Gruber on Steve Jobs

http://daringfireball.net/2009/01/godspeed

Unlike many others in the technical (and financial) press, I “demand” to know nothing further. If this is all Jobs chooses to share regarding the specific details of what ails him, that is up to him. But it’s very difficult to read this any other way than that where Jobs says “more complex”, he means “worse”.

The end of June is nearly six months away, and considering last week’s statement that Jobs was “getting to spend the holiday season with [his] family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote”, it seems possible that he’s already been on a reduced schedule since last month. Six months is a long time, especially for someone like Jobs who clearly loves his job. As a point of reference, after Jobs had surgery for pancreatic cancer at the end of July 2004, he was back to work part-time a little over one month later, and full-time another month after that.

So even if his health issues are not life-threatening, they are obviously quite serious. There’s not a word in today’s announcement that can be interpreted as good news, other than his closing: “I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.” Right back at you, Steve.

Mary Rambin is the Dr. Phil of blogging.

http://theressomethingaboutmary.tumblr.com/post/70830602/so-all-the-new-reade...

Also, a touch of humility wouldn’t hurt. You are not entitled to anything. You act as if this blogging is a burden for you to bear like we should feel sorry for you for the choice you made. You are laying in the bed you made. For better or for worse, you knew what you were getting into, you continue to do it, and then you whine and cry about the flipside. No one feels sorry for you. No one is grateful for it, you aren’t saving lives. You are choosing to put yourself out there hoping to make money. With those kinds of intentions, you get these kinds of reactions. There is nothing genuine about you, nothing to root for. None of you are underdogs.

… I just don’t feel like you are using the platform you have created in a genuine positive way. You all walked off the set of Clueless and made blogs, linked them together and “like totally talk about clothes and boys and cell phones and feelings”.

NonSociety: Julia

http://julia.nonsociety.com/post/70370241

“…and, yes, responding to my 5,312 (that’s the EXACT number in my inbox at this current moment) reader emails … well. It’s a miracle I EVER post on this lifecast.”

What Ms. Allison seems to forget as of late is that if there is no content, there is no Non Society, and all of those other millions of tasks will manage to sort themselves out (or rather, become irrelevant) when her readers finally get bored and move on to a blog that is actually updated with real content.

“Flash in the pan” I think is the term which would most accurately describe the blogging career of Julia Allison. With most of her lifestream these days consisting of overexposed photo shoot outtakes and a never ending stream of complaints about how hard it is to be a “professional blogger” (I am airquoting here with a ferocity that threatens to poke out the eyes of anyone within reach)… I, for one, am done. Hitting the unsubscribe button on over a year and half of Non-Stop-Julia-Allison-Action.

Next, maybe, I’ll give up smoking.