Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil
Presentations largely stand or fall on the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content. If your numbers are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. If your words or images are not on point,...
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Compare Google Suggest Results with Hint.fm
Hint.fm is a wonderful time-suck, offering comparisons of Google suggest results. Enlightening!
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Alan Parsons on Digital Recordings
“Why would anyone take recording on an iPad seriously? Of course it’s a great gimmick — perfect for the likes of Gorillaz. I think music lessons are fine on computers, iPads included. But an iPad...
View ArticleUnderstanding Apple’s endgame
“Technology companies these days are scared to death to make a product that varies too far from Apple does because they fear being left behind. Some companies even go so far as to say that Apple’s...
View ArticleScripting News: Improving tech criticism
At the end of this year I’m thinking about the need for proper criticism of software, alongside other arts like theater, movies, music, books, travel, food and architecture. It’s finally time to stop...
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Winer’s “Get the Tech Back in Tech”
Take a moment if you haven’t already to read Dave Winer’s latest piece at Wired, “Get the Tech Back in Tech.” Winer outlines why, in a time when large corporations control so much of our data through...
View ArticleWhy People Don’t Go to SXSW
On the subject of tech conferences and why / when they’re worth going to, Michael at Cruftbox has listed a few reasons why he won’t travel to Austin this year for SXSW, making the argument that it’s...
View ArticleWhy you can’t trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry – Anil Dash
“We need a tech industry that values history, perspective, and a long-term view. Today, we don’t have that.”
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“littleBits is an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun.” But they had me at “no soldering”. We got Dash something along...
View ArticleAn acquisition is always a failure
“But a visionary is an implementer of visions, not an acquirer of dollars. And if you consider yourself a visionary, the only honest response to your own acquisition is to admit your failure, dust...
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