(Tim Wu provides an excellent write-up of everything that I say when someone asks me what I think about the iPhone: Why the iPhone isn’t really revolutionary.) My three observations about the iPhone: It’s not an open platform and there’s no development kit (yet). For now, Apple is the only company that can make applications [...]
Ars Technica dropped an update on the “Family and Consumer Choice Act of 2007,” (press release) cosponsored by Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-IL) and Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). The bill proposes to give subscribers options for more “family-friendly” programming in two ways: (1) forcing cable providers to follow FCC broadcast indecency standards related to the scheduling [...]
An Adbusters article titled “Generation F*cked: How Britain is Eating Its Young” confirmed some of my recently surfaced fears about growing up in the new millennium. I worry that “depth” is slowly disappearing as a cultural value—that we’re experiencing a “mass shallowing” of our cultural experience. This shallowing comes courtesy of a slew of minute, [...]