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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Braintrust query: Let's write a simple JavaScript pre-processor!
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,[...]
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 [...]
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[...]
Bruce Springsteen in Jeep's Super Bowl commercial.
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 [...]
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[...]
Poll: Suppose you were a columnist at the NYT and you thought their firing Donald McNeil was a bad thing. What would you do?
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[...]
NakedJen lusts for this jacket
Look at all the pockets!
Video of the day. Mac sounds performed a cappella by a Korean group. I've watched it at least a dozen times.
A socially distanced lift line
At Steamboat Springs today.
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 [...]
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[...]
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 [...]
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[...]