CARVIEW |
Biography
Books
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blog
Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Dale blogs at:
https://radar.oreilly.com
If the tech industry and its associated conferences have any serious notions about reducing our impact on the environment, one small step would be to minimize the amount of schwag distributed at tradeshows, most of which ends up in... read more
A Life in Science: Paul Lauterbur
Paul Lauterbur, the father of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, died in March. MRI machines are widely used to examine physical tissue in the brain and other parts of the body. The Economist has a well-written obituary of Lauterbur that... read more
Or The Best Way To Sell "Whoosh Boom Spat" is DIY Promotion You write a book and find a publisher. Here's what you think the publisher is going to do for you to promote the book: take out ads, do... read more
Make-offs: DIY indie innovations
May 20 2010
With Maker Faire Bay Area scheduled for this weekend, we take a look at makers who are using low-cost, open-source tools to create sophisticated projects and experiments. read moreWhat would technology do best for learning?
May 12 2010
An evolving set of best practices could offer a big lift for educational technology projects. Established best practices could define standards of quality and help others avoid pitfalls. Toward that end, here's a collection of thoughts intended to help those developing their own projects. read moreApril 20 2010
Take a few minutes to watch Dan Meyer (@ddmeyer) talk about a makeover of the math curriculum in this TedxNYED session. Dan does a brilliant job of explaining why textbooks fail, why they don't help kids learn, why they should do less. I particularly like Dan's deconstruction of textbooks and… read moreMarch 29 2010
Dale Dougherty says that for the iPad to be something different, it must not be just a delivery platform but a creative one. It needs to offer professionals and amateurs an opportunity to create a unique experience with interactive media. read moreA Prism for Jolicloud: Web-Centric Desktop Apps
February 26 2010
I recently bought a netbook and installed Jolicloud, a Linux/Ubuntu distro designed as a replacement for, or companion to, Windows. Jolicloud was a revelation, something fresh and new in the seemingly snail-paced world of desktop computing. The bold idea of Jolicloud is that the browser is the operating system. It's… read moreDecember 04 2009
In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Papert's 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert saw that computers should not be an "auxiliary" aid to… read moreGeorge Dyson's "Among the Machines" in Mountain View
October 19 2009
Science historian, author and Make columnist George Dyson will give a lecture tonight on the "Evolution of Technology: Darwin Among the Machines." The talk will be at 7 p.m. at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Mountain View. The talk is part of a series hosted… read moreA More Public Role for Public Broadcasting: Education
October 09 2009
Imagine a broadcast network in America that was dedicated to education, where the best educators had the opportunity to produce its programming, and where individuals as well as institutions could develop a new genre of wide-ranging educational programs? Educational programming could elevate the role of teaching in our culture and… read moreMay 30 2009
Maker Faire is here again, our fourth annual event in the Bay Area. Once again, you just won't believe how much there is to see and do at Maker Faire. Makers were busy today setting up on Friday. In the morning, we had 400 kids visit the fairgrounds for a… read moreMarch 02 2009
Are iPods changing our perception of music? Are the sounds of MP3s the music we like to hear most? Jonathan Berger, professor of music at Stanford, was on a panel with me at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View, CA on Saturday. Berger's… read moreCapturing the Knowledge of Mill-Wrights
February 04 2009
Driving through Napa over the weekend, I saw a roadsign that said "Milling Today" at the Old Bale Grist Mill. I had to stop and take a look. The restored mill has a 36' "overshot" waterwheel so called because water pours on top of the wheel, directed there by a… read moreJanuary 31 2009
If you watch sports, as many will do this with the Super Bowl on Sunday, you know that games can change direction. Something happens and momentum changes quite suddenly. A team that was piling up scores suddenly becomes tentative and defensive, as was the case with the Arizona Cardinals in… read moreDecember 24 2008
