"Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place."

"Apple released iLife for Macintosh in January 2003. Every year or so, the suite gets better, with no Windows developer offering anything comparable. Isn’t it about time?" "By controlling the dominant digital media content creation stack, Macs are hugely popular among important influencers."

This summarises the problem I have with a lot of photography courses. They're good at the second, "hard", bucket - camera settings - but as a geek I picked that lot up almost without effort. The first, and especially the third, are much more difficult for me, but I've found that the one course I did spent far too little time on either. Oh well. Try a new course, I suppose.

"We’re not all in the position to spend three weeks floating across the ocean on our own industrial versions of Walden Pond, but I think these types of retreats are only going to get more appealing. "

Two days, two O'Reilly books to add to the purchase list. "a manifesto of ways to stay creatively alive; a portfolio of stunning photographs, with commentaries describing her experiences and thought process"

"you cannot make culture with this device, not unless you construct “making culture” as everything you’re doing when you use the iPhone. Consume, yes" I almost did this rant when Front Row debuted, and I still think it's a concern for me. also: YouT