1. Book Pricing
Amazon blinked.
In case you missed the story, over the weekend Macmillan drew a line in the sand.  No more devaluing our product, no more underselling to boost Kindle market share, we’re not going to let you sell electronic books for $9.99 upon date of hard cover publication.
Oh YEAH??
Well, yeah.  You should have seen [...]

Speaking of crowdsourcing…
Someone forwarded me these tweets from Josh Groban:

"I really don’t feel that charity performances should be subject to reviews in the same light as other performances…."
"people give their time, energy and voices, for free and with little to no rehearsal and critics should put away the snot-o-meter."
"just a thought. night!"
http://twitter.com/joshgroban

Felice disagreed with Josh, [...]

1. Shitty Name
There’s a linguist somewhere who can explain why the hard "a" sound in "Pad" is unappealing.  "iSlate" was better.  So many of the Web prognostications were better.  And if the original hard drive iPod can be renamed the "Classic", maybe the iPod Touch can be renamed the "iPhone For Verizon Subscribers" and the [...]

I’m not convinced I need one!
I remember vividly the moment I knew I needed an iPod.  I was on the back side of Mammoth Mountain, waiting to get on Chair 14, and the guy in front of me had white wires dangling from his ears.  It wasn’t even 2002.  The device had only been introduced [...]