#interview (15 links)
- Adam Buxton: ‘Craft? Expertise? Not that I can see’ observer.co.uk
- How Linear builds product - by Lenny Rachitsky lennysnewsletter.com
Taste over metrics, product teams over product managers, strategy over OKRs—and the importance of craft, profitability, and good judgment.
This.
- Ian Woolard- Allotment Officer — embra collective embracollective.com
<blockquote>Does the BBC treasure him? Does it understand the talent it has in its possession? "I don't really think so, no. They don't always say yes. If I say I want to do four hours about brutalism, they'll give me two. The last film we had to do in just 19 days. You can't do any fancy set-ups: no cranes, no dollies. It's not slavery, obviously, but it's much more difficult than it used to be. My subjects are regarded as minoritarian and that's a self-fulfilling prophecy. On BBC2, I used to get 2.5 million to 3 million viewers; now I get a tenth of that on BBC4."</blockquote>
Digital had been seeping into our world for about three years and the Napster effect was apparent. Being a small company and working directly with artists, we could really hear and see what was starting to happen. It was a realization that fighting it wouldn’t work; understanding it and being able to grow it was what was going to work. It was a psychological shift for us.
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com blogs.zdnet.com
[A] wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic Web
- Fimoculous.com - misc - A Data Point on Every Block - An Interview with Adrian Holovaty fimoculous.com
Getting local right.
"Wired asked David Byrne — a legendary innovator himself and the man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which the group takes its name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the