John Gruber and Dan Benjamin’s weekly podcast, the Talk Show, has left the 5by5 network and moved to the Mule Radio Syndicate. From Gruber’s post announcing it: I am, uncharacteristically, genuinely excited to announce that my Oscar-, Emmy-, and Grammy-winning podcast, The Talk Show is now on
Arnold Kling (http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/thoughts_on_spa.html): Mauldin’s claim is that we are in what he calls the “endgame,” meaning that the Keynesian option of increasing government borrowing is no longer available to European countries. The only willing lenders are banks, which in
Before hiring someone, Zuckerberg used to take them on a hike: Several people who were hired this way say the strolls usually meandered along the trail — with Mr. Zuckerberg asking questions of the new recruit along the way — and ended atop a lookout. There, Mr. Zuckerberg would explain the terrain
Time Warner’s CEO hasn’t heard of AirPlay (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/time-warner-apple-tv-airplay/): Glenn A. Britt, the company’s chief executive, said in a group interview on Friday that the challenge for digital video was that there was no simple way
Matt Gemmell announced MGTileMenu today. He describes it as a “pop-up tile-based contextual menu.” Is anyone else doing such consistently high-quality, ambitious open source work for iOS as Matt Gemmell?
Simple’s iPhone app was just released. Simple, if you haven’t seen them, is a bank started by Alex Payne to be a bank people will love. I’ve been following the company for quite a while now, so I am excited to se them launching.
Ben Brooks on how to make writing on the web sustainable: I could sit here all day and talk about why I think the current model is broken, but that solves nothing. I personally only see one way forward: asking readers to support you. It’s the direct model, it’
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Tim Cook puts the iPad’s growth in perspective (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/ipad-growth-apple/): “Just two years after we shipped the initial iPad, we sold 67 million,” he said. “It took us 24 years to sell that many Macs, and five years for that
In response to an article by Ross Douthat, Julian Sanchez argues that invoking a creator, as Christianity does, doesn’t actually solve issues related to ethics—it simply defers them: I’ll go ahead and make the obvious point: Invoking God doesn’t actually get you very far in ethics,
After the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, NASA worked exhaustively to solve the issue before re-launching the program, and they believed they solved every possible issue before flying Discovery in 2005. Problem is, they didn’t solve the cause: What you probably don’t know is that a
Brent Schlender’s piece on his recently found audio tapes of interviews he did over the years with Steve Jobs: There was one other big lesson he learned from his Hollywood adventure: People remember stories more than products. “The technology we’ve been laboring on over the past 20 years