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DO WANT!, and other WWDC First Impressions
06.07.11 | Permalink | Comment?

Big news out of WWDC on Monday. I bet that, in the light of time, the iCloud announcement will be looked back on as comparably historic – and transformative from – the iMac and iPod announcements of a decade ago. I’ll write more on this later, but for now: a few thoughts. ●Lion at $30 [...]

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*Production* And Consumption define our [iPad] lives.
03.15.11 | Permalink | Comment?

iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests See here. Fairly staggering iPad 2 supremacy over three tests. I bet the unintuitive (but happy) results stem from a combination of two factors: The encoding is hardwareacceleratedon that new GPU silicon ( and the GPU is a whispy speed-demon) iOS’s overhead is so low [...]

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‘Touch’ the ARM
01.08.11 | Permalink | Comment?

With CES over, and some Apple announcement’s ahead, I totally missed the big picture as remarked upon by market analyst Horace Dediu. At this year’s CES two unthinkable things happened: The abandonment of Windows exclusivity by practically all of Microsoft’s OEM customers. The abandonment of Intel exclusivity by Microsoft for the next generation of Windows. [...]

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Def gonna try this
06.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Seems opposed to the underlying anachronistic charm of the Holga, but hey, for that price how can one go wrong.

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meh
06.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Not sure about this. I like the idea of the large-form capacitive interface enabling shmancy new use-cases, but I feel like she is a consumer gadget nerd 1st and a musician, like 106th. The bleep-boob sounds like a 15 year-old with Fruity-Loops. Something tell me she’s not going to be the next Tiësto . Still, not going [...]

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Once There Were Few. Soon, Many (and there can only be one)
05.18.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

(Hey Benji, pulling up your name yields some sweet data) If you’re not familiar with Wolframalpha, it’s defintely worth playing with. That said, I’m uncertain about their data objectivity problems.

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More like Maureen DOWDY, am I right? [More Twitter Talk]
04.22.09 | Permalink | 16 Comments

Sometime I think the only reason I stay at the forward margins of the adoption curve is to spite neurotic curmudgeons like Dowd. Biz Stone did nothing worse than to create a trivial little message service, and Dowd comes at him like a mean-spirited 9 year-old girl on the playground. ME: Did you know you [...]

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Intellectual Property and Culture, tech web toys
“Oh, the holes I punched in this raincoat? It’s a starter raincoat. Half price.”
04.21.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Microsoft confirms grossly shortsighted plans to release crippled Windows 7 SKU for netbooks and developing markets. I don’t mean to hate on MSFT again. In fact, I’m mostly just tired of spending energy, positive or negative, on that behemoth. I’m not alone. I’ve seen even among dedicated Mac-folks an optimism, a rooting-for-ness surrounding Windows 7. [...]

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You Jerks,
04.10.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Slate has run a piece for you: Do I Really Have To Join Twitter? What to do if you’re just not that into microblogging but don’t want to be left behind. Check it out here Money quote, and spot on: Much of what we do online has obvious analogues in the past: E-mail and IM [...]

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Twitter is down
04.02.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

“Twitter is dead, long live Twitter” I’m going to stop cross-posting my Twitter to these pages. I’m also going to try one last time to get you mugs to give the damned thing a shot. If you haven’t yet, you’re probably not going to. And given it’s current hyper-zealous embrace by an institutional media desperate [...]

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