Filed under Technology by adam | March 29, 2009 | 0 comments
I’m on my first Virgin America flight. WiFi connected instantly. It turns out that the Internet is pretty much the same at 40,000 feet.
Addendum: Apparently there is also still spam email at this altitude.
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Filed under Technology, The Web by adam | March 14, 2009 | 3 comments
Excellent summary of where we find the newspaper business today:
Round and round this goes, with the people committed to saving newspapers demanding to know “If the old model is broken, what will work in its place?†To which the answer is: Nothing. Nothing will work. There is no general model for newspapers to replace the one the internet just broke.
Oops 3/16/09. “Shirky,” not Sharky.