Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People on Feb 20th, 2010 8 Comments »
‘Family Guy,’ Palin and the Limits of Laughter
This is an excellent piece by New York Times writer Dave Itzkoff.
Andrea Fay Friedman has her act together as does Gail Williamson, executive director of the Down Syndrome Association of Los Angeles:
“Within ‘Family Guy,’ the character was fully included, well-rounded, dynamic, not dealing with stereotypical Down syndrome issues,” [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software, iPad on Feb 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
Turf War at the New York Times: Who Will Control the iPad?
The New York Times has never gotten it right, ever. They have the best news in the business and the best brand and they cannot seem to figure out how to get money out of users.
It’s simple: do what Salon does. Charge a yearly [...]
Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Feb 7th, 2010 4 Comments »
Kottke on Chatroulette
Jason Kottke reviews a new video conferencing site called Chatroulette (chat roulette). Connect with random people all over the world, no moderation, no rules, just a video and voice connection with god knows who or what on the other end. The site has no appeal for me but Kottke’s review of [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Tech Stuff, Video, iPad on Feb 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
Apple’s iPad
Michael Arrington, Walter Mossberg, and David Carr discuss Apple’s new iPad on the Charlie Rose show.
Mossberg is brilliant but all of them, including him, miss the idea that it’s not just the form factor that’s a game changer, it’s the simplicity. The iPad is may be the first computer appliance and while that’s not [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad on Feb 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Former Microsoft employee Dick Brass on how the company has failed to innovate over the years.
Some of us have seen this pattern brewing at Microsoft for years. Couple this with the idea that the release of Apple’s iPad seems to be less about hardware, more about a statement that some (maybe many) users [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 3rd, 2010 3 Comments »
John Gruber’s Daring Fireball Gets Comments (Whether He Likes It or Not)
The influential site Daring Fireball, John Gruber’s web site that covers all things Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and Apple in general is a weblog with the commenting feature turned off. On popular sites like DF moderating comment threads can be a full time job and [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Politics, iPad on Feb 1st, 2010 2 Comments »
Why are you so terribly disappointing?
I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn’t have this or that expected feature, how it can’t do live video chat, doesn’t have Flash, the bezel is [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Steven Frank on the iPad
Steven takes us through a short history of computing explaining why some of us have a hard time making these leaps when companies like Apple come out with products that make large leaps rather than small incremental steps. Beautifully reasoned and written.
Posted in Opinion, People, iPad on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
Hands-on with the Apple iPad – it does make sense
Andy Inhatko’s first impressions of the iPad.
…the release of the iPad marks a classic battle between two philosophies:
Is it better to have a device that is loaded with bullet-pointable features?
Or is it better to have a device that has a shorter list of specs … but [...]
Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Opinion, People, iPad, iPhone on Jan 30th, 2010 No Comments »
Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism
Steve Lohr has written an excellent piece discussing the back story on how Jobs thinks and works.
…Apple products are known for being stylish, powerful and pleasing to use. They are edited products that cut through complexity, by consciously leaving things out — not cramming every feature that came into [...]
Posted in Events, Macintosh, Opinion, Tech Stuff, iPad, iPhone on Jan 28th, 2010 44 Comments »
I’ve been watching various reactions to Apple’s new iPad and it amazes me that people don’t learn from history that Steve Jobs is a visionary and visionaries take larger steps than the rest of us. This is one of the many things I admire about Jobs and Apple. Not all of these steps work out [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photography, Politics on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
I’m a photographer not a terrorist
Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer.
Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished [...]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Photojournalism on Jan 22nd, 2010 9 Comments »
Does Haiti’s Crisis Call for a New Photojournalism?
Michael David Murphy ponders a number of interesting questions for photojournalists. I think many of these questions overlap what makes me uncomfortable about street photography even under the best of circumstances.
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, Tech Stuff, Tools, iPhone on Jan 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Pen vs. Keyboard vs. Newton vs. Graffiti vs. Treo vs. iPhone
This is a great review. It’s not a scientific test but it explores these different methods of getting text into a device in a way that will help anyone think about the future of text encoding on a variety of devices in a broader way.
The [...]
Posted in Adventure, Opinion, Photo Gear, Travel on Dec 22nd, 2009 4 Comments »
The GF1 is a near perfect travel camera
Craig Mod reviews the Panasonic GF1 micro four thirds camera. He also has some nice video shot with it: POINT & SHOOT 720p HD.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Dec 16th, 2009 No Comments »
DP Review has just posted their Canon PowerShot G11 review.
They give it a mixed review, mostly positive.
I find the camera fine for it’s price point and place in the world of higher end point and shoot cameras. It’s almost perfect for what I use it for.
My only complaint (so far) is that the rear wheel [...]
Posted in Hiking, Opinion, Photo Gear on Nov 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Big Sensors, Shrinking Cameras
David Pogue reviews the Canon Powershot S90 and the Panasonic Lumix GF1. Pogue is always a great reviewer because he knows which technical details to include and which to leave out for most consumers.
I’ve been shooting my hikes with the Canon SD1200 IS which is an amazingly good small camera that costs [...]
Posted in Opinion, People, Politics, Video on Oct 20th, 2009 No Comments »
Frontline: The Warning
As head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission [CFTC], Brooksley Born became alarmed by the lack of oversight of the secretive, multitrillion-dollar over-the-counter derivatives market. Her attempts to regulate derivatives ran into fierce resistance from then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, then-Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and then-Deputy Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who prevailed upon Congress [...]
Posted in Food, Opinion on Oct 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Taste Test: Mustard
This is a great post about mustard brands, what’s in them, who likes them, and how they compare. Check out Beaver Mustard from Beaverton, Oregon. Cult following.
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Posted in Opinion, Social Software on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews
Oh dear, this is going to get complicated.
[via Derek Powazek]
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