Category Archives: General news

John Battelle interviewed Tony Scott, CTO of GM, in the July 2004 issue of Business 2.0. When you go to a gas station now, you can stick the nozzle into the gas tank and it works. But in the early days of the auto industry, there were 2,000 car companies, nothing was standardized, and demand far exceeded supply. In that early era, you could do whatever you wanted. The tech industry has by and large been in that same mode. But that’s now changing. Today in the typical car, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s a GM or a Honda (HMC),…

Bob Garfield of NPR’s On the Media interviewed Anna Marie Cox, editor of Wonkette. I think that blogging, as a form of journalism, or as a form of writing doesn’t have a lot of rules yet, and it’s clear that it doesn’t need to try and, and hang, you know, the AP Libel Guide on a blog would be a mistake — to try and, like, apply your standard journalistic kind of ethical code seems too constrictive for what blogs are. There has to be something that you figure out maybe just on a day to day basis….

Today’s Wall Street Journal has excerpts from last week’s Walt Mossberg interview of Steve Jobs onstage at D: All Things Digital. The article is available to subscribers only, so I will quote at length. [W]e’ve gone from pretty much zero a year ago to about 2% of the legally sold music in the U.S. That’s not a giant number, but if you look at it and say it’s been accomplished in a year and you look at the trajectory, it’s not inconceivable to see it breaking through 5% in the next 24 months as an example, maybe sooner. We got…