Anil Dash has A Brief History of Apple’s iWatch — a must-read if you follow tech news like I do.
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Business Insider has a fun article on Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture. Includes some quotes from me about how we work, including “Rather than being anti-office, we’re more location agnostic” and the top five meetup locations so far (Lisbon, Portugal; Kauai; San Francisco; Amsterdam; Tybee Island, Georgia).
Bruce Schneier on The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership. Packed with good links as well.
Steve Denning writes convincingly on the crumbling myth of shareholder value as the primary driver of companies.
David Cowan writes as A Contrarian Futurist, with thoughts on wearable computing and cyber warfare.
WP Daily has a post that is interesting both for the dozens of pictures of WordPress cakes and confections from yesterday as well as a good roundup of posts about the 10th anniversary.
On (Un)organized Consumption by Automattician Cheri Lucas. “I stopped using Instapaper. Early on, I relied on it as a space to store ideas and information I could draw from, but it quickly became my intellectual limbo: the unfortunate vault of forgotten stories and Twitter residue.”
Marissa Mayer announces the new Yahoo hompage, on a WordPress-powered blog.
I was interviewed by Fast Company on How To Have A Virtual Meeting, which they turned into a neat article.
The new reader for WordPress.com is live and I’m really proud of the product and the team.
“And now there’s a Rolls Royce. I would believe literally anything you told me was about to happen right now.” This Verge post on Qualcomm’s insane CES 2013 keynote is the funniest thing I’ve read or seen all year.
Dylan Tweney writes on how to take back control of your own social networks.
A lawyer’s home base on the web is their blog, by Kevin O’Keefe.
Erick Jeckert has made a maze with my face and the WordPress logo.
Voters boot three SOPA-sponsoring Hollywood allies from Congress, though the new people might have similar views on such legislation, don’t know yet.
Let’s Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them, by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement (and WordCamp SF 2010 speaker).
What I Learned Building Medium (So Far), by Evan Williams.
Pandora and Artist Payments, about how Pandora is paying out millions of dollars to artists but is only 6.5% of the US radio listening audience, the fees the rest pay are far, far lower.