What I’ve been reading

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.

cpsrenewal.ca by Nick Charney: Mapping Internal Policy to the Hype Cycle – “I’ve been thinking a lot this week about how organizations issue policies to govern the use of new and emerging technologies.”
The BBC Micro can still teach us a lot – “The BBC Micro taught a generation of teenagers the joys of programming. It’s time to re-engineer such a revolution”
Amazon v. Apple « LRB blog – “Readers might be revelling in the lower prices they find on Amazon, but if the books they’re buying are ever less worth reading, it doesn’t seem much of a bargain.”
What is Dart? – O’Reilly Radar – “Dart [is] an open-source project that aims to enable developers to build more complex, highly performant apps for the modern web.”
MIT App Inventor – “To use App Inventor, you do not need to be a professional developer. This is because instead of writing code, you visually design the way the app looks and use blocks to specify the app’s behavior.”

You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.