Nick Bergus Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things

An aging virgin Merlin Mann writing on Kung Fu Grippe about the thought process behind the decision to pull full-content RSS feeds from TheAtlantic.com during a redesign This reeks of the same bush-league decision-making that hobbled Hulu, gets music fans sued, and keeps high-quality content locked in a tower like an aging virgin — too special [...]

An aging, impotent beast Mimi Johnson’s “Did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?” The people who run newspapers and those who work for them are engaged in useless foreplay. They cling tightly, trying again and again to make the way they’ve always done it still work, but the [...]

Since I bought my Droid last November, I’ve used a bunch of different Twitter clients. I have yet to find one I’m really happy with. I know development is hard, and it seems whiny to complain publicly. My hope is that the developers will read this and incorporate some of my suggestions. Or someone else will [...]

For a semester now, I’ve pointed my  multimedia introduction students towards a bunch of good multimedia sites and asked to  find and share in class something that they’ve really liked. It’s good for them because they have to look at multimedia in a critical way. It’s good for me because I find neat new things [...]