by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 26, 2010 | Commentary
From the Wired Epicenter Blog’s Twitter feed: Newspaper Paywall Update: Thirty-five people have signed up to access Newsday online. After three months. At $5 a week = $9,100 in revenue. I’ll be honest, I don’t think I could last on $3000 in revenue a...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 26, 2010 | Commentary, Featured
Today’s Times has an interesting article on Apple’s forthcoming device, and the effect it may have on the publishing industry. But the piece contains some ugly undertones: Apple sold lots of music, but the music labels claimed that iTunes had destroyed the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 22, 2010 | Asides
Wow. Man treats Haiti earthquake wounds using iPhone app | via Macworld
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 21, 2010 | Asides
Bogus Tech Measurements | via Pogue’s Posts Blog Oh, and don’t worry about what the odometer says on that used car you bought, they’d never spin it backward…
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 21, 2010 | Commentary, Featured
There was a new article in the Wall Street Journal last night that “leaked” a little more information on what might be in store for next week’s Apple event. From the WSJ article: Apple has recently been in discussions with book, magazine and...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 19, 2010 | Featured, Reviews, Writing
I love this app. A true iPhone/iPod Touch groundbreaker, beautiful—as are all Tapbots apps—and, since iClip is no longer available Pastebot may be a reasonable replacement at about 1/10 the cost. My review of Pastebot is now up @...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 15, 2010 | Asides
I’m still down about $10k. There’s a PDF with details at the site. For the median plan participant at Vanguard, recovery took about two years. | via Vanguard Research