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Selling Comics, Technology, and the Future

I wrote something this morning on Facebook in response to a Seattle Times article on Seeing a retail future beyond Amazon Go: I can relate to so much in this article. I run a comic shop as a side business and love small retail. Zanadu Comics was a real inspiration

Politics

For the Debaters: What Shall We Do About the Tech Careening Our Way? - The New York Times

For the Debaters: What Shall We Do About the Tech Careening Our Way? - The New York TimesThis is so spot on. Someone please ask a question like this during the debates. Everyone claims they’re going to repair our economy, and yet, none of them ever talk seriously about

Mobile

Daring Fireball: Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and Marketing

Daring Fireball: Apple Music and Coherent Product Design and MarketingSo agree with this quote. Rings true for me with current product I'm working on at work: If the product isn't logical and consistent throughout, how can it be marketed in a logical and consistent way?

Technology

Finished Christmas decorations yesterday. AppleTV was kind enough to update its screen savers to match. #christmas #holidays #appletv...

Finished Christmas decorations yesterday. AppleTV was kind enough to update its screen savers to match. #christmas #holidays #appletv #technology #home

Technology

Jammies all day. Too much coffee, and work that never ends fill today's video blog.

Technology

The dawn of artificial intelligence | The Economist

The dawn of artificial intelligence | The EconomistPretty good piece on AI, which also has some good suggestions on how to carefully handle the tech. Reading this also makes me wonder how free-market-at-all-cost believers would react to government regulation of AI systems.

Technology

The Netflix Tech Blog: Tracking down the Villains: Outlier Detection at Netflix

The Netflix Tech Blog: Tracking down the Villains: Outlier Detection at NetflixBonus points for tech transparency to Netflix (and it's an interesting reading on cluster analysis). Bonus, bonus points for working Daredevil analogies into the post.

Technology

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America - The Atlantic

The Secret Startup That Saved the Worst Website in America - The AtlanticA truly great read on the nerds who saved healthcare.gov. It’s written for a non-technical audience, but the info here is fascinating.

Mobile

12 things you should know about the Apple Watch. -- Medium

12 things you should know about the Apple Watch. — MediumThere's a lot that I agree with in this review, but I'm not as down on the Apple Watch as he is. I wouldn't want to give up mine now, but I certainly think it's not for everyone. Not yet anyway.

Mobile

A Week on the Wrist: The Apple Watch Review

A Week on the Wrist: The Apple Watch ReviewThe Apple Watch is the best smartwatch you can buy, assuming that you have an iPhone. Or that you want a smartwatch.A very fine review. Worth the read if you're curious about the Apple Watch.

Technology

Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, CA. From The Highest-Paying Cities for Tech Jobs.

Mobile

Apple Watch will be available in April

Apple Watch will be available in AprilChief executive Tim Cook confirms the Apple Watch will ship in April to take on Google, Samsung, Sony and LG

Mobile

The Surprising Amount of Time Kids Spend Looking at Screens - The Atlantic

The Surprising Amount of Time Kids Spend Looking at Screens - The AtlanticI think this is only surprising if you’re naive or not around any real kids. My other thought is that I wonder how many adults only spend 2 hours a day looking at screens? Like games and

Technology

Samsung to end plasma TV production this year - CNET

Samsung to end plasma TV production this year - CNETFollowing in the footsteps of Panasonic, Samsung says it will end production of plasma display panels by the end of this year. Via Daring Fireball.

Technology

Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off

Why Game Developers Keep Getting Laid Off“Layoffs are more than just losing a job; they’re gaining a mountain of uncertainty, stress and financial concerns,” one developer told me. “I have moved my family more than seven times over the last 16 years, across the country and up and

Apple

Apple wants Beats' Jimmy Iovine to run a video biz? - CNET

Apple wants Beats' Jimmy Iovine to run a video biz? - CNETWhat an interesting take on the Apple-Beats deal.

Mobile

PaperFold E Ink phone is context sensitive based on folds - CNET

PaperFold E Ink phone is context sensitive based on folds - CNETFor the steam-punk cosplay technologist in your life.

Technology

Why Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg Are Having the Wrong Debate Over Job Training | Inc.com

Why Mark Zuckerberg and Michael Bloomberg Are Having the Wrong Debate Over Job Training | Inc.comBloomberg saying "you can't teach a coal miner to code" is worse than offensive. It's akin to saying "you can't teach a slave to read." He should be called to account

Technology

Silicon Valley's Youth Problem

Silicon Valley's Youth ProblemIn start-up land, the young barely talk to the old (and vice versa). That makes for a lot of cool apps. But great technology? Not so much. A real great article. At places early on, it borders on youth bias, likely because the guy writing it

Mobile

House passes bill to let you unlock your phone, but there's a catch -- Tech News and Analysis

House passes bill to let you unlock your phone, but there’s a catch — Tech News and AnalysisSounds like baby steps. But baby steps in the right direction, at least.

Technology

Why Curved Glass Will Change Gadget Design Forever

Why Curved Glass Will Change Gadget Design ForeverAt CES this week Corning announced a new type of glass that will make curved iPhones and iWatches possible. And that’s just to start.

Technology

Snapchat and that old no revenues debate

Snapchat and that old no revenues debateLike many others in the field I was left scratching my head about Snapchat recently. Not because of the reported $4 billion offer but because of the explosion of age-old arguments about how scandalous it is for a company with no revenues to be

Mobile

Meet Coin, a startup creating a universal credit card -- Tech News and Analysis

Meet Coin, a startup creating a universal credit card — Tech News and AnalysisCool concept, but why make hardware for this when a mobile app would be more ubiquitous and less to carry around?

Technology

Storybird for Education v2 has shipped. -- The Storybird blog

Storybird for Education v2 has shipped. — The Storybird blogI’ve been working pretty hard on this education tools update for Storybird since joining the company. I’ve got lots of other things going on too, but it’s nice to point to this and say, “yay, I had a hand

Technology

Automattic: No Email, No Office Workers - Business Insider

Automattic: No Email, No Office Workers - Business InsiderMore and more companies will be built fully distributed this way. Great ideas here for companies with all remote workers.