August 25th, 2012

Coders Can’t Put Writers Out Of A Job Yet, But We’d Better Watch Our Backs

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Last week The New York Times ran a story by John Markoff about robots replacing human workers. Andrew McAfee, co-author of the excellent Race Against The Machine followed up with a post of his own. The gist: technology and automation lead to more job creation than job displacement in the past, but that may be changing.

Writing is one of the few areas that McAfee and his co-author Erik… → Read More

June 15th, 2011

Attn Sports Fans, Journalists, And Parents Of Young Athletes: GameChanger Is On Line Two

GameChanger Media, a startup founded in January 2009, is helping usher amateur sports into the digital age by offering a scorekeeping and stat-tracking app for mobile phones and tablets. Coaches or parents can keep score of baseball and softball games (GameChanger will soon be adding basketball and more) and track up to 150 different stats.

But, here’s what’s really interesting: GameChanger… → Read More