Stephen Robles of AppleInsider invited me to for a conversation for the AppleInsider podcast. It was a delightful chat about a range of topics, including iPad Pro, Creator Economy, Social Media Pla… | Continue reading
A connecting principle Linked to the invisible Almost imperceptible Something inexpressible Science insusceptible Logic so inflexible Causally connectible Nothing is invincible Synchronicity, The P… | Continue reading
Photo by Om. Made with Leica SL. I was recently speaking with Jeff Olsen, a former park ranger turned tour guide, at Grand Teton National Park. As we cruised around in his big truck looking fo… | Continue reading
A couple of days ago, I pointed out the risks we all have from companies that fall outside what is derisively known as “big tech.” Whether it is utilities playing god with the… | Continue reading
Believe it or not, the harsh glare of scrutiny on big technology giants has kept them honest, more or less. Realizing how much of their present and future business depends on folks wanting to use t… | Continue reading
The near-ubiquitous Southwest Airlines just turned 50. It has been profitable for 47 of those 50 years. It took a global pandemic to bring the airline to its knees. It is an amazing (and all too fa… | Continue reading
I get bored easily—no less with my own ideas than with those of others. Writing for me is a process of constantly throwing out stuff that doesn’t seem interesting enough. Janet Malcolm Janet Malcol… | Continue reading
It was a slower week for me — between work-related emails and research, I had little time for actual writing. I barely even had time for Twitter, and even then only as a very occasional guilty plea… | Continue reading
It is reopening day in California — and to finally call it summer. It has been a long time since we have been able to do things that can be deemed normal — mundane activities like walking out… | Continue reading
I find myself on Disquiet, a blog run by Marc Weidenbaum, about once a week. I enjoy reading everything he wrote and shared during the preceding seven days in one … | Continue reading
Tony Kuyper is well known to many of us who tend to spend a lot of time in Adobe Photoshop. He makes an editing panel that allows photographers to create exact luminosity masks, which in turn help … | Continue reading
I came across this opinion piece about the role of social media in the demise and subsequent rebirth of blogging, a topic not unfamiliar to readers of my blog. It credits Twitter for providing a pl… | Continue reading
Francis Mallaman, sharing his signature fish baked in salt. For over a decade, long before Netflix’s Chef Table made him even more popular, Argentinian chef, dandy and raconteur, Francis Mall… | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I wandered and wondered among the redwoods, hoping that their magnificence and their silence would allow me space to think about some things that have been on my mind. On… | Continue reading
You might have read the news that the University of Nevada, Reno, will give its incoming freshman class an iPad Air (with a keyboard and a pencil.) In itself, it isn’t much of a newsworthy of atten… | Continue reading
What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity. How could it? An… | Continue reading
Geeta Dayal, a well-respected art critic and music journalist, is helping organize a music concert, Music for India, on Saturday, June 5th. She announced the news about the concert on Twitter. All … | Continue reading
Geeta Dayal, a well-respected art critic and music journalist, is helping organize a music concert, Music for India, on Saturday, June 5th. She announced the news about the concert on Twitter. All … | Continue reading
A few days back, I watched with wonder and awe as a copter flew on the Red Planet. Witnessing Ingenuity take off from the Mars Perseverance Rover and send images all the way bac… | Continue reading
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches,” Andy Warhol. Today, he would have measured everything in the number of tweets, re-tweets, shares… | Continue reading
It is too cold (relatively speaking) and gray to go out — a perfect day for either reading a whodunnit or watching an excellent crime flick. Thankfully, folks from CrimeReads created a l… | Continue reading
I have been a big opponent of Google’s proprietary web formatting technology, Accelerated Mobile Pages, aka AMP. The company wanted to push AMP by giving preference to sites that used AMP in … | Continue reading
Telecom companies tend not to be particularly good at anything, including running their own businesses. They never seem to learn — only to spend incompetently on expansions into new markets involvi… | Continue reading
Telecom companies tend not to be particularly good at anything, including running their own businesses. They never seem to learn — only to spend incompetently on expansions into new markets involvi… | Continue reading
