The Occasional Blargh

I worry that one day someone is going to catch ✪ reenacting the pie scene with his iPad.

$4.99

The cost of XCode 4 downloaded through the Mac App Store. Apple is Delaware in computing form.

★ March 4, 2011

And if the only viable business is selling games, I hope he and Apple are just as sanguine. (Not to mention that he continues to dance with the strawman that the only use for that data is for junk mail, or that Apple won't use that trove of demographic data for themselves, or that he is morally superior in that he doesn't directly sell ads in his participation in The Deck, though the demographics of his site -- and other member sites -- can pretty easily be deduced. It's a wink and a nod, but the advertisers know the type of people ✪ is offering for sale.)

Six, Apart

Maybe I don't follow tech new obsessively enough, but I suspect that I'm not the only person who missed this. Essentially, Say Media -- the company that VideoEgg became after it "merged" with Six Apart -- is selling off parts of Six Apart piecemeal. Ironic that at SixApart.com the headlined press release immedately before its goodbye to Say Media is "Say: Hello".  Dramatic irony now we know that the stay wouldn't be long.

Yeah, the company that helped to make "blogging" "mainstream" is pretty much dead as the tech world moves on from "blogging".

Though I would argue that the hype balloon and the popping of same came from a fundimental misunderstanding: People mistaking a new device for a new medium. A blog is nothing but a piece of software -- a simplified content management system. It was not a new medium.

(I did find it interesting that Movable Type development had been "outsourced" to Japan for several years already. The band had been drifting apart for far longer than I realized.)

[Alternate title: "Six Apart Take Apart"]

There's probably a full counter-argument or rebuttal to this bit of cheerleading from ✪ out there somewhere, but I have yet to find it. That said, pieces of counter argument have appeared from sources as varied as John Siracusa of Ars Technica, Ian Betteridge, Michael Tsai and Joshua Benton of Nieman Journalism Lab of all places!

I'm trying so very hard to keep this blog from becoming the new "Things ✪ is Wrong About," but he's practically daring me.