As a number of perturbed status updates I'd posted to my Facebook profile in the wee hours of Friday morning suggested to my friends this AM, the health of my Mac Mini, Cylon.local, took a bit of a nose dive last night. Now, it's probably just a hard drive failure, which is actually not so bad [^1], but I won't know for sure until I take the little fella down to Tekserve's "ER" this weekend and get it properly diagnosed.
Category: Business Sense
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch published a post Friday, titled The Truth: What’s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T And The FCC. It is—in my opinion—a fairly insightful piece, particularly regarding his analysis of Apple's seemingly misleading wording behind their reasons for "not approving" the Google Voice app for inclusion in the App Store.
Arnie discussing the imperative to modernize the publishing infrastructure in California's education system by moving to digital textbooks:
I've lately been involved in a number of conversations about the value proposition of Twitter as a publishing platform to anyone interested in developing a public persona for a company, an organization, or even one's own career identity. What follows are ideas that have repeatedly surfaced during these conversations, as well as a handful of links I've been amassing from my reading, as well as links friends and colleagues have shared with me.
John Gruber recently published a characteristically insightful piece about the Verizon iPhone rumors in the press earlier this week. Speaking to rumors of what Business Week has called the "iPhone Lite," Gruber revisits Apple's introduction of the iPod Mini, which was the event that turned the iPod from a single product into a product family.