7 posts and columns on snow

Viral Video: Return From Snowpocalypse

in News on January 3, 2011 at 1:05 am PT

BoomTown barely made it out of snow prison on the East coast last week on vacation, but the fine CGI work over at New Media Animation pretty much says it all.

Snowpocalypse? Good Thing There’s an App for That.

in Mobile on December 27, 2010 at 10:18 pm PT

A smartphone won’t help de-ice the plane, but stranded travelers have been increasingly using their devices to cope with blizzard-related changes in travel plans. Traffic to the mobile Web sites of various travel companies is up 200 percent, according to Usablenet, which powers a number of airline and hotel Web sites.

When You Wish Upon a Week Off (and Yet Here I Am at Disney World)

in News on December 27, 2010 at 12:41 am PT

To say BoomTown is not a person who likes to hear when I arrive at a vacation spot, “Have a magical day,” is an understatement. Yet, here I am for the rest of the week at Disney World in Florida. So, for the next few days, it’s a small world after all, instead of just a smaller Yahoo via layoffs and exec departures.

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.

Weekend Update 02.13.10–The Hot Mess Edition

in News on February 13, 2010 at 10:14 pm PT

Rogue waves aren’t completely unheard of during surfing competitions in Northern California, but a foot of snow in Dallas? About as likely as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz grilling Kara Swisher in front of a packed auditorium. All right, it was a cafeteria packed with Yahoo employees, but still.

How to Report Snow

in Media on February 10, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

No need to watch current coverage of today’s weather. Last month’s coverage of Britain’s weather will suffice.

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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