Gordon's Notes

Over the past 10 years or so I've been trying to make low cost webcam based business video-conferencing work. That's almost as lo...

Customers can be their own worst enemies. It's obviously true that vendors often fail to deliver what customer's want. It also true ...

Brilliant (jpg). Worth of The Onion, really.

If we add Steve Job's undeniable passion for corporate secrecy to this thesis , and add in the current received wisdom that the future o...

In retrospect, it's shocking how badly Apple bungled their .Mac (dotMac) to MobileMe transition. Today I ran across one more reminder of...

Tales of the Audrey have put me in a reflective mood. I've been thinking about my calendar sync wars. I've spent a lot of time and ...

I'd almost forgotten the Audrey, the high water mark of the Palm PDA platform ... An Apple in your kitchen - The Unofficial Apple Weblog...

Maybe Blagojevich is the worst of the worst. He comes from a bad place .... Rod Blagojevich's bad hair day | Salon ... Three of his last...

From Paul Krugman's Nobel prize lecture slides: nobelslides.pdf (application/pdf Object) My rules for research: 1. Listen to the Gentile...

NYT journalists observing a demonstration of patriotism by Mumbai's Muslim community quote some banners ... Muslims in India Put Aside G...

Obama has been unable to break his cigarette addiction. Obama Noncommittal on Caroline Kennedy, and Smoking ...On another matter, Mr. Brokaw...

There are many ways to use VOIP, some leveraging Google's pre-beta GrandCentral service . It's taken about 14 years longer than expe...

Apple's been secretly blocking MobileMe email sent to spamcop.net . So that desperate email for help your daughter sent you? She doesn...

Robert Reich's asks "Shall We Call it a Depression Now? " Brad DeLong says ... not yet . It is looking rather bad though (Glur...

I've been reading the Guardian ever since they went to full content on many of their feeds. Terrific paper, great innovation. Unfortunat...