May 2012
6 posts
Open Letter to John Gruber About TheTalkShowGate...
John,
As a longtime fan of yours, I first want to thank you for Daring Fireball. It has become the success that it is because of your high standards. You expect quality and professionalism from your own work and from the work of others, and it shows. When you discover errors, you are swift to correct them. You are quick to respond “I don’t know” when an answer isn’t...
Tony Gruenwald on Season 5 of Mad Men
My good pal Tony and I had a good email exchange about this season of Mad Men. I was getting worried that with all the strong flavors they were flirting with the shark. Tony thinks otherwise:
In the last ten years or so, good dramas are not considered good dramas unless they have an overreaching season long story arc. So now when we sit down to watch our favorite show, we are essentially...
Dan Benjamin Responds to 5by5 Fans About The Talk... →
Heartfelt, genuine, and open: classic Dan Benjamin.
What I Wish John Gruber Had Written When He Left...
Dear fans of The Talk Show,
Beginning with this week’s show, The Talk Show will be distributed by my friends at the Mule Radio Network. Dan Benjamin will no longer be co-hosting the show with me. I want to thank you all for supporting us during The Talk Show’s time at 5by5. The show will be different without Dan, but I think its best days are still yet to come. I understand that this...
April 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
7 posts
Cutting the Middle Class in Two →
Chris Espinoza on the 99 Percent:
Those who argue that a flat tax is a fair tax miss this mathematical fact. A flat tax accelerates the fall into poverty of the lower middle class by increasing fixed expenses so that a surplus is impossible, and it falls into the noise of the fixed expenses of the wealthy and simply shifts the floor, but not the steepness, of the logarithmic wealth curve. It...
View From Nowhere →
Jay Rosen:
In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position “impartial.” Second, it’s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and...
Chillmark on mHealth 2011 →
But what these start-ups really need is to simply focus on addressing the age old question: ‘What’s in it for me?’ These companies need to stop the whining and do their homework defining the value proposition for not just the consumer, or just the doctor, but think more broadly of the impact their solution may have on the delivery of care, and how each stakeholder may benefit. Unfortunately, as...
November 2011
14 posts
Valletta Ventures: The price of a messy codebase:... →
sneakattackphilosophy:
vallettaventures:
Any LaTeX user with an iPad has had the same thought: I want to use my favourite document creation system on my favourite device. Despite everything I am about to say about the LaTeX codebase, there is nothing like it for composing beautiful documents, and the iPad is the most beautiful platform…
Sad Bernard.
EU Officials Conclude Water Might Not Prevent... →
Another WNA find: a three-year investigation by a group of 21 scientists concludes that there’s not enough evidence to prove that drinking water prevents dehydration, so bottled water companies will be prohibited by law from claiming otherwise. Said a Member of European Parliament, “This is stupidity writ large. The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart, and yet here they are: highly-paid,...
“So, our serious Republican [Romney] is committed on ideological grounds to...”
– Krugman, at his best.
“Nurse practitioners are not physician extenders. We are highly skilled and...”
– Karen Roush, for AJN
“Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful,...”
– Former Apple CEO John Sculley On The Future Of Medical Technology And Health Care’s Killer App (via wnstn)
Steven Frank's dream notes app? →
stevenf:
Here’s a rough spec of what I think would comprise my ultimate note keeping environment. I’m writing this down in the hopes that someone will implement it, as I don’t have sufficient spare time. “Have you tried…?” Yes, I’ve tried that app. It didn’t do at least one of the following things. …
Open Letter to The New Yorker's iPad App...
The iPad app for the New Yorker could be great, but as it is now, it isn’t.
First, the Newsstand version of the app has been very disappointing. The app is not downloading new content automatically. I’ve updated my iPad to a fresh copy of iOS 5. I’ve downloaded and redownloaded the New Yorker app several times. I’ve ensured that “download content...
October 2011
3 posts
How to Merge MobileMe Data with an Apple ID and...
Note: It’s a damn shame that I even have to post this. MobileMe customers pay $99 bucks a year or more because they value having their data sync across all their devices, and yet they’re the ones who will experience the most headache when trying to upgrade to iCloud! C’mon, Apple, get real!
If you’re like me, you have stored all of your contacts, calendars, and bookmarks...
September 2011
34 posts
Kotsko on Attacking Hypocrisy →
Hence liberals instinctively gravitate toward accusations of hypocrisy. “They say they care about the deficit, yet they passed unfunded tax cuts.” “They say they want to reduce the number of abortions, but they oppose birth control.” “They say they’re pro-life, yet they embrace the death penalty.” “They say they want the government off people’s back, until it’s a matter of regulating sexual...
