”Krauthammer was - like George Will - the sort of conservative pundit who largely does not, and perhaps cannot, emerge in today’s media landscape. That is to say, he took positions that were …
Ian Bogost asks Are Apple AirPods Any Good? This caught my eye:
”The earbuds won’t disappear, just like the smartphones haven’t. But they will become invisible as they become ubiquitous.
For all his skill in envisioning a future AirPod world and the social ramifications does he really think that Airpods won’t get smaller, maybe even just embedded?
"This kind of bottom-up, self-organised business network is what Trebor Scholz, a professor at the New School in New York, calls ‘platform cooperativism’. Take Uber, currently valued in the tens of …
"HKTaxi, a five-year-old taxi-hailing app founded by two college buddies, has managed to hold on to the Hong Kong market against the likes of Didi and Uber despite a fairly limited initial investment. …
“That’s a crock of shit. This isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it, exceeds the value of the company that creates it. Then it’s a platform.”
Bill Gates
Next time I am in a Church and we are all asked to kneel, I will stand, since it is now obvious that kneeling is a sign of disrespect … I mean the NFL are an authority on this … right?
I …
It’s a piece by SF mayoral candidate Jane Kim … calling the SF Chronicle out on their attempted hatchet job.
One of her questions back:
”Why didn’t you fact check the false assertions contained in these questions against publicly available information before contacting me or choosing to move forward with this story?”
Which resulted in them not runing with the story at all …. this is their response
Politico reporting how Seattle, San Francisco et al are too expensive to live in because highly paid tech people are arriving and pushing up the prices.
Those same tech people are very quick to preach that the Future of Work is virtual.
Is it that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander?
Great read - and spot on …
“And this leads to my second reaction, which is the deepest impatience and frustration with IndieWeb itself for having developed tools to very literally …
As I said … they will be back ….
”In recent months, executives at Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group, along with the Mercer family, have moved to created a new firm, Emerdata, based in …