The Stallman Dialogues -- as well as some debate over the propriety of people constantly poking fun at the enigmatic and controversial founder of the Free Software Foundation.
November 02, 2011
Let's cut to the chase: This one is really about whether Facebook and the new kid on the block, Google+, should get to throw their considerable weight around by requiring that users post to their social-networking sites using real names.
November 02, 2011
When Google, Apple, Microsoft and the like bash each other about the corporate head and shoulders with their ever-expanding patent portfolios, no one worries that the legal-department combat will kill the companies' respective research and development operations.
October 24, 2011
According to a media report out of San Antonio, the man recently accused of planning to assassinate a Saudi diplomat in Washington, D.C., was not the sharpest tool in the box. However, if neighbor accounts are to be taken at face value, the same could be said of the FBI agents tasked with foiling his alleged plot.
October 10, 2011
Seemingly endless coverage of his passing last week offered the public an opportunity to learn everything it could ever want to know about Steve Jobs, Including what would appear to be his favorite photograph ... of himself.
September 26, 2011
Seemingly every day, the Google+ "suggestions" feature would implore me to "circle" (read: follow) the Google+ activities of Google CEO Larry Page, as more than 300,000 users had done already.