(These three are courtesy DaringFireball.) I rarely play games on the computer, but Peggle comes recommended if I ever change my mind. While the main theme is ranging all over the Mac world, I mostly listened to the music at the bottom. I didn’t know about the Flickr guest pass either.
Seth Godin and Hugh Macleod converse, covering lots of ground. One tidbit:
Question from Hugh: A lot of your books seem to be continuations of conversations you started with your seminal book, “Purple Cow”. Meatball Sundae I’d say would qualify, as would “Free Prize Inside” and “All Marketers Are Liars”. But then your last book, “The Dip”, was about something relatively unrelated. Do you find yourself, as an author, often feeling pulled in two different directions?
Answer from Seth: I worry about Neal Stephenson and I worry about Robert Parker.
Snowcrash and Diamond Age were brilliant books, seminal stuff that actually changed the world. That gave Neal the power to pretty much write what he wanted, but what he wants to write, it turns out I don’t want to read. I think he lost a great opportunity and I feel the loss.
Robert Parker hit it big with Spenser novels, but every one is so similar, I can’t remember which ones I’ve read and which ones I haven’t.
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Separately, Godin notes: “The web is like crack for someone with ADD, I’ll tell you that.”
I care little about Ruby or Rails, but I do want to make time for a good rant.
A wonderful reminder about reading: teach the kids to love the act, and worry about what they read later. The boy’s devouring words, and the girl is clearly on the verge of making the jump. Letters are old news, and words are starting to become known objects. I can’t wait. Selfishly, I’d like to leave Clifford behind. Generously, I envy her the jump into millions of “nows” — those moments you can’t experience yourself, except through a book.