3 posts and columns on Sierras

BoomTown Turns TWiT Again and Talks About the Apple iPad Launch, Paywalls and Whither Embargoes

in News on April 5, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

BoomTown just made it through the snow-choked Donner Pass in the Sierras of Northern California, so excuse my laxity in posting this episode of “This Week in Tech,” the very fine Leo Laporte-helmed online chitchat tech show done on Sundays. It has a lot going on, including predictions about the Apple iPad launch, online content paywalls and a lively debate related to the Twitter fracas over embargoes.

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Apple Shoots New Ad for…Something New

in News on August 12, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

Apple has been up in the Sierras, shooting a new ad for, well, something new. The Sierra Sun reports that Apple employees have been spotted in Truckee, California, shooting an advertisement at a diner called Jax on the Tracks.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow… 3-D Digital Ski Slopes Even Cooler

in News on February 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Wishing I had had the foresight to head up to the Sierras in California before they finally got a ton of snow dumped on them this past week, I was fiddling around the Web looking for various ski sites as a way to approximate being there. And, like all things in mapping, the best way to see slopes is now in 3-D, the technology that is going to become more and more prevalent on the mostly flat Internet in the years ahead–and well beyond obvious applications.
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