Steve Wasserman is an agent working with Jill Kneerim and Ike Williams. Here he is discussing how he got started. Interesting that it was through Christopher Hitchens.
Author: John Farrell
Writer and producer working in Boston.
Apple. Jobs and Flash
Steve Jobs discusses why Apple won’t be adopting Flash for the iPhone or its other mobile devices anytime soon: Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available… Continue reading Apple. Jobs and Flash
Europe in Crisis?
Walter Russell Mead on the financial crisis creeping up on Europe. Central banks exist precisely to puncture this sort of bubble, but the European Central Bank wasn’t focused on the peripheral European economies. The ECB was looking at the big eurozone economies, especially Germany, which was still struggling with the consequences of unification and where… Continue reading Europe in Crisis?
Why the Universe is not a black hole….
Sean Carroll has a nice post explaining why the universe cannot be considered a giant black hole: If there’s any quantitative reasoning behind the question (or claim), it comes from comparing the amount of matter within the observable universe to the radius of the observable universe, and noticing that it looks a lot like the… Continue reading Why the Universe is not a black hole….
Matheson on Meyer
Steve Matheson continues his chapter-by-chapter critique of Meyer’s Signature in the Cell.