william.goodall

Commented on How I feel this morning
I subscribed to Shrook for years, and they just announced recently they were shutting down. Also http://corte.si/posts/socialmedia/rip-google-reader.html via John Gruber at Daring Fireball...
Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
The subject has got bigger and the teaching has moved up in abstraction. Low level programming is properly taught as electrical/electronic/information engineering. Software Engineering deals with the methodologies of large-scale programs of which OOP is a part. Windows, Mac OS,...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)