• Tim Bray: Mobility Blues — "I don’t wanna be a sharecropper on MassaSteve’s plantation. I don’t want to write code for a platform where there’ssomeone else who gets to decide whether I get to play and what I’mallowed to sell, and who can flip my …"

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Comcast customer disservice, Spam service redux

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• Early YouTube Engineer Tells All — "When we recently heard about the history of YouTube’s growth strategy from CEO Chad Hurley’s point of view, he described it as “hanging onto a rocket.” But an engineer’s take is always going to be a bit less rose-colored and …"

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Movie marketing on a budget, Comcast customer disservice

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• Learning from “bad” UI

See also: Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Comcast customer disservice, Spam service redux

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• Starbucks is Pruning — "Big news went down yesterday. Starbucks is closing 600 existing locations, cutting new store openings even further, and significantly reducing its workforce. This is on top of recently announcing a major reduction in their Starbucks Entertainment foray. It’s official … …"

See also: The importance of being good, Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Wireless Advantage

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• Puppets, theatre and the conflation of ’successful’ with ‘popular’ — Loren Feldman may be hanging up the Shel Israel puppet but sadly we’re still a long way away from bringing the curtain down on the banal theater that’s consuming what the rest of us once proudly referred to as …

See also: Finding a co-founder, Stop the music, New Under the Iron, Embrace the medium

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