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More Journalists Doing Their Job

Speaking of how to write stories about Sony that aren’t shit, here’s Tim Kelly and Reiji Murai for Reuters also showing BusinessWeek how it’s done.

A Better Sony Story

Remember the piece of shit story about Sony a few months back from BusinessWeek? The New York Times’ Hiroko Tabuchi actually interviewed people (OMG!) and wrote it up like a real reporter.

Outside the Cocoon

I put my hands in my coat pockets and absentmindedly play around with the earphones that I’ve put in my left hand side pocket. I run my finger over the metal earphone jack, flicking its hard tip against my thumb. There’s a comfort to doing that I can’t explain. Something is wrong. The angle. The [...]

How I Use My… iPhone Home Screen

I’ve been thinking for a while about a series of posts describing how I use things. Since my iPhone is the device I use most, it seemed like the logical place to begin. I imagine that I use my iPhone home screen differently to most people. Here’s a screenshot: As is quickly evident, I keep [...]

Retraction

Incredible radio.

The New iPad

Yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought an Apple device on the date it was released and I thought that I’d take the opportunity to share my first impressions. This isn’t a review. There are plenty of those around if you want to know if you should get one. Instead, here are three thoughts. [...]

The Business of Bookmarking

Insightful talk by Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard. (It’s a PDF of the text of the talk.)

Ten is Less than Five

Almost exactly one year ago, John Gruber criticised the tendency of reviewers to grade to a curve in the context of tablets. Unfortunately, it’s been a year and things haven’t changed much. Consider Vlad Savov’s recent review of the Sony Xperia S for The Verge.1 Savov gives the device a 7.1 making you think this [...]

Melo

Is this finally a good minimal Last.fm scrobbler for Mac? So far signs look good. $3.99 on the Mac Store. (via One Thing Well.)

Startup or Pokemon?

I did surprisingly poorly.