Archive for the 'Technology' Category


WWDC

It was the first post-Steve presentation. I know, I know, Apple’s supposed to be history. Samsung is on a full court press, giving away their devices to all the tastemakers while Apple, like the moribund music business, refuses to give it away for free. But then today happened. Tim Cook is better. But he’ll never […]

How I Made Something Go Viral

Facebook Is For Old People INSPIRATION So my girlfriend points out a picture on Facebook of a rich friend on a plane with her dog and I’m reading the comments…and I see that of the wife of a famous movie producer, whose story was told in “Vanity Fair.” That’s when it hit. If these people […]

Facebook Is For Old People

Oldsters are about yesterday. Youngsters are about today. Documenting your entire life history, building a timeline, a shrine to yourself, so that the people you grew up with will be impressed? That’s for baby boomers. Their children want nothing to do with it. Kids are for living, oldsters are for dying. Baby boomers didn’t start […]

Signal/Noise

I’m trying to separate the signal from the noise. Once upon a time, information was scarce, like music. You had to hunt for it, no one was pointing a fire hose at your face, which is what logging on to the Internet is like. It’s a tsunami of information. Time is limited. Where do you […]