This isn’t a post about the Adria Richards thing. I don’t have much unique or all that interesting to say about it, honestly.
But this is a post about the Internet, and its response to Adria Richards and those who have stood up for her over the last few days.
Take Gina Trapani, for example. Gina’s an excellent writer, great podcaster and successful developer. While I don’t know Gina personally, I’ve followed her work for ages and look up to her.
Wufoo? Who? It’s a web application that lets you build amazing online forms for your websites.
We host everything. We build the backend. You get an easy, fun and fast way to collect and analyze data, and it even integrates with many payment systems.
With Wufoo you get…
Just because you’re working with forms and data doesn’t mean you have to do it without personality or style. Gathering information from your users is exciting, why shouldn’t your tools be exciting too?
Dark Sky data, right in your browser. Don’t miss the Time Machine feature.
Willa Paskin, in an article I started reading because I love Arrested Development:
Yet traditional television networks still apportion their series in weekly episodes over four to eight months, allowing binge-watching only in retrospect, even though, for an increasing number of viewers, binge-watching isn’t just a way to catch up on a season that has already wrapped but a better viewing experience altogether. Why let networks and advertisers get in the way of that? Which may explain what Sarandos says, that the audience for Breaking Bad is bigger on Netflix than it is on AMC. (One of the few hard numbers Netflix has shared is that 50,000 of its subscribers watched all 13 episodes of Breaking Bad’s season four the day before the new season premiered on AMC.)
Yeah, I’m sticking with Alfred.
MG Siegler:
Microsoft is being forced to trick the web into thinking its own browser is actually that of its chief rival so that pages will render properly.
You can’t make this stuff up.
If you’ve got kids, you should check out the latest episode of the Mac Power Users podcast. It’s a great one.
While I thought that Evernote/Alfred 2 thing was cool, some of the workflows in this post blow my mind.
Mat Honan:
Nobody cares what kind of smartphone you believe in. It’s not a religion. It’s not your local sports team even. Stop being a soldier. You are not a soldier. You are just wrong. Shut up. You there, with the blog, in the comments, in the pages of the newspaper or the magazine or on Twitter or Facebook. Whatever your opinion is, as soon as you employ it in partisan fashion, it’s deeply and profoundly wrong. Just by sharing it, you are wrong. And nobody cares. Except for the people who do. And they are wrong too. Myself included.
I think I’m hallucinating. Can someone call an ambulance for me?
This week Myke and I address some Lego and 5by5 follow up, then go on to discuss Apple’s recent marketing efforts, Google Now on iOS, Google Reader and Myke’s new Mac.
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