podcasting
Spotify is trying to become podcasting's gatekeeper. We musn't let them.
While Spotify's acqusition of The Ringer is good news for the journalists involved, it's part of a worrying trend in podcasting
technology
Microsoft does sci-fi offices really well
Strange how Microsoft have finally got good at making corporate tech look sexy.
product management
Twitter’s abuse problem is, at heart, a technology problem
This is a damning summation of Twitter’s structural problems [https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/how-twitter-lost-the-internet-war]: > “It’s a technology company with crappy technologists, a revolving door of product heads and C.E.O.s, and no real core of technological innovation. You had Del saying, ‘Trolls
education
Don't ban children from using smartphones - teach them to use them responsibly
The techno panic about children and phones is unnecessary - this is an education issue.
encryption
Amber Rudd is unfit to regulate technology
It’s not often I make a statement as bald as the one in the headline of this post, but this is appalling [https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/amber-is-alert]: > Asked by a party member whether members of her government actually understood how encryption worked and the difficulties in forcing
interfaces
The Siri seduction
For the last few mornings, my five year old daughter has spent a significant amount of time figuring out what she can and can’t do with Siri. Sometimes it’s just silly playfulness, but sometimes she gets really focused. For example, this morning she realised she could ask Siri
iPad
iPad: the almost device
MG Siegler on almost being able to switch full-time to his iPad [https://500ish.com/back-at-my-machine-bebcb0ff7b4e#.bkhe3dm72] – but not quite: > This is especially frustrating to me because I see glimpses of the computing future I could have. Tonight, for example, I brought only my iPad to a cafe to
hacking
Misreporting the TalkTalk hacking
Tom Morris does an excellent job of highlighting the flaws in the reporting of the TalkTalk hack [https://tommorris.org/posts/9396]: > What’s curious though is how the mainstream media have not really talked very much to security experts. Yesterday, I listened to the BBC Today programme—this
conferences
No LeWeb in 2015
For the first time since 2005, we don’t have a LeWeb this year: LeWeb takes a break in 2015 and look towards 2016 for the next edition. Quality has always been our driving factor. It will be strange not getting on the Eurostar to Paris this December, as I
Apple Pay
Losing my Apple Pay virginity
An experience in using Apple's new payment mechanism.
apple
Apple Watch meet wrist: trying on the new tech thing
The Apple Watch is a pretty big chunk of cash for an unknown quantity. To erase the mental pressure myself, and generate some reassurance that I wasn’t blowing the cash, I took myself over to Brighton for a Watch try-on session last week . I was met by a nice
apple
(Apple) Watch and learn
So, yes, I ordered an Apple Watch. This is pretty much par for the course with me and new Apple products these days. It took me a few months to get around to buying an iPod, but I was there the first day for the iPhone and the iPad, and