Reading for January 7, 2011

• Beekeeper Who Leaked EPA Documents: “I Don’t Think We Can Survive This Winter” - I sure hope my bees survive!
• The U.S.S. Prius - from Friedman in the NY Times
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Brainstorm - Corporate America wants help coming up with fresh ideas. Can a new breed of consultant teach companies how to think?
• The Unwelcome Return of Platform Dependencies - An app that depends on a dozen APIs has a dozen new ways to fail
• Live Web, Real Time … Call It What You Will, It’s Gonna Take A While To Get It - An article by Narry Hodder from 2009
• What lies ahead: Data
• 10 Predictions for Web Development in 2011 - Check out 3 and 10
• Sideloading MOBI files to Kindle for iPad - This was a good find. I found that covers just seem to work, I didn’t need to futz around at all.
• Fish Where the Developers Are from Steve Rubel
• Mac App Store Cracked Open for Piracy - Not released yet, but a new app will make “stealing” free Mac App store easy
• Why the Mac App Store Sucks - Can you say “walled garden?”
• Uncle Sam has $30M to bypass Chinese, Iranian ‘Net filters - The State department wants you to help the crack firewalls
• The Gollum Effect - There’s VRM ideas in here somewhere…
• Consumption, Innovation, and the Source of Wealth
• Blogging Forefather Seeks to Re-Invent Blogging, Again - “Unless we’ve all been Farmville-zombified too deeply to care anymore, My.ReallySimple is something we all ought to be cheering for.”
• From Dave Winer…Upcoming: The minimal blogging tool - This looks like something I’d use.

Posted by Phil Windley on January 7, 2011 2:35 PM