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“ For two years I was obsessed with trying to turn a blog into a business. I posted 10 or 20 items a day to my site, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, rarely taking a break. I blogged from cabs, using my BlackBerry. I blogged in the middle of the night, having awakened with an idea. I rationalized this insane behavior by telling myself that at the end of this rainbow I would find a huge pot of gold. But reality kept interfering with this fantasy.”
“ Reality television has grown around the increasingly plausible idea that the pleasure brought on by fame can blot out any negative side effects of public exposure. The Internet is proving the same principle, but for less pay. Back in the Victorian age of the Web, some people were sharing private moments with the world without knowing it.”
“ Putin’s withering reply to Dell: “We don’t need help. We are not invalids. We don’t have limited mental capacity.””
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In a final dig at Dell, he talked about how Russian scientists were rightly respected not for their hardware, but for their software. The implication: Any old fool can build a PC outfit.
“ My reputation for being a prick is far from unfounded. And the truth is I really enjoy being mean. It’s much, much easier to make jokes about how bad something is than how good it is. Compare the Daily Show’s coverage of George Bush with it’s puzzlement over how to handle Barack Obama.”
“ I can see similarities between that process [vérité] and Twitter. Certainly you can observe a lot about someone by reading the accumulation of in-the-moment information they have left behind in tweets. It is, at least to those who use it un-self-consciously, a window into personality.”
“ For all of you entry level “producers” who mash-up 800 songs to get hits on Hype Machine: You’ve just been served. What you are about to hear is terrible. It was made to be terrible and prove a point. For now just take this post for what it is; an experiment of “hype”.”
“ My last seven adverts in this column were influenced by the early catalogue of Krautrock band, Paternoster. This one, however, is based entirely around the work of Gil Scott-Heron. Man, 32. Possibly the last person you want to be stood next to at a house-party you’ve been dragged along to by a friend who wants to get off with the flatmate of the guy whose birthday it is. Hey! Have you ever heard Boards of Canada? They’re amazing; I’ll burn you a CD. Box no. 3178.”
“ Complications set in–yes, complications. How many times have we heard: ‘it’s simple’. Nothing is simple. We live in a world where nothing is simple. Each day, just when we think we have a handle on things, suddenly some new element is introduced and everything is complicated once again. (…) “What is the secret? What is the secret to simplicity, to the pure and simple life? Are our appetites, our desires undermining us? Is the cart in front of the horse?”
Log Lady – Twin Peaks
“ Here is another attempt to support the form follows failure thesis: If the idea of “dissatisfaction with existing artifacts” is not limited to failure of some kind, there is clearly no basis for disagreement. But in the evolution of artifacts, preferences and prejudices are powerful forces, as are innumerable other forces. Most of Thomas Jefferson’s inventions, for example, were the result of special needs that had nothing to do with failure.”
“ We call this process “design to value.” It’s a far cry from “design to cost,” the typical approach used to make cars, in which a final price is set and the new car is then engineered to be sold profitably at that price; the concept of how consumers perceive value does not really enter into the equation.”
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