M. Wunsch: The Great Google Goat Rodeo

I’m conflicted about Google as well. So many amazing services, such a cluster**** on product direction and treatment of the consumer. Ultimately, Google making all their money on ads gets creepy. It constantly makes me question whether or not I want to give them personal data. I suspect it does the same for others.

Anyways, M, Wunsch’s post lays it out pretty well…

mwunsch:

I have a serious problem with Google. This is a difficult statement to make, because I don’t think there is one Google. The company is so large, and spans so many interests, that to say something as vapid as “Google is evil” does not adequately portray how complex and sprawling the Google system…

Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform by John O'Nolan — Kickstarter

Kickstarter makes me feel like a VC for all the things I want to see in the world. For example, here’s an interesting project aiming to be the Open Source blogging platform of the future, called “Ghost.” Ghost looks elegant and worthy.

“The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, color-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read. He should also be about my age.”

Anthony Burgess The Paris Review Archival Interviews: 10 Favorite Quotes | Brain Pickings

“As usual, “open” is just lip service. And it works. It works damn well. You wouldn’t believe the amount of nasty feedback I’m going to get for writing this from people who think Google is contributing, out of the goodness of its heart, to the grand benevolent technical cause of whatever “open” means to each of them as they happily hand over more and more of their privacy and data to the very closed vaults of the world’s biggest advertising company.”

Google admits WebM infringes H.264 patents – Marco.org

Damn good paragraph about Google from Marco.