Beta test: ‘Silicon Valley’ is spot-on satire
HBO’s Silicon Valley is another series that examines competing views of maleness as it skewers the male-dominated culture and unchecked hubris of the tech industry.
Reviewer discretion: The Best TV of 2014
It’s that time of year. That magical time when we look back on a year of television and pass judgment one last time. What did we love? What did we hate? What did we want to set on fire?
Staying power: Vermonters test out Airbnb model
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [An edited version of this story appears in the Aug. 25, 2014, edition of the Rutland Herald.] San Francisco, 2008. Two roommates looking to make a few extra bucks, rent out space in their apartment to visitors in town for a design conference. Lacking actual beds, they procure air mattresses…
Daily Clicks — June 3, 2014
• The seven-day work week is so 20th century. Let’s get rid of it. (slate.com) Today, advances in automation, computation, and telecommunications have routinized the large-scale coordination problems that challenged America’s 20th-century economy. The knowledge economy runs differently, and there is no longer such an overwhelming imperative for large numbers of people and goods to…
The Plaid Crew 