• As the music stars of my youth are dying now, in their 70s and 80s, I realize that they aren't much older than I am, but when I was a kid, of course it seemed t[...]
    2021-02-09T16:18:07.000Z
  • I woke up in the middle of the night, as I often do. I always get out the iPad, check the nightly email. Make sure it went out at midnight. Noticed that the mai[...]
    2021-02-09T15:13:30.000Z
  • So many programs when you sit down to use them for the first time, don't explain themselves. It's impossible to figure out how to make it work, even if you alre[...]
    2021-02-09T14:59:25.000Z
  • Braintrust query: Let's write a simple JavaScript pre-processor!
    2021-02-08T21:39:16.000Z
  • Another reason the firing of McNeil was such a concern is this question: Would the 150 people at the NY use their power to cancel against the people they cover,[...]
    2021-02-08T19:45:26.000Z
  • I was asked why I care that the NYT fired Donald McNeil. First, because he was not only a great reporter, he was a great teacher. I learned a lot from him. But [...]
    2021-02-08T19:23:36.000Z
  • Part of program design is checking your assumptions. Sometimes things that conceptually seem like a lot of work, might not take a lot of time to run. A great ex[...]
    2021-02-08T19:15:37.000Z
  • Bruce Springsteen in Jeep's Super Bowl commercial.
    2021-02-07T16:33:28.000Z
  • I like Mary Trump. There's a long interview with her on the new Politicology podcast. She talks about the torture we're all experiencing and the huge trauma it [...]
    2021-02-07T16:26:55.000Z
  • The promise of the web, twitter, etc for journalism is it's supposed to give the people a voice in the news. So far that has not happened. That has been the cor[...]
    2021-02-07T15:49:12.000Z
  • Poll: Suppose you were a columnist at the NYT and you thought their firing Donald McNeil was a bad thing. What would you do?
    2021-02-07T14:46:09.000Z
  • I can see how the second impeachment trial could backfire. Trump has been obscured, pushed to the side. He used to be the focus of everyone's attention, but now[...]
    2021-02-07T02:48:00.000Z
  • NakedJen lusts for this jacket
    Look at all the pockets!
    2021-02-07T02:16:19.000Z
  • Video of the day. Mac sounds performed a cappella by a Korean group. I've watched it at least a dozen times.
    2021-02-07T02:02:12.000Z
  • A socially distanced lift line
    At Steamboat Springs today.
    2021-02-06T17:25:47.000Z
  • A long time ago my friend Doc Searls and I agreed that you don't make money from a blog or podcast, but you can make money because of a blog or podcast. It's a [...]
    2021-02-06T16:58:34.000Z
  • They have so many awards for journalism, why don't we have anti-awards, for acts of such cowardice, hubris or greed, at the expense of the public. It probably w[...]
    2021-02-06T16:21:17.000Z
  • I get asked to invite people to Clubhouse because I've written so much about it. To invite people you have to share your contacts with them. I'm not willing to [...]
    2021-02-06T16:16:05.000Z
  • McNeil's statement: “I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year[...]
    2021-02-06T16:10:03.000Z