On How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus
I'm genuinely surprised. I mean, I always figured that Gizmodo was a fully owned subsidiary of Apple's PR firm, but apparently not?
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On Why Do We Still Have Forms?
I think that a survey of current music (or any other artistic form) gives the superficial appearance of diversity far beyond previous eras, but that what we're really seeing is the lack of a historical filter having yet been applied. And that's as true of writing as it is with any other artistic pursuit: we've yet to determine what new forms of expression are effective and interesting, and trying to separate out the noise of experimentation from the signal of successful art while immersed in it is not likely to yield much other than judgments of dubious merit. There are plenty of folks playing with the written word, and some of those folks are getting somewhere and some are not, but I don't think that writing lacks for adventure.
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On We Hear a Rumor that Steve Jobs Called Gizmodo...
Pffft. Why do you think this is blowing up today? As we all now, "work" for today's office worker consists primarily of consuming ephemera on the Internet. I think it's great that people are taking time out from their busy schedule of dicking around on Facebook and forwarding YouTube videos to gawk at the entirely predictable machinations of a multi-billion dollar corporation and a publicity seeking blog.
Look, if people can't feel irrationally attached to corporations that would cheerfully grind them up into chum if it would lower the BOM on their latest consumer feeding-frenzy bait a quarter cent, who CAN they feel attached to?