The past two years around this time, I've laid out the Mandel Plan for a revamped college football postseason. It's a detailed, practical and -- most importantly -- realistic model for a plus-one playoff that more often than not would solve whatever BCS controversy hovers over a given season. On the…

Exhibit A in the case against Walter Isaacson’s flawed Jobs biography: Malcolm Gladwell in last week’s New Yorker, arguing that Jobs was “a tweaker” : In 1779, Samuel Crompton, a retiring genius from

I expected the Kindle Fire to be good for books, great for magazines and newspapers, great for video, and good for apps and games. In practice, it’s none of these. Granted, I’ve only spent two days wi

When I was developing an RSS reader, users often asked me if I would make it sync via Dropbox (or WebDAV or iDisk or similar). For a while, years ago, before Dropbox existed, my reader did sync by wri

I first came across the phrase social graph in 2007, in an essay by Brad Fitzpatrick , though I'd be curious to know if it goes back further. The idea of representing relationships between people as n

Our son was born March 12th, 2009 . He's a little over two and a half years old. Now, I am the wussiest wuss to ever wuss up the joint, so take everything I'm about to say with a grain of salt – but c

Monday, Oct. 24, 2011 Entrepreneurs Who Go It Alone — By Choice In the fall of 2007, Marco Arment was working as lead developer at Tumblr, the social network and blogging platform, when he noticed that he kept losing the links to interesting stories that he didn't immediately have time to read. So…

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Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco , has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed