I won’t waste time adding to the overwhelming volume of Steve Jobs eulogies other than to suggest the best things I have read so far are the reprints appearing in the New Yorker (See Galdwell’s Creation Myth) and the Rolling Stone (See The 1994 interview with Jobs).
With Steve Jobs officially calling it a day it seems like a good a time as any to call it a day on the Excapite experiment here on WordPress.
After all if Steve Jobs has one lesson to teach all us is it is the science of execution rather than the art of ideas that counts more when it comes to being successful in business.
But don’t despair if you are still seeking your weekly fix of MobCon Theory and the Fauxionary economics of the So.Me. I am in the process of moving the blog across to Blogger. The primary reason being the iPad app for WordPress in basically unusable and the web interface is not much better. Plus the stats engine on Blogger appears to be better.
The latest post explores the economics behind Marc Anderssen’s Why software is eating the world and discovers (somewhat surprisingly) that the business models of the Web 2.0 start-ups are no more efficient (indeed most appear to be less efficient) than their “old school” equivalents.
You can read the post here… The business of profiting from bits.
ARJWright
August 28, 2011
Another digital retirement
Will be following you on the new site. You’ve given me much to think, ink, and reconsider on my end.
As for WordPress iPad app, it’s horrible. The web UI isn’t much better. I have just moved to using Evernote for writing posts and sending them to WordPress by email and that seems to work nicely.
Looking forward to continuing the conversation.