We will continue to dig deeper, and we will undoubtedly find more issues. What we will not do — and never have done — is stand still or turn a blind eye to problems in our supply chain. On this you have my word.
“On This You Have My Word”
“Let’s Talk Piracy & ‘The Simpsons’” by Danny Sullivan
It’s obnoxious to buy a Hulu Plus subscription to watch a show that ends up being “web only.”
“Google’s no-opt-out privacy changes and the end of the anonymous Internet” by Alexandra Petri
The web is a series of jumping from one service to another when your favored service starts making moves like this.
We added a cloud background
Also, if you spend over $100 a month on coffee you’re probably an asshole.
Slipping and Sliding
I think the sliding on time throughout the day is a huge contributor to slipping in general. For a reason that should be so obvious that it’s mind-blowing, which is that it creates a culture of slipping and sliding. It becomes OK that that meeting needs to be rescheduled. It becomes OK that that person wasn’t here at a certain time.
Thought about this today and then listened to Back To Work where it gets talked about. If you can’t keep the little promises then how can you be expected to keep the big promises?
Flickr Pro
In a post about Flickr Pro plans:
Flickr Pro means that you can take all the photos you like with all your phones, cameras, celluloid lightboxes, microwave ovens, etc. and store your memories all together in one place for $24.95 per year.
I had a subscription to Flickr Pro once, but for the amount of photos I took I didn’t think it was worth the $24.95.
What peeved me the most about it is they take the Quicktime Pro model of upgrading. For regular users, Flickr only shows the most recent 200 photos. If you want to go beyond that (say, after years and years of taking photos you might actually want to see early ones) you need to upgrade and get all the features you might not care much about, just like how if you wanted full-screen Quicktime viewing you had to buy a Quicktime Pro license.
Once of the things I hope Flickr clears up in 2012 is to let me know who this site is for. Is it for hard-core and/or professional photographers, or is it for regular joes to post photos to? And for both of those groups there needs to be a compelling reason why you would use Flickr over the other alternatives (photography CMSs, Facebook, Instagram, whatever). “View more than the latest 200 photos” isn’t it, at least not in 2012.
LinkedIn Is Scummy
Frickin’ LinkedIn. You had enough? It’s like a sad FaceBook for middle managers. Everybody links in and then avoid each other not wanting to seem too eager – at least on FaceBook you can try get laid.
Saturday Night’s Children: Dennis Miller
Yeah babe.
Also note the parallels between SNL’s Weekend Update, Politically Incorrect and Dennis Miller Live.
Dude cares about fonts yo
At least it isn’t Comic Sans.
- Letter to Brad Bird (PDF)
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— John Gruber (@gruber) January 25, 2012