Tim Lee has a new blog. You should read it! Tim’s one of the smartest thinkers-about-technology that I know. But I have less and less time for RSS these days, and one of the worst consequences has been an inability to keep track of what he’s been writing about, spread as it was among a number of group blogs. I’m excited to have him publishing in a single place, at least for a while.
(Though he really shouldn’t declare thin clients a historical loser — like any hardware-loving geek I tend to come down on the fat client side of the debate, but what is the tech press’s beloved cloud computing other than thin client computing with HTML instead of X?).
Thanks for the link!
Re: thin clients. I wanted to come up with a quick list of examples that didn’t require too much explanation, and I had to reach a little for my third example. Still, I don’t think cloud computing is quite the same as thin clients because I think the thin client was always conceived as being tethered to a specific server. If Google starts selling Chrome machines that only talk to Google apps, that would be a thin client.