Liner Notes

Breaking News

The news that Spotify acquired a couple of podcasting companies certainly resonated for those of us who were around in the early days of RSS, the attachment extension, and the birth of podcasting. For those of you who wonder what the “pod” part refers to, it’s become the iPhone and its Android…

GGX — 2 days to go

OneonOnes

For some time I’ve wanted to experiment with a format that would retain some of the feel of the Gillmor Gang, but would allow drilling down in a more extended fashion on the subject matter of mutual interest. When we started sharing posts in a private/public way in the Gillmor Gang app, the underlying context…

The Dangling Conversation

The time around the holidays expands and contracts based on two vectors: family and hope. Family is the more immutable of the two, bound tightly to laws of the universe like but not only the transition from being a child to becoming our parents, and the push for achieving dreams and…

I’m a loser

The election is over and the media won. It’s not true but it sounds true. Or more accurately, the media lost sounds false because who cares what the media wins or loses. Do we get better TV if the media wins? Is it better if comedy gets better because the wrong guy won? Any sentence that begins with “Well…

what neuralizer

Twitter killing Vine strikes at the heart of my young daughter’s hopes and dreams. Not just because it comes out of the blue, but because it’s a cruel, ugly message being delivered at a sensitive age. In the shadow of Trump, everything takes on a weight and impact far beyond expectation or…

Jump Shot

Talking to Jon Udell today about his discoveries around learning, he said some interesting stuff about understanding the process of getting there as distinguished from what there there is. A convoluted conversation once I added my two cents, Jon’s thoughts are as ever simpler and more direct. I imagine he’ll…

Even I am impressed

The Internet of Actions

As notifications prove more and more irresistible, even the most hardened resistors are bending to the imperative. Take Facebook, for example. From the company that lives to suck you in and never let your data go, comes Notify, an app that offers you a notification bus that registers…