It is too cold (relatively speaking) and gray to go out — a perfect day for either reading a whodunnit or watching an excellent crime flick. Thankfully, folks from CrimeReads created a l… | Continue reading
Through most of the pandemic lockdown, I was religious about my morning walks. It was the only time of the day I felt comfortable going out for a walk without a mask. Lately, that habit of going ou… | Continue reading
Photo by Chris Michel Every photo tells a story. And there is a story behind every image. As a writer, I found myself restricted by the social platforms when it came to telling that story. I believ… | Continue reading
The last time I bought a new iPad Pro was at the end of 2018, and I have been patiently waiting to order the new model with the M1 chip. Despite waking up very early on the April 30th morning to bu… | Continue reading
My order of AirTags arrived this morning. I got a four-pack, because, why not. I got them engraved because, again, why not. At first blush, they are much larger than I thought they would be, though… | Continue reading
In an interview with Hodinkee, Patek Philippe’s Thierry Stern explains why his mega-luxury brand won’t bother making a smart watch, unlike other watch brands such as Montblanc and TAG Heuer. … | Continue reading
“Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches,” Andy Warhol. Today, he would have measured everything in the number of tweets, re-tweets, shares… | Continue reading
A visual journey through Northern California’s Coastal Redwoods and its wild coastline. The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not supported by all the facts. — J… | Continue reading
Twitter is going the way of subscriptions in 2021 — after buying Revue, the company today snapped up Scroll for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is a smart move — it all… | Continue reading
Twitter is going the way of subscriptions in 2021 — after buying Revue, the company today snapped up Scroll for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition is a smart move — it all… | Continue reading
It has been a rough few days for the citizens of India, who have been struggling with the rampaging COVID-19 virus. The pandemic is more widespread than either media or official figures seem to ind… | Continue reading
I have made notes when reporting news, interviewing people, or drafting outlines for most of my life. In the early days, it would be shorthand. Later it would be a weird blend of English, symbols, … | Continue reading
Over the last two days, I have been talking to old friends and family members, and no matter how you put it, the situation is grim. Except for my parents, the virus has impacted many extended famil… | Continue reading
Over the last two days, I have been talking to old friends and family members, and no matter how you put it, the situation is grim. Except for my parents, the virus has impacted many extended famil… | Continue reading
Okay, I admit that is a bit sensationalistic subject line, but I wanted to have something catchy to get your attention for this story about the future of food. A group of researchers is working on … | Continue reading
Walking Among The Giants A visual journey through Northern California’s Coastal Redwoods and it’s wild coastline. The world, we are told, was made especially for man — a presumption not… | Continue reading
Two decades into the new millennium, it is pretty apparent: hardware without software and smarts is nothing more than a gimmick. Apple’s product launch event today was a timely reminder of th… | Continue reading
In December 2020, with the release of the iOS 14.3, the owners of iPhone 12 Pro (and ProMax), got to experience Apple’s new photo format, ProRAW. In simplest terms, the iPhone camera captures… | Continue reading
What do Nils Frahm, Anne Mueller, Jeannie Schulz, Mary Lattimore and Atli Örvarsson have in common? They are among three dozen artists whose albums I bought last year from Bandcamp, an Oakland, CA-… | Continue reading
Knowing of my growing distaste for the Facebookization of Instagram, Evgeny Tchebotarev, the co-founder of 500px, sent me an email about a new project from Crew, a freelancer-focused design company… | Continue reading
We take the Internet for granted. We take the commercial Internet for granted. What we don’t appreciate is how far we have come from where it all started. Here is a long watch — a video… | Continue reading
Photo by Mikaela Shannon on Unsplash From the day I first laid eyes on the M1-based Apple’s MacBook Pro, I have been a massive fan of the machine. It is fast. It is powerful. It runs cool. An… | Continue reading
I just finished reading Mick Herron’s Slough House. It is the latest in his Slow Horses series. It didn’t disappoint, though it took me a while to finish the book. Herron is widely viewed as … | Continue reading
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash The EVs — electric vehicles are everywhere. More SPACs are touting their fantastic future where they sell millions of vehicles. Elon Musk is the wealthiest g… | Continue reading