BuzzworthySeattlePI.com senior online producer Brian Chin's blog covers technology, politics and social trends -- plus stuff that's just too strange to make up.Exploring the arrow of time- May 31, 2008 Sean M. Carroll wrote a fascinating (and fun) piece for Scientific American: Does Time Run Backward in Other Universeshttp://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/140126.asp?source=rss Grease thieves- May 30, 2008 It's come to this: crooks are stealing used kitchen grease from restaurants.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/140077.asp?source=rss Irag just isn't news anymore- May 29, 2008 American Journalism Review delves into the many reasons why mainstream U.S. news media coverage of the war in Iraq has fallen precipitously. First, it sums up the background:http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139967.asp?source=rss Bigger patients create problems- May 29, 2008 More Americans are obese than ever -- a third of all adults, or roughly 72 million people, between 2005 and 2006, according to the CDC. And that's creating new problems for those in the business of transporting patients to hospitals.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139960.asp?source=rss Of search engines and senior moments- May 29, 2008 Your brain is a giant search engine, whose index gets less efficient and more subject to corruption as you age. That interesting analogy is drawn by one of the experts interviewed by WSJ health columnist Melinda Beck for her column on The Science of Senior Moments:http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139747.asp?source=rss Who's pulling videos from YouTube- May 28, 2008 YouTomb is a fascinating project from MIT Free Culture that chronicles just why videos are pulled from YouTube. The stated purpose is to track how many are taken down for alleged copyright violation.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139746.asp?source=rss Geeks ascendant- May 27, 2008 David Brook's New York Times column, The Alpha Geeks, is a fun examination of how the smart kids became cool and, in all seriousness, changed the world:http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139745.asp?source=rss When crowds get stupid- May 27, 2008 ReadWriteWeb has a great post revisiting how stupid the wisdom of crowds can be, jumping off of how an ambitious SitePoint e-book giveaway was torpedoed by one untrue comment on Digg.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139735.asp?source=rss Cringely on what ails IT- May 27, 2008 Robert X. Cringely's two most recent columns tackle interlinked subjects that I'm sure will resonate with many modern information workers: Why corporate (and government) IT departments often run so poorly, and how big-name IT consultancies like Gartner Inc. enable that dysfunction.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139734.asp?source=rss Brightcove now does our video- May 26, 2008 As you may have noticed, we've started using Brightcove to serve our videos.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/buzz/archives/139578.asp?source=rss |