When it comes to 2020, “I have tried to keep my sanity is by finding mini-obsessions,” my dear friend Shri writes on her blog. She has been obsessed with bonsais and mechanical keyboards, and she has gone into a rabbit hole, which even she finds challenging. For Shri, for something to count as a mini-obsession: It … Continue reading Infatuation
These are strange days — imagine that if Zoom met the $600-a-share price target set by analysts, then it would have a market capitalization that will exceed that of AT&T. While you ponder that, welcome to yet another Friday in the pandemic. It is so hot in San Francisco that I can’t think straight. How is that for an excuse for not writing today? Instead, I am sharing three good reads.
Who owns the song when AI creates the song? Who owns the music when you use AI to create a song or some art. Tyler Hayes tries to answer the question in this report. [Tyler Hayes]
The pandemic has proved to be a boon for streaming video services. Limelight Networks, a content delivery network, notes that nearly (47 percent of people worldwide subscribed to a new streaming service in the last six months. An average global viewer is watching almost eight hours (seven hours, 55 minutes) per week. In my previous publication, w named this cord-cutting, and it is one of the many reasons we see the slow death of the Great American Cable Bundle. [Bloomberg]
As a diabetic, I know one fact: no sugar is the only good sugar. However, that doesn’t stop researchers from working on a low-calorie variant of real sugar. This long read in the New Yorker is a brilliant exploration of those efforts. [The New Yorker.]
Every time Google tweaks its communication offerings, I am reminded that it has become a gigantic company, with the same dysfunction associated with large industrial companies. Today they had another go at their communication portfolio and naming convention. Here are some of the names of various products — Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo. If you can … Continue reading Poor Comms…
