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Cray cray irony

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Death To Bullshit

We're being inundated with more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information, we're being exposed to a tremendous amount of bullshit. As

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http://art.thewalters.org/detail/10078/springtime/

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Together, the Gmail experience, the death of Google Reader, and the closure of Picnik all have me questioning whether I want to keep investing time and energy in “free” Google products or whether I need to start looking for paid services that are explicitly making money off the thing I am paying them to do. And if more and more of the people who would be Google’s early adopters feel as I do, and as Fallows does, then that could become a problem for Google.

How much would I be willing to pay per year to use Google Reader? Probably more than the value created by me not clicking on ads.

Is that not what this comes down to? Because Google can't think of a way to make money from this product, it dies. Or is it because they just want to "focus"*.

If I could be a pro user, and pay for the service, and Google could actually monetize their product like a traditional company I would love that. Use all my apps, have a supported back-end. To me, RSS is the plumbing of the internet, I expect to pay to maintain that system.

  *Reader is an information aggregation product. Much akin to a Search engine. How does becoming a broadband provider, engineering wireless glasses, self-driving cars and an embarrassingly under-used social network show that Google is chiefly motivated by "focus"?

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Burritos in space

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The most important thing is obviousness. The problem is overdesign.

Loren Brichter

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Excellent vids

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Industry and patience are almost genius; and successful people are often more distinguished for resolution and perseverance than for unusual gifts.

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