• Apple and the 30% cut

    I always find it so adorable when I’m talking to someone about Apple’s strategy around the App Store model and they smirkingly explain that Apple’s…

  • Devil’s in the details indeed

    Meant to post this awhile back but I’ve been letting it simmer A post by Mark Vaske re: the Times’s article: The NYT’s article was…

  • Apple unveils iBooks Author

    Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring The clever thing about this is that Apple is essentially just making an…

  • Going Paperless

    I’ve decided to begin a new series on the joys of living a life devoid of dead trees. It’s an area I have intense passion…

  • Please, @evernote, get some more discipline!

    Once upon a time, there was this little company that developed a simple product that allowed people to take notes on a variety of platforms…

  • Thoughts on the future of I can’t has cheezburger

    Anyone else notice how in the tech world, when the “future” of something is being discussed, usually that future is death? And usually, the words…

  • On Closed Systems And Open Systems

    I just got done reading the Steve Jobs bio, a huge theme of which was this battle during Jobs’s life of open systems vs. closed…

  • Thoughts on #occupywallst

    When i was in college and the banking crisis was at its peak, I remember reading a comment on Digg that explained that my generation…

  • Thoughts on Richard Stallman and his Steve Jobs comment

    A couple days after the death of Steve Jobs Twitter was abuzz with a quote from Richard Stallman: As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of…

  • My own quick thoughts on iPhone 4S

    So, at about 10:30 this morning I got a nice little bundle of joy from UPS.  After a few hours of waiting for it to…