All of this, basically. I love the idea of live music, but so often it turns out to not be quite as a good as you imagine it to be. And, much like Keys, I listen to albums in a long-form way. Sometimes a whole artist’s discography in an evening (and for some, over a day). I much prefer it that way.
Watts Martin talks about the “default narrative” which pervades journalism.
Basically this. I don’t read most technology news any more because it’s almost always scraping the bottom of the barrel crap. And bar one or two writers, this default way of thinking is all over Apple “journalism”, too.
It stinks.
Bill Wasik writes something about IoT over on Wired..
This is probably the first post I’ve seen at a more mainstream publication which talks about IoT well and doesn’t get it all wrong.
I also quite like that they use the term, “Sensor Revolution”. We’re mostly talking about adding a layer of sensors to objects, not giving a fridge a web browser.
And, the location stuff reminds me of Meridian, and some of the research I’m interested in (but my stuff is attached to robots).
Tom Morris talks about writing about yourself on your blog.
“As for one’s “personal brand”? Puh-lease. The concept of such a thing is so toxic to human honesty as to make me want to kick a small child. The reason we’ve only now seen one professional sportsman in the United States come out of the closet as gay is precisely because of “personal brand”. We’re all too horrified about offending some hypothetical future employer with our opinions or even our very own lives that we hide away from telling anyone anything. Sorry, but I’m with the kids on this: YOLO. Lives are short, closets are bad, crippling fear is toxic. If your personal brand demands that you live your life in fear of disclosing important parts of your life or your experience, the answer is to reject the whole sodding concept of personal brands."