Gillmor Gang: Watch Party
TechCrunch But instead, two weeks before the climactic debates, our thoughts turned to handicapping where we’ll be by the time Apple actually ships the next wave of iPhones for the holidays. Apple’s event focused on two product announcements — a next gen Apple Watch and an iPad Air refresh. Read More
Home Sales Surge in Brooklyn
NYT > Top Stories There were 735 homes in Brooklyn that went into contract in August, a 38.7 percent increase from the same month last year, according to a new report from the real estate listings company StreetEasy. By Stefanos Chen While Manhattan’s real estate market continued to reel in August, Brooklyn had a near-record number of contract signings, spurred by bargain hunting New Yorkers and pent-up demand from months under quarantine. Read More
The iPad’s Handwriting Recognition Shows How Apple Does Machine Learning
Popular Mechanics While Alexa and Siri rely on a connection to faraway data centers to handle their processing, the iPad needs to be able to do all that work on the device itself to keep up with handwriting (and drawing—machine learning also helps the Notes app straighten out an imperfect doodle of a polygon, for example). In the newest update to iPadOS, when you write with the Apple Pencil ($129), the iPad can understand your scrawl and, with Scribble, convert it to typed text. Read More
Here’s how the pandemic finally ends — POLITICO
Benioff: There Would Be No Salesforce Without Larry Ellison
WebProNews I’m calling CEOs who are friends of mine, who are in paralysis and who aren’t making moves. I’m saying look you’ve got to get into participation. Read More
Lorne Michaels on 'S.N.L.' in the Pandemic and Chris Rock's Return as Host
NYT > Top Stories Amid the coronavirus pandemic, he and his colleagues at “Saturday Night Live” had to leave behind the show’s home at Studio 8H in NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza headquarters in March , and its live broadcasts came to an abrupt halt. In an interview, Michaels, the show’s creator, talks about pandemic preparations and why “a little danger” can be good for comedy. Read More
Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism | by Sarah Jeong | Sep, 2020
MediumAnd I love that model. It’s so real. Every day, I send out my newsletter, and 20 people immediately unsubscribe. [Laughs] And it’s like, I’ve just decided to lean into it. I’m not gonna cry because it’s over—I’m gonna smile because it happened and thank you for the time you spent with me.
Watch a documentary exploring the making of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange - Far Out Magazine
Far Out Magazine A 30-minute documentary called Making A Clockwork Orange takes a closer look at the controversial film, one that Kubrick himself pulled from distribution in the United Kingdom because it allegedly inspired multiple copycat crimes. Kubrick applied his fiercely original vision to Burgess’ ideas and the result was a work of unparalleled aesthetic qualities. Read More
Chris Rock Talks 'Fargo', Trump and Protests
NYT > Top Stories Like, I’m hanging out with the guy that made “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure” and he’s showing me the models of the sets for “Superman.” Image This role feels like it’s declaring itself as being outside the realm of what you’re best known for. Read More
How South Korea Successfully Managed Coronavirus — The Wall Street Journal
Prince’s Vault Reveals a Brilliant Trove With ‘Sign O’ the Times’
NYT > Top Stories (A 12-minute version is finally documented on the new album.) He was toying with the sampled instruments available on his Fairlight synthesizer and with studio effects; one song, the eerie “Nevaeh Ni Ecalp A,” tape-reverses the vocals of another Vault song, an eccentric waltz he repeatedly reworked, “A Place in Heaven.” But some Vault tracks on the expanded album illuminate how collaborative Prince had grown with members of the Revolution, particularly Wendy Melvoin (Susannah’s twin sister) on guitar and Lisa Coleman on keyboards, who would go on to record together as Wendy & Lisa. Read More
Gyms implement in-home training, Zoom classes with social interaction to stay afloat
masslive While hundreds of fitness centers remained closed due to Massachusetts COVID-19 guidelines, Clark ignored Gov. Charlie Baker’s order and reopened his gym in Chatham. “It is a completely different world than it’s ever been,” Director of Sales for Worcester Fitness Andy Sharry said. Read More
Whole Foods Founder: ‘The Whole World Is Getting Fat’
The New York Times Three years ago, the activist hedge fund Jana Partners took a stake in Whole Foods and called on Mr. Mackey to institute sweeping changes to make the upscale grocery store more profitable, or consider selling it. Whole Foods was sold to Amazon for $13.4 billion, Jana made a tidy profit of $300 million and Mr. Mackey found himself working for Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, who is not exactly the poster boy for conscious capitalism. Read More
Newsletters and New Media Economics
Toward a more relational Medium
Medium (Separately, over on the Medium blog, I offer some more concrete upcoming stuff .) Relational media Among other ways, the internet has changed media consumption along a spectrum that you might call relational to transactional . Personally speaking, I already read a lot of Medium (hazard of the job), but with this app, I read even more — and, most importantly, I read more from the people I’m most interested in. Read More