Dan Frommer:
The worry, as usual, seems to be that Twitter — a thing we love deeply — is going to destroy itself as it tries to become more of a business. Or at least ruin the Twitter that we grew up with or the Twitter that could have been. Anyway, I get it. No one likes it when The Man takes things away, even if it’s as bizarre as wanting to use LinkedIn to read Twitter. But it’s also important to understand Twitter’s situation.
Meathead’s website has become my go-to resource for nearly all things grilling and smoking.
Tomorrow’s Fourth of July menu here at Casa Blanca includes smoking a rack of St. Louis ribs and beef brisket.
Speaking of Thunderbolt.
Chuck Skoda on the difficulties that Mac users and developers encounter at times due to Apple’s aggressive attitude of simplification, change, and/or the adoption of new technologies.
(An aside to Chuck’s article, I can’t help but wonder how long until the only port on a Mac is a Thunderbolt port. Will it ever happen, or will Thunderbolt and USB be as simple as Apple goes? And that begs another question: will Thunderbolt replace the 30-pin adapter on our iPhones and iPads? And if so, how soon?)
Surprise! It’s actually the next Android phone. (I kid, I kid.)
(No free tweet for me.)
My thanks to Igloo Software for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.
“That’s no moon. It’s a corporate intranet!”
… 6 months later …
“I felt a great disturbance in our company — as if hundreds of employees cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
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Okay, I admit I only watched the video. But in all fairness The Verge’s video reviews are very, very well done.
Marco Arment:
Like many of the people likely to be reading this, I bought a digital SLR a few years ago and developed a photography hobby. Then, also like many of you, my iPhone’s camera slowly took over my casual photography needs, and I stopped bringing the big SLR with me most of the time. The iPhone camera was good enough for most uses.
I have never owned a nice camera. One day I may spring for something like a GX1, but right now my iPhone is not only “the camera I have with me,” it’s also the best camera I own.
The iPhone’s abilities as a camera have significantly improved over the years. If your budget or your interest in photography don’t warrant a high-quality camera, fortunately it’s safe to say that Apple will continue to make the iPhone into a great camera.
Several of the columns written by young Ernest Hemingway during his time writing for The Toronto Star have been put online:
[The Hemingway Papers] showcases the columns Ernest Hemingway wrote while reporting for The Toronto Star in the early 1920s. He joined the paper at the age of 20, sending dispatches from Toronto, Chicago, and across Europe. His relationship with the city, the newspaper, and the stories he told would have an enormous impact on his literary style.
Hemingway wrote 191 articles for the Toronto Star, and 19 of them are currently showcased in the archives. A bigger selection of the collection (70 articles) is available in newsprint for $20.
My thanks to Paste Interactive for again sponsoring the RSS feed to promote their web app, Jumpchart.
Jumpchart’s tagline is “plan websites”, but it is so, so much more than that. If you work with a team building websites, or if you do client work, Jumpchart could prove to be a fine tool helping you build, organize, swap, edit, and agree upon the content, design, and information architecture of a new site.
Ian Bogost:
Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever—the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or…) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It’s not abnormal, and it’s not just for business. It’s just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it’s just life.
For episode 67 of The B&B Podcast, John Moltz sat in for me. (Thanks, John!) I’m told that he and Ben discussed the latest Google announcements, and how those compare with Microsoft’s foray into the tablet space. They also discuss computing setups and the lives of Windows users.
Colorado is no stranger to summertime wildfires, but that doesn’t make them any less sobering or incredible. My in-laws live about 50 miles northeast of Manitou Springs, and last night, while we were eating dinner on their back deck, a western wind blew in and the whole neighborhood began to fill with smoke and smell like campfire. The Front Range is like a giant tinderbox right now — we could sure use some rain.