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HBO should release all of G-O-T
This is one of those moments when you look back 10 years later and say this is the point where HBO should have crushed the competition before it can get too big. The competition being Netflix and...
View ArticleA new job description
I started pushing links to followers shortly after I started blogging. First there was the Frontier News page, then that migrated to the home page of scripting.com, then we came up with RSS, and...
View ArticlePodcasting 2.0
In 2001, when I designed the protocols for podcasting, we were using a different Internet: Net connections were so slow that the click-wait problem was interfering with people using big media objects,...
View ArticleThis is a test...
For the next sixty seconds this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Podcasting System. Had this been an actual podcast you would have been instructed to do whatever it is you do when you...
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It's their world we just live in it
Something funny happens when I put my iPhone 6 and my Nexus 6 together on my desk (charging them up). The iPhone tries to pay the Nexus using ApplePay. I just realized how funny this is. Why does the...
View ArticleSoftware and free hardware
I just saw that JJ Abrams has an Apple Watch. You know there was a time when I would have had that. When Apple gave early access to hardware to developers who created software for their platform. I...
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Introducing Podcatch.com
I was bored with my podcasts. I subscribed to a dozen different feeds, but was only listening to two shows. Sometimes I'd leave the house with nothing interesting on my phone. I muddled along, thinking...
View ArticleThe future of journalism
There's a future-of-journalism conference in Austin. I'd like to insert a recipe, if I can, for the future of journalism. Start by solving problems. In all likelihood the geography you serve (if you...
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T-Mobile travails
I was taking an early morning walk in Manhattan this morning when the fourth wall popped with T-Mobile. I was dropped out of The Matrix and smack in the mire of post-millennial mobile access. My...
View ArticleThe new WTC elevator
One of the things I love about NYC history is the layering and the continuity. It's how I think software should evolve too. We rip up our software cities too easily, because we don't like the...
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The open tech of Podcatch.com
On Friday, as you may know, I made Podcatch.com public. It's a quick way to find a great podcast to listen to, now. Without subscribing. The list of feeds is curated, it originated from the feeds my...
View Article5-minute podcast
I was talking with Chris Lydon about the idea of a 5-minute podcast. Then Doc Searls asked a question that I thought could easily be answered in 5. I was right, but I rambled too much and it turned...
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Should Boston bid on the Olympics?
When I was chatting with Chris earlier today, the subject of the Olympics and Boston came up. Should Boston bid? My two cents Boston should not try to host the Olympics, in fact no one should. With...
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My Apple Watch podcast
I've made a dozen or more visits to the Apple Store website hoping to buy an Apple Watch and each time coming up empty and as confused as ever. This 12-minute podcast tells the story. BTW, here's a...
View ArticleI would have hired Doug Engelbart
I've heard it said, and thought myself, that of course I wouldn't have hired a 50-something developer when I was running my 20-something startup. But then I just realized that if Doug Engelbart had...
View ArticleGreat "Blue Sky" platforms
The hairball Our current platform is a mess: CSS. HTML. JavaScript. A server. Think of how much you have to learn to become "full stack" in this world. At least four different syntaxes, and a CSS...
View ArticleScoble asks about the Facebook API
Over on Facebook, my friend Robert Scoble asked how I feel about changes Facebook is making in developer access to the social graph. It was such an interesting question that I did an 8-minute podcast...
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"Reproducible"
A few weeks back, Doc posted a mysterious message to our support list, saying that blank headlines were showing up in his outline, and wanted to know if we knew what the problem was. This is the kind...
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