February 2011
18 posts
January 2011
20 posts
Masters of the Obvious
Frank Rich:
Having sold itself in 2010 as the uncompromising champion of Tea Party-fueled fiscal austerity, the enhanced G.O.P. caucus arrived in Washington in 2011 to discover that most Americans prefer compromise to confrontation and favor balanced budgets in name only.
A CNN poll this month found that just one American in five regards deficit reduction as pressing enough to justify cuts...
How Important Is Steve Jobs to Apple's Product...
There’s always been a lot of guessing about Steve Jobs’s role in Apple’s product development. Does he come up with every idea himself? Does he oversee every hardware design, every software feature, every icon placement and color? Is he primarily a visionary that hands of most of the execution to others? Or is it something else?
Jobs gave a hint during his interview with Walt...
“It is as much Twitter’s fault that you have a short attention span as it is your...”
– How to Focus - A Healthy Information Diet
“Glenn Beck managed to lose roughly a million of his Fox News viewers in 2010,...”
– Glenn Beck’s Ratings Have Dropped by 50% in One Year
Google 'not happy' with Android Market purchase...
Having a Market full of apps is a very good thing for owners of Android handsets, but those owners buying few premium apps is a bad thing for developers who keep that Market full. That, of course, is also bad news for Google, which is making a variety of changes to appease devs, some of which Android Platform Manager Eric Chu outlined at the Inside Social Apps conference yesterday. After already...
“I am ecstatic to announce that Pixelmator grossed a gigantic $1 million on the...”
– Pixelmator Grosses $1 Million on the Mac App Store
“This is serious attention to detail. It’s not something people will show off to...”
– How the iPhone mail app decides when to show you new mail
Senator Al Franken: No joke, Comcast trying to... →
“Republicans have spent the better part of a year hammering against those...”
– Democrats Plan Attack on Republican Repeal Effort
Wow. A whole week.