Dare I say this on O'Reilly Radar? I admire Bill Gates. If I had a vote for Person of the Year, Gates would get mine. Let me explain why. This year, Gates made an important and potentially difficult transition at age 52, leaving Microsoft as CEO and devoting more of… read moreDecember 10 2008
Open the door and smiley-face carolers sing a song that you can customize and send to others. That's the emoticarolers concept, worked up by Jason Striegel, our Hackszine editor, who leads the development side of things for Colle+McVoy in Minneapolis. The team created this clever holiday "text-to-sing" promotion for Yahoo… read moreNovember 11 2008
I wrote this piece about a month ago as the Welcome for Make: 16, which will be on the newsstand soon. As I write this, there is panic on Wall Street despite Washington’s $700 billion rescue attempt. The crisis is not contained by U.S. borders, but extends to Europe and… read moreAugust 27 2008
Microsoft has received a patent on a "new and improved" Page-Up and Page-Down system. Timothy D. Sellers et al. was awarded the patent on August 19, 2008 for a "Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments." Abstract for United States Patent 7,415,666 A method and system in… read moreJune 19 2008
This past weekend I watched a superhero fall to incredible lows and rise to unbelievable heights. I wasn't watching one of the manufactured Marvel superheroes on the big screen. I was watching Tiger Woods live on TV. I was watching him create one of the most compelling stories ever in… read moreApril 28 2008
Today, in most schools, science is taught as a body of acquired knowledge, but not as much as a set of tools and practices that were used to discover that knowledge and expand upon it. Students are expected to learn from lectures and textbooks, not labs with hands-on learning and… read moreApril 01 2008
(This entry itself had problems after posting and it took a day to fix. A good entry gone bad.) My sister, Doreen, who is seldom on the bleeding edge of technology, bought a Kindle in January and by March she was sending it back. My Kindle was a clunker. I… read moreMarch 22 2008
Our town, Sebastopol, had passed a resolution in November to permit a local Internet provider to provide public wireless access. This week, fourteen people showed up at a City Council meeting to make the claim that wireless caused health problems... read moreI Make... (Maker Faire Bay Area May 3-4)
March 15 2008
If you wonder what Maker Faire is all about, check out this video, created by eric michael berg, a video intern working with us out of New York. He came to Maker Faire Austin and put together this simple but... read moreFebruary 23 2008
Last May, I wrote about the City of Berkeley closing down The Shipyard. A communal workspace for artists and alternative techies, The Shipyard was organized by Jim Mason; it was built as stacks of shipping containers. After the shutdown notice... read moreFebruary 08 2008
"The telegraph made it possible for people in different places to read the same news." -- Valerie Komor We take news for granted. At the Money:Tech Conference today, speakers were talking about how to deal with real-time newsfeeds, which continues... read moreJanuary 22 2008
The comic "Over the Hedge" featured Make in its January 21st strip. Thanks to Poncho Alarcon of Monterrey, Mexico who spotted the turtle named Verne reading Make. I'm working on a piece for the next issue of Make called "Slow... read moreJanuary 19 2008
While looking at a library book scanned by Google, I found this image, the hand behind the scanner revealed.... read moreJanuary 16 2008
Macworld is about the excitement of the arrival of new "cargo," to use Jared Diamond's term from Guns, Germs, and Steel. As Diamond wrote, people with more resources see the world differently. It shapes our world view. The things we... read moreDecember 18 2007
Last week's Interaction Design class presentations at Stanford made me laugh. Scott Klemmer's CS147 class, a mix of undergrads and graduate students, demonstrated applications for mobile devices, which featured Nokia N95 (supplied by Nokia) and the iPhone. Each of the... read moreDecember 10 2007
Several items about books: Stephen Levy writes in his Newsweek cover story on the Kindle and Jeff Bezos: "When making mental lists of the most whiz-bangy technological creations in our lives, [...] we may overlook an object that is superbly... read moreDecember 01 2007
Amazon's personal electronic reader cannot go it alone. Here is an idea for the Kindle to become part of the social media landscape. Let's call it Kindle's Family and Friends plan. Similar to a few cell phone plans, let a... read moreWeb 2.0 and Advertising: Do We See Eye to Eye?
