Category: Link Log

The immortal writing around Chris Christie

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I’m linking to Alexandra Petri’s recent column in the Washington Post not because I want to draw attention to US politics just now (but really, America, really?). I’m linking because this is a gorgeous piece of writing about Chris Christie, the man who stood behind Donald Drumpf and simply… listened. It was not a thousand-yard stare. That would understate the vast and impenetrable distance it encompassed. He looked as if he had seen a ghost and the ghost had made him watch Mufasa die again. He had the eyes of a man who has looked into the heart of light, the

She’s got it where it counts

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Your exploration of the internet today will not be complete until you have enjoyed the artwork, the archaeology, and the accuracy, of Michael Heilemann’s look at the evolution of the Millennium Falcon. From George Lucas’s napkin sketch to the Objet D’art we all know today: The Falcon’s conceptual development has always intrigued me exactly because certain creative decisions don’t seem to easily fit together. I’ve researched this subject extensively over the course of years, and it’s only now I can finally start to eek out some sort of sensible process. With that in mind, this then is The Complete History of

The modern day grind of a blog writer

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TechCrunch’s John Biggs on what he has learned after writing 11,00 blog posts. There’s a lot here that I can relate to: Nobody cares. Nobody will read you. The only way to make them care is to keep doing it, day after day. Write 1,000 words a day. Don’t stop. This holds true in everything. Can you write more words per day? You can, but start at 1,000. Once you do that, day after day, people will notice. Then people will read. Then people will come back. Then you’ll gain a following. You probably won’t make any money but you

On Apple, security, the FBI, and positioning

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Bruce Schneier writes in the Washington Post on the case for Apple to stand firm against the FBI demand it cracks open the protection on an iPhone 5C: The policy implications are complicated. The FBI wants to set a precedent that tech companies will assist law enforcement in breaking their users’ security, and the technology community is afraid that the precedent will limit what sorts of security features it can offer customers. The FBI sees this as a privacy vs. security debate, while the tech community sees it as a security vs. surveillance debate. Privacy versus security, plus security versus

Another end of the line for MixRadio

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Part of me thinks that a service that has died so any times just to be brought back to life again can never be considered ‘dead-dead’, but the announcement today that MixRadio is be closed feels much more terminal. Picked up by LINE from Microsoft (who picked it up from the Nokia Lumia team, who picked it up from the Nokia Music project, who picked it up from Ovi Music, who picked it up from the Nokia 5310, who picked it up from a Series 40 test app…), MixRadio is a personalised radio station that worked… offline listening, artist seeding,