If you’re creating a “digital time capsule”, it’s best not to make it an application. There’s a lesson here for everyone rushing into application development for online media.
A slice of 1996 online culture, for £4 from Oxfam. There’s a CD-ROM, which I fully intend to put online if I can find something that reads it.
Steven Levy’s book “The Perfect Thing” is all about the genesis of the iPod. It is, itself, a lovely thing.
Report: Valve's Portal 2 to appear on Mac
Valve, a major game developer for Windows and consoles, has all but confirmed that its popular back catalog and successful Steam marketplace are coming to the Mac. Now details have emerged that at…
This is causing much excitement around our house. Portal was played through till the end, one of the few games that Kim’s actually done so with.
Sure, some people told us we deserved to die in a fire. But that’s the Internet!
—Ken Fisher on Ars Technica’s experiment to temporarily block content for people running ad-blockers (via marco)
Unlink Your Feeds: A Manifesto.
Listen.
You need to unlink your feeds.
I understand why you did it. I’ve made the same mistake myself. But it’s hurting your friends, it’s hurting you, and it’s hurting the Internet. You need to stop.
You need to stop automatically dumping your feeds from one account into another.
Look, I know…
Rupert is off the reservation again. This is always a possibility when News Corp.’s quarterly earnings reports are issued and Murdoch gets on a conference call with analysts. Sometimes his people can get him to focus and rehearse and to answer questions in a disciplined way. But other times, when he’s feeling cocky or angry or jet-legged or as though he is the one and only, he won’t prepare—and then God only knows what he’s going to say. Which is largely the way the company is run: Let’s see what comes out of Rupert’s mouth.
Worst iPad reporting ever
This article by Jonathan Zittrain is why it’s wise not to let law professors write about technology:
If Apple is the gatekeeper to a device’s uses, the governments of the world need knock on the…
As I told everyone at the Town Hall meeting, Google wants to kill the iPhone. They absolutely do. Luckily for us, they have no idea how to create a user interface, and even less idea how to do customer service. Also, despite what you’ve heard, they can’t write code for shit, and Android is a sloppy fucking mess.
—Fake Steve often tells The Truth.
