Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Aggregation is plagiarismAggregation is plagiarism: I couldn’t help but aggregate (though not plagiarize) this link Jim Dalrymple aggregated to a post by a Mr. Joe Wilcox about how aggregation is, well, plagiarism. It’s true, now that you’ve read this you don’t need to read the original to know what …Monday, September 9, 2013
John Gruber on the convergence of smartphones and tablets John Gruber: Better, I think, not to treat smartphones and tablets as separate categories, but merely as different sizes of the same thing. I think he is absolutely right, but even a year ago I would have argued like a lunatic against that …Tuesday, March 19, 2013
‘Babble’ to consolidate Google’s chat tools under one brandGeek.com's Russell Holly: Google’s recent decision to block non-native XMPP requests is the first step towards building their own closed communications platform. In order to use Google’s chat service, especially the new …Wednesday, January 30, 2013
128 GB iPad perfect for pros?I still personally have no interest in a 128 GB iPad, but as John Gruber points out, some professionals prefer the tablet form factor generally, and the iPad specifically, but run out of space for the multimedia they use every day.Friday, October 5, 2012
HP CEO Meg Whitman calls it like it is: badMeg Whitman, as quoted by Sean Gallagher at Ars Technica: We aren’t as effective internally as we should be because of poor systems. We are not as competitive as we need to be in how we go to market because of our IT systems. We haven’t been using a …Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Gruber on “Amazon’s Play”John Gruber writes one of the most respected and prolific tech blogs on the web, Daring Fireball. Some people deride him as a blindly-worshipful Apple fanboy who delights in pointing out the failed attempts of other companies to copy Apple’s products and …Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Co-creator Jim Ray of Mule Design describes Evening Edition like this: It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. Last night, in between reading the news using various Android apps, I spotted a link to …