Links for 01-02-2014

• It’s Not a Church, It’s Just an Apple Store | Re/code - "Attention fanboys and fangirls: Your favorite tech hardware, software and services are not religious objects. And the companies that make them aren’t cults or faiths. They are capitalist enterprises, out to make a profit, grab market share, and, if they can, make products you will buy."
• Top 10 Cloud Platforms of 2013 - A year in review - YourStory.com
• The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review
• Processors That Work Like Brains Will Accelerate Artificial Intelligence | MIT Technology Review
• Today in Tech History – Jan. 1, 2014 | Tom Merritt .com - RT @RiCHi: MT @acedtect: 75 years ago today, Hewlett and Packard founded HP to build oscillators and eventually WebOS.
• Visit to the World's Fair of 2014
• Spherification | Molecular Recipes
• On The Information and How We Operate – jessica lessin - RT @jason_pontin: On the other hand, "these women" isn't a whole hell of a lot better: while less reductive it's *more* patronizing:
• Science and technology: No Moore? | The Economist - "However, it looks as though Moore’s law will not survive 2014. Chipmakers such as IBM, Intel and TSMC, a Taiwanese giant, will probably manage to cut transistor size in half at least a couple more times. The problem, analysts reckon, is that beyond 2014 shrinkages will no longer cut transistors’ cost."
• How to Escape the Community-College Trap - Ann Hulbert - The Atlantic - The thing that I found most interesting about this article is that it really reinforces how MOOCs are great for self-motivated learners but not for those "underserved" by traditional education.
• Get Lost in These 19 Fascinating Maps
• Running Zork in DOS on Chrome while offline? Yup, you can do that — Tech News and Analysis - RT @rUv: Running Zork in DOS on Chrome while offline? Yup, you can do that
• A Snapshot of the Camera’s History | TIME.com - RT @BarbaraKirk: A Snapshot of the Camera’s History |
• 15 Predictions for Developers and the Cloud in 2014 - RT @RedHatNews: 15 Predictions for Developers and the Cloud in 2014
• Forbes is latest old media for sale – with the help of the New York Times | Michael Wolff | Comment is free | theguardian.com - "But it became a model of an old-line media company that would do anything – anything – to survive. In the manner of the Huffington Post, it built a stable of free contributors, bores and semi-literates and inveterate self-promoters who nevertheless provide ever-more search links to the site. Outdoing even Buzzfeed, the native advertising ne plus ultra, Forbes, without restraint, became an open bazaar for selling its space to fake content poseurs. "
• Michael Wolff on Digital Media in 2014: 'Pretty Damn Bleak' | Digiday - "We’ve now built a business on the basis of being almost completely staffed by young people who are paid nothing. That is the business now. So, relatively speaking, it’s pretty damn bleak. The news business has lost, like, 50 percent in four or five years."
• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: "Zombie Ideas" (Ed-Tech Ideas That Refuse to Die Even Though We Know They're Monstrous)
• The year of no s**t Sherlock - The Ed Techie
• Adrian Cockcroft's Blog: Velocity and Volume - Speed Wins - Keynote at Flowcon
• Top Spots for Special Occasions: Boston by Jennifer Che