April 2009
March 2009
Why did it take me so long to discover questions?
“It’s a clever yet straightforward sell, especially for buyers in economic...”
– Advertising: Microsoft’s Cute-Girl Ad Only Clever Until the Next Price War
“The marvel of Wikipedia — and cities — is that all the intercourse and spiritual...”
– Wikipedia - Exploring Fact City - NYTimes.com
“At any rate, the Mythbusters crew replaced all the windows that same day and the...”
– To reiterate. Boom: Mythbusters Explosion Breaks Windows, Tosses Women Off Couches
“True to supply-and-demand economics, the price of music downloads will be geared...”
– The LA Times fails to note that the supply part of “supply-and-demand” economics goes out the window when you’re dealing with digital distribution. Really it’s more like “monopolize the market and demand” economics. Nice reporting there guys. If papers go under...
Leaks: Tesla CEO in Digital Witch Hunt →
Nick Denton and Owen Thomas are the muckrakers for the new millennia.
“Or perhaps the Conficker botnet’s masters have something more Machiavellian in...”
– The Conficker Worm: April Fool’s Joke or Unthinkable Disaster? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Twuh-Oh
Potential Employee: Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
Cisco: Who is the hiring manager. I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web.
“I made the site paid because I was ignorant. I didn’t know any better. I just...”
– Peter Kann, former CEO of Dow Jones explaining why WSJ.com started out as a pay site.
“Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing...”
– GOP predicts doomsday if Obama budget passed. Cause, you know, the whole War on Terror, Dept. of Homeland Security, and massive troop deployment abroad was a TOTALLY different strain on the budget.
“My girlfriend Kestrin has a copy of a new age visualization book called Ask And...”
– Jonathan Grubb: 4 Books That Changed My Life (this year) (via nickdouglas)
“Bereft of his ability to fly and with nowhere to go, a courageous bat climbed...”
– John Herman, Gizmodo: Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious Death Imaginable
“The timing of the OS 3.0 launch during the summer appears as though it will...”
– Apple’s new iPhone OS 3.0 could crash Palm Pre’s release party
“Twitter.com is a top 250 site that reaches over 6.1 million U.S. monthly...”
– Quantcast’s headline for Twitter. This sentence, more than any, confirms my believe that Twitter is caught in a feedback loop that will explode the second Web 2.0 technology becomes mainstream and is no longer talked about for the sake of itself.
Roku Player to Soon Search Amazon, Add 10 Sources... →
Roku smartly is making sure the interface is smooth and easy before opening the content floodgates. Smart company.
Coke Has No Idea How It Got 3.3 Million Fans On... →
Their top two hypothesis are:
Sorg picked a really nice picture: a high-res shot of a glistening aluminium can.
Sorg and Jedrzejewski have influential friends; “but we can’t measure that,” says Michael.
Apple TV to be a Game Machine →
Believe it. The writing is on the wall, or rather, the balance sheet of Apple’s financials.
Will We Have Copy & Paste Tomorrow?
As forecast/described by Kevin Rose, via Gizmodo: Cut and paste in 3.0
Users magnify or double tap a word to bring up cut and paste
Pinch “boundaries” to select word(s); Rose called them “copy boundaries”
Then you get option to cut, paste or copy
Does anybody else read that and realized exactly why there is not cut and paste on theiPhone? It’s messy!
You have to...
“It’s this damn culture of ours that makes us choose Bests. Why can’t...”
– Steve