Sarah Lacy has a Twitter-focused post on TechCrunch that touches at the heart of the struggle for most media businesses today, whether you’re talking about the almost nauseatingly fast-rising Quora or the soon-to-be-paywalled Dallas Morning News. The money quote, emphasis mine: But it’s been a few years, and it’s clear that the bloom is once [...]
Don't believe the hype: DODOcase
Upshot: It’s a gorgeous product that is the perfect case for people who don’t use their iPads. There are a couple digital businesses that were contenders for the first hypebusting post, but I’ve been meaning to write a DODOcase review, and I was reminded by today’s fawning report on the $49 iPad case maker on [...]
Don't believe the hype
As I re-fire this site to post more, I betray my magazine roots by coming up with “sections” as fast or faster than I create posts. This one’s going to be a subset of the Esse Quam Videri category, poking some holes in things (mostly businesses) that need a bubble-burst. First one coming forthwith.