Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
I could have just said “Pearltrees have launched their iPad app” and pointed out they bought me a croissant in 2009, but isn’t it more interesting to ask why the next step after a desktop browser app is Apple’s tablet? Based in Paris and launched around the world less than two years ago, Pearltrees launched their iPad application today. Given the user base of the iPad, it’s one of the smartest moves Pearltrees could have made. The discussion is over on Forbes.
Back in olden times, people would get up and complain about the weather. Now that we have evolved and do everything else online, the weather is always the same – slow internet connection and not enough cute pictures of cats. What is there to moan about now? So thank you Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, you’ve given the internet something better than rain. You’ve given us something to moan about every… single… day… Tip of the hat to GD, if I could ever find the link on Facebook again. Must remember to moan about that as well.
Cory Doctorow: But, as with any arts venture and any entrepreneurial effort, the realistic odds are that you’ll be one of the people whose efforts fail to shake the world. The realistic odds are that you’ll earn more working a regular job in an office than you will trying to invent fictional worlds and then invent new ways of selling them. There’s only one good reason to do that kind of thing: because it makes you sane and whole and happy.
…Apple has sold ten times as many iPads as the three biggest competing devices combined have shipped, which we’ve already established is a very generous way to represent device success. The iPad is clearly dominating the category in a massive way. When you make the category, make the rules, and tell the public what they want, of course you’ll dominate it.
Bill Wyman (no, of NPR, not the Stones) lays it al out in depth over on Slate. The trouble facing the movie industry right now is the same one the music industry had to confront 10 years ago. This is the summing-up sentence I referred to above.The easiest and most convenient way to see the movies or TV shows you want is to get them illegally… Again, to belabor the obvious: The illegal version isn’t just free. It’s better. Update: This is really a "blog post to which the answer is no", but Tom Sizemore points out on Twitter the
Is there any reason why a remake of True Grit would seem like a good idea? Didn’t think so. I guess the only saving grace is that it’s not The Searchers 2010. There’s only one Jeff Bridges film I want to see come December, and it’s not this one
