Your Leopard is Eating My Self-Esteem

November 15, 2007

An anthropologist would have a field day with the comments on my post yesterday (66 comments at the time of writing – that is freaky) about the problems I’ve had with installing Leopard. What’s been particularly striking is a) how many people seem to need to believe that I’m making stuff up (to generate traffic, […]

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Firefox is Back for the Mac

November 15, 2007

One of my favourite Windows experiences was using Firefox. What a superb product. When I switched to the Mac, I noticed right away that Apple’s browser Safari was far, far faster on the Mac than Firefox. The speed issues were obvious both on launching the app and in general use. So, with much regret, I […]

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I’ve Been Attacked by a Leopard

November 14, 2007

It’s now been about 2 weeks since I installed Apple’s Leopard on my two Macs, and without a doubt this upgrade is the worst OS upgrade experience I’ve ever had. I think that’s saying something – I survived Windows 98, however many iterations of XP there were, and fled to the Mac in part because […]

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“Mainstream journalism, blogs, exclusives and the techmeme effect”

November 13, 2007

Read Ethan on getting quality of content back into geek blogging. Yes, exactly. The lack of quality is getting tiresome.

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Kevin Martin on How to Save Newspapers

November 13, 2007

Kevin Martin, the Chair of the US FCC, has an op-ed in the NYT tying trauma in the newspaper market to the proposal before the FCC to allow ownership of both a newspaper and a broadcast TV or radio station in a single market, which he says ought to be permitted in large markets. Media […]

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“The New Environmental Centrists”

November 13, 2007

Interesting piece on much-needed shifts in the tone of the debate on how to respond to climate change.

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Exclusive?

November 11, 2007

Doesn’t Mashable mean “first“?

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“Schreiber sent letters to PM seven months ago”

November 10, 2007

Oops. That’s going to smart a little.

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“Edwards: I’m closer to Obama than to Clinton”

November 10, 2007

If you have to market your differences with the competition there’s a good chance that they exist only in your mind, or that your audience doesn’t really care.

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F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market – New York Times

November 9, 2007

From the Times: The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission officials said. Only in America you say? Pity.

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“You people are really nuts”

November 9, 2007

I love this story.

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Content is Not King

November 8, 2007

Content isn’t king, the customer is. And reaching out to your customers from behind a castle wall is asinine. For more on this, see, eg, the internet. Or talk to Larry.

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