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.
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 [...]
Giving My Leaf-Peeping Shots the Animoto Treatment
I finished converting all of the bracketed photos from my Columbus Day Weekend leaf-peeping trip with my parents into high-dynamic-range (HDR) fusion images. You can view the whole lot in this Flickr photoset. Now I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting the photos. Animoto, a cool New York-based startup, offers an interesting tool for making [...]
Breaking News on E-Books at the Boston Public Library, and a Special Performance by David Pogue
Got an unexpected scoop today while attending a session on the future of reading at the inaugural Boston Book Festival. Turns out that the Internet Archive and the One Laptop Per Child Foundation have been working behind the scenes for the last year to convert the 1.6 million public-domain books scanned by the Archive for [...]
The President Comes to Town to Talk Energy
I found out about President Obama’s visit to MIT on Thursday, after the White House had stopped giving out press invitations, so I didn’t get to see him at Kresge Auditorium. But I feel like the solution we came up with at Xconomy for covering the President’s visit was even better than sending a staff [...]
There Are Three of Me
While reading a Book of Odds essay on the frequency of various last names in the United States, I came across a link to a fun site called “How Many of Me?” If you enter your name, the site will search U.S. Census Bureau data to figure out how many people have your first name, [...]
Swedes Fall Under the Spell of the Empty Inbox
I got my fifteen minutes of fame this month—in Sweden, anyway. The folks at NyTeknik, the Swedish business and technology publication that is home to Xconomy’s favorite Swede, former Innovation Journalism fellow Erik Mellgren, published a piece about my declaration of “e-mail bankruptcy” in a column last February.
Here’s the article, by Elisabeth Vene, followed by [...]
New England, The HDR Edition
I spent the Columbus Day weekend traveling through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine with my parents. It was a classic leaf-peeping tour, proceeding counterclockwise from Boston to Killington, VT, to St. Johnsbury, VT, to Bethel, ME, via lots of back roads and scenic byways. The weather was overcast and drizzly on Friday and part of [...]
Facing Up to Facebook
My friend Brad King, a journalism professor at Ball State University, makes fun of me for being such a Web and gadget geek while at the same time shunning social networking tools like Facebook. He’s got a point. I’ve written a lot about Facebook, MySpace, and their predecessors, but I’ve never wholeheartedly joined in, the [...]
The Whole Story Behind the New Look at Travelswithrhody.net
The following is an excerpt from today’s World Wide Wade column at Xconomy:
Maybe you’d like to have a sleek, attractive blog or website for yourself or your business. Maybe you’ve looked around at some of the free blogging or lifestreaming platforms like Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, TypePad, and WordPress.com and you’ve been underwhelmed by the cookie-cutter [...]
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