Well, The Daily failed. It wasn’t all that fun while it lasted. And it didn’t last all that long. If everyone had known that it was going to cost $25 million a year to run, it probably would have been
“So just to be clear, I wouldn’t call that a process. Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a…
… Zip drives ate floppies. CD s ate Zips. DVD s ate CD s. SD cards ate film. LCD s ate CRT s. Telephony ate telegraphy. Text messaging ate talking. Tablets are eating our paper … Imagine a table: Hund
For the past decade, I’ve tried every new social media product to come along but I find myself returning to the two giants of the industry most often: Twitter and Facebook. I’m optimistic and delighted every time I open up Twitter on my browser, while Facebook is something I only click on once or…
Here is my Larry Hagman story. Get comfy. This will take a while. The year is 1980 and I am the Head Writer on Pink Lady , an infamous variety series that was forced by high-level corporate interests
What follows is lifted from the comments to my previous post on this issue. I’m reposting it simply because as I was engaged in responding to this particular comment, I realized — even to my own surprise — how close the Petraeus imbroglio corresponds to the the tragic story of my old friend and…
Peter Chernin had this to say during his days as President of News Corp, owners of MySpace, in 2006:
If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether its YouTube, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really…
SINCE the 1980s your correspondent has attended roughly 100 technology conferences. His recollection of such events blurs into one endless, cavernous convention centre attached to a hotel of identical
I was on an airplane last night as the election was decided. As the plane landed after midnight on the East Coast, I confess that my hand was shaking as I turned on my phone for the news. I did not wa
It seems that the conventional wisdom right now is that liberals need an answer to the rising success of conservative media pundits, in order to get their message out. I thought about it a bit, and all false modesty aside, I'd be perfect for the job. I'm quick with a comeback, an unabashed liberal,…
Siri is a promise. A promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user, a new paradigm in our evolving relationship with machines. Siri could change Apple’s fortunes like iTunes and App Store…or end up being like the useful-but-inessential FaceTime or the…
Apple is eventually doomed. Yes, the most valuable company on the planet will slowly fade into stagnant mediocrity. It will be replaced by something that they will not predict and they will not see co
From Tim Cook’s letter announcing the latest reorganization at Apple last week: Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his longtime role as the leader of Industrial Design. Jony has an incredible design aesthetic and has been the…
Despite the prominent addition of sharing features in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion, the company's concept of "sharing" is actually a narrow one. And in an increasingly interconnected era—when people are spending more and more time sharing words, images, files, and more with other people and among a…
The strangest thing about appearing on Jeopardy is just how not strange it is. There's no green screen or artificial bits to it. The set is precisely what you see in the broadcast program, with all the lighting and game board and whatnot. It's like stepping into the television set to play. It's more…
By chance, I watched that debate a few miles from where many of those iPads, Macs, and iPhones are made in southern China. The following day -- today, Thursday, China time -- I was inside the most famous of these outsourcing centers. This is the Foxconn "campus" in the Longhua area of Shenzhen,…
Try #2: Farhad Manjoo's original iPhone 5 "review" was horrible. His mea culpa is a good read: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/10/iphone_5_review_marveling_at_the_existence_of_the_greatest_phone_ever_made_.html
January 22, 1939 Assistant Professor Henry “Indiana” Jones Jr. Department of Anthropology Chapman Hall 227B Marshall College Dr. Jones: As chairman of the Committee on Promotion and Tenure, I regret t
Not surprisingly, some of the most prominent examples of peer-network success have emerged online, in the global encyclopedia of Wikipedia or the arts-funding site Kickstarter. But they are also flourishing in localities around the world.
Our patent system is a mess. It's a fount of expensive litigation that allows aging companies to linger around by bullying their more innovative competitors in court.
PORTLAND, Ore. — An effort to build a sleek aluminum charging dock for the iPhone generated fervor online when it was announced last December. The project’s creators raised close to $1.5 million through Kickstarter, a crowdfunding Web site, and promised to start shipping their Elevation Dock in…
09.24. 2012 Botoșani! Botoșani! Botoșani! What poet can sing your praises? Whose arms are thick enough to heft that industrial-strength lyre? Whose inner eye can see past your grit and mud, your packs
The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World How Nerf Became the World's Best Purveyor of Big Guns for Kids Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Gla
My girlfriend Diane met Stephanie last October at a free makeup event for women with cancer called Look Good Feel Better. It was one of the curious get-togethers you get invited to when you are ill. Women showed up, got a make-up kit, and listened to some instruction in how to use it, including…
The ostensible purpose of XOXO was to connect people who make things (art, words, industrial design, crafts, and much more) with the new technological platforms for distributing stuff, whether as atom
In Portland last weekend, the first-ever XOXO Festival offered a heartwarming affirmation for 2012: despite the noise of profiteers, ranting analysts, and social media douchebags that saturate the internet, the most powerfully innovative force in modern culture comes from artists, hackers, and…
The Internet wasn’t always this way.
I think it’s hard to work on the web for over a decade and not have some nostalgia for the way it used to be. Nobody knew what they were doing but we had youth, naïveté, ignorance, and optimism on our side. The medium was not yet fully formed and we were still…
To understand how air-force navigator Tyler Stark ended up in a thornbush in the Libyan desert in March 2011, one must understand what it’s like to be president of the United States—and this president in particular. Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force…
That’s the thing — when people say they’re disappointed about the new iPhone, what they’re really saying is that they’re disappointed it doesn’t look that much different from previous version(s). But again, not only is that true, Apple went out of their way to make sure that was the case.
Hi, everyone. I’m Michael Grunwald from TIME Magazine, and Josh has generously invited me to blog this week about my new book, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era. It’s the s
The GOP Is Coming After Your Birth Control (Even If They Won’t Admit It) Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron is under fire for signaling on an anti-abortion survey he would restrict access to contraception if
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