Some Sunday morning reading to share.
My goodness. It seems the August break for news has backed up into July. Why else would the news media cover Obama’s trip to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Europe, like it was a second coming? The expectation game is setting Obama up for an impossible to live up to reality. Of course it is amazing that we aren’t covering any of the real news at the moment. But that’s not sexy enough.
I guess rust never sleeps. I find the resurgence (at least in the media) of Neil Young to be quite interesting. He’s all over the New York Times this week and weekend.
A Windows 95 architect switches to Apple. Why is anyone surprised?
Air conditioning is the down fall of democracy. Jeff Jarvis recycles this story. It is still a good one.
Cringley on Inflection Point. We get behinder and behinder as we get greedier and greedier.
Steve Gillmor on the Magic Bus. Translation: It’s about Mesh and Twitter and Track and much more.
Uncomfortable Answers on the economy. Some are uncomfortable, Some barely scratch the surface. Some just recycle the question.
