Robert Krulwich tries to understand why global warming deniers are so angry about it. Insightful.
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What Went Wrong with Kodak
David DiSalvo, on how Kodak failed to react to market forces in time:
The fall of the company that George Eastman built is perhaps the most salient commentary on the new economy in recent memory, and tells an unfortunate story about much of America’s industrial base. Monolithic, inflexible and unable to keep up with the shifts and turns of disruptive technology, once great companies like Kodak can’t survive without exhaustive restructuring. Hopefully, other U.S. companies have been watching and learning.
Nathan Rabin’s Exhaustive, Wonderful Interview with Louie CK
As I mentioned when I wrote about Todd VanDerWerff’s interview of Community-creator Dan Harmon, I believe that the extensive, long-form interviews that the AV Club does with showrunners are so valuable that they actually contribute to our culture in a way that nearly rises to the level of the original works themselves.
This time around, it’s Nathan Rabin who gets the honor to interview Louie CK and run down every episode of Louie’s brilliant second season:
Well-worth the huge length of time it will take you to get through it (and with much less self-loathing than the Harmon interview!).
To Hear
A 29-year old woman who has been deaf for her entire life activates a cochlear implant and hears herself clearly for the very first time:
It is moving to see someone receive a gift that we all take for granted every day. Videos like this show us all how blessed we really are.
Why The Kindle Fire Won’t Disrupt the iPad
Horace Dediu lays out the case against the Kindle Fire as a low-end tablet disruption. In the long-term, I’m convinced that Dediu is correct, but I think there’s a significant possibility that the Fire is going to steal away some market share from the iPad in the short-term.
I posit that most people don’t need something that’s technologically cutting-edge to scratch that tablet itch. And if you give them a choice between a $200 tablet that can do most things they need, or a $500 that can do slightly more things, the choice will be pretty obvious.
Stephen Tobolowsky on ‘Weekday’ Live
Yesterday, Stephen Tobolowsky went to Seattle, Washington to perform “The Tobolowsky Files” live at a fundraiser on Vashon Island. While in the area, he stopped by the Neptune Theatre for a live recording of ‘Weekday’ live on KUOW, Seattle’s premiere public radio station. I was sad that I could not make it out there, but thankfully, we can listen to his interview on ‘Weekday’ live right here.
I’ve been working on “The Tobolowsky Files” for two years now. For two years, I have tirelessly produced and edited each episode and promoted the show at every possible turn. It has consumed hundreds of hours of my life, and I have received essentially no financial compensation for it. But as I listened to the interview begin and heard the audience of hundreds cheering his name when “The Tobolowsky Files” was invoked…man, there is nothing like it.
Become a Noun
Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole explain the perils of having “your entire life reduced to a single definition”:
Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun from NPR on Vimeo.
The Statistics Behind The Red Sox’ Historic Collapse
Love when Nate Silver brings the power of statistical analysis to something like this:
[Y]ou get a combined probability of about one chance in 278 million of all these events coming together in quite this way. When confronted with numbers like these, you have to start to ask a few questions, statistical and existential.