November 28 2007
Ad agencies will admit to the limits of traditional media, saying, okay, maybe we don't know consumers the way we ought to but this new technology is going to give us all that.... Advertisers and their agencies are drooling that they will deliver highly targeted advertising messages that audiences will… read moreOctober 16 2007
I wonder if among the entrepreneurs and vc's gathering for the feeding frenzy that's become Web 2.0 Summit, there are people thinking about what Web 2.0 means for education. Facebook grew out of a university, and they were able to... read moreLocal Recycle & Reuse Hits A Bureaucratic Roadblock
September 14 2007
Let's imagine that you set up a non-profit to recycle electronics and divert computers from going directly into landfills or otherwise being destroyed by a grinder. You look for ways to refurbish these components and possibly recombine them into functional... read moreJournalism is Burning Or How Breaking News is Broken
September 01 2007
On a day when Alan Mutter told us at Radar about his blog post on the ten-year low for ad sales in print newspapers, I had the thought that most of a newspaper is a waste of print. Much of... read moreAugust 14 2007
Giving a talk at NI Week organized by National Instruments in Austin, TX, Chris Anderson of Wired and author of "The Long Tail" spoke about DIY and open source hardware, according to an EETimes story. I think he's pointing at... read moreMicrosoft Reaches Settlement on EOLAS Patent
August 01 2007
The retrial of the EOLAS '906 patent lawsuit against Microsoft was to have begun on Monday in Chicago. I learned yesterday that Microsoft had reached an agreement to settle the case with EOLAS so I would not be called to... read moreMay 14 2007
The Shipyard in Berkeley, a collection of shipping containers and a collective for artists and tinkerers, was given three days by the city of Berkeley to "vacate and abate" or face fines of $2500/day. The Shipyard has a history of... read moreMay 01 2007
Makezine.com editor Phil Torrone writes: A long long time ago I made a hacky toaster that burned images, it was for a pitch to holiday inn - pre-2000, all blank stares. Years later, alpha geeks made all sorts of toast... read moreApril 30 2007
This weekend, we held a ReMake event at ACCRC in Berkeley, giving makers coming to Maker Faire a chance to look for a few interesting things to play with. The previous weekend, ACCRC had held an Earth Day electronics collection,... read moreJanuary 28 2007
One of the most amazing riffs I've ever heard at a conference was created by Martin Varsavksy, the Argentinian-born, Madrid-based entreprenuer behind FON, who was moderater of a panel titled "How To Be Good?" at the DLD Conference in Munich... read moreDecember 16 2006
If Shirky is now writing for ValleyWag, I'll take it as a sign that the gossip-blog might be trying to do something other than sniping. In his "A Story Too Good To Check," Shirky takes the press to task for... read moreDecember 16 2006
All of us at Make are proud to have been selected to be in the National Design Triennial at the Smithsonian's National Design Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt in New York City. The exhibition opened last Friday to quite a crowd. Make's... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
Multimedia
Webcast: Automakers 2.0 - A Maker Faire Webcast
May 19, 2010
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free What would it mean to write a Hello, Car program? What kind of applications might interact with a networked automobile? What happens when the car becomes a platform for open innovation? It just might...
Buy Now and Save
Use discount code: OPC10

All orders over $29.95 qualify for free shipping within the US. See details.

![]() ©2010, O'Reilly Media, Inc. (707) 827-7000 / (800) 998-9938 All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing on oreilly.com are the property of their respective owners. |
About O'Reilly
Academic Solutions Authors Contacts Customer Service Jobs Newsletters O'Reilly Labs Press Room Privacy Policy RSS Feeds Terms of Service User Groups Writing for O'Reilly |
Content Archive Business Technology Computer Technology Microsoft Mobile Network Operating System Digital Photography Programming Software Web Web Design |
More O'Reilly Sites
O'Reilly Radar Ignite Tools of Change for Publishing Digital Media Inside iPhone makezine.com craftzine.com hackszine.com perl.com xml.com Partner Sites InsideRIA java.net O'Reilly Insights on Forbes.com |