Posted on January 12th, 2012 by Chris Heath
Via DailyTech.com we get news that Chevy Volt Owners Averaging 1,000 Miles Between Gas Stops! One owner has averaged 547 mpg by relying more on the battery pack for propulsion
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Posted on October 3rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
This was a great keynote.
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Chris Heath
So Heathbar’s Crunch has been, and is going to be, a bit stagnant for a while. Until recently the site has primarily been a link blog, i.e., a collection of my favorite digg stories that I’ve found over the past years. On May 26th 2009 digg removed the ‘blog this’ functionality. I could hack up [...]
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Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Chris Heath
In Wilson, NC, residents, upset with their choices in regards to internet and cable decided create their own network and charge only enough to cover the costs. Now, TWC is lobbying against the service claiming they can’t compete. Need any more evidence to support Time Warner’s suckiness? read more | digg story
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Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Digg founder Kevin Rose sat down with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and poses the most popular questions as submitted and voted upon by the digg.com community. I think the best bits are in the first half where he talks about the changes that are coming and have already come to the music [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Chris Heath
These tech products and services may be forgotten, but they’re far from gone. How have these geezers managed to hang on for so long? read more | digg story
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Posted on March 25th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Esteemed online voices @LeoLaporte and @DaveWiner are sounding the alarm about Twitter’s increasing platform dominance. “It’s a very dangerous network because it’s all centralized,” Winer said. Both critics have installed their own smaller, open-source micro-messaging systems outside of Twitter’s domain, i.e., Evan Prodromou’s Laconica. read more | digg story
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Chris Heath
Please Stand By by Steve Gillmor Facebook is counting on the same relative inertia that Twitter has so carefully cultivated. The calculation is that 175 million people are less likely to move away from something than they are to wait and see what is going to happen. For the advanced user, an open Facebook stream [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Chris Heath
Stephen Wolfram announces that Wolfram Research will soon be releasing Wolfram|Alpha, a computational knowledge engine accessing trillions of pieces of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms. read more | digg story
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