Hello, I'm Wade Roush and this is my personal blog. I'm a Boston-based journalist covering technology startups and digital media for Xconomy. Click the colorful squares to view my social-media feeds, or use the category links at left to explore my posts. This site is named after my loyal dog Rhody.
Introducing Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade
A side project that’s been occupying a lot of my weekend time lately has finally come to fruition. It’s an e-book version of the first 80 editions of my weekly Xconomy column World Wide Wade, which focuses on the intersection of digital media, Internet culture, entrepreneurship, and creativity. The book is called Pixel Nation: 80 [...]
It’s Tablet Day, But the Naysayers Elbow Their Way In
I’m reading, with amusement, a post today by Sam Gustin, a senior writer at Daily Finance, called “Apple Tablet: 10 Things We (Already) Hate About You.” It’s clever but misguided, and a few hours premature—let’s at least wait to see what Apple has been working on before we conclude that it’s worthless.
Gustin’s points and my [...]
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The Joys of Being Slashdotted
I submitted my “World Wide Wade” column today, Tablet Fever: How Apple Could Go Where No Computer Maker Has Gone Before, to Slashdot, the news aggregator site for nerds. (I count myself as one of those, by the way.) When Slashdot accepts and links to your articles, it can bring tens of thousands of page [...]
Pictures from an Alaskan Holiday
I journeyed to Alaska from December 18 to December 30 to spend the Christmas holiday with my family. My brother Jamie, his wife Jen, and their 2-year-old son Kieran (my nifty nephew) live in a beautiful house in the hills outside Fairbanks — which is about as far as Boston as they could live and [...]
Victorian Weddings and Sears, Roebuck Circa 1906: Digitizing and Systematizing My Stereo View Collection
I long owned a small set of antique stereo view cards (also called stereograph cards) that once belonged to my grandfather. There were about 18 cards altogether, plus a vintage stereoscope to view them with. But at the International Antiquarian Book Fair in Boston in 2008, I took the fateful step of buying a few [...]
Nourishing My Inner Architect with Google Building Maker
My fun digital project for this week was learning how to use Google Building Maker, a tool released last month that lets anyone model 3-D buildings using Google’s aerial photographic data, then submit the finished models for inclusion in Google Earth.
Google has already populated the urban cores of many cities in Google Earth with 3-D [...]
What Makes a Photo Look Real?
You know how listening to music on a friend’s pricey Bose headphones makes it harder to tolerate your tinny little speakers at home, or watching your favorite show on a high-definition screen spoils you for regular TV? I’m at a moment like that in the way I look at photographs. For the last few weeks, [...]
A Halloween Visit to Cambridge’s Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Ever since I moved back to the Boston area I try to make an annual autumn pilgrimage to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, a 178-year-old property that is, to my mind, the most beautiful burying place in the world. It’s really more like a carefully landscaped park that happens to be decorated with lots of weathered stonework. [...]
How Long Before E-Books Are “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”?
In a presentation at the Boston Book Festival last weekend, Jon Orwant, a Google engineer involved in the company’s Book Search project, made a memorable and, I thought, quite perceptive remark about the e-book business.
“Think about the books you have at home and how you organize them,” Orwant said. “Some of you may not organize [...]
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