Author: Connor Tomas O’Brien

I’ve spent a great slice of this year overseeing a bunch of talented contributors as one third of the On Dit magazine editorial team. If you’re interested in working in the media, or just want to contribute to the conversation going on around you, there’s nothing I could recommend more highly than writing, illustrating, or…

I’ve read a bunch of considered reviews of the Kindle 3 (my favourite being Marco Arment’s, because his work on Instapaper means he’s more conscious than most as to how one’s choice of hardware can affect the reading experience). My problem is that most reviews seem to focus in on the physical nitty-gritty – keyboard,…

Just read Frank Chimero’s The Back Side of Your Gullet is Decadent and Depraved. There’s a lot to take away from Chimero’s little series, particularly if you happen to worry about precisely the stuff that Chimero worries about (which is to say, anybody who creates, and, probably, anybody with a soul). Chimero hits on a…

Kyle Baxter: Pageviews don’t say much—they’re a signal, at best, that something you wrote is getting attention, but it doesn’t indicate whether it’s getting attention from the people you want. Scott Berkun: When I was younger I thought busy people were more important than everyone else. Otherwise why would they be so busy? I had…

“Facebook users are pouring their hearts and souls into this system and it is tossing them into the proverbial circular file,” says Scott Rosenberg in a post looking at whether we can trust social networking sites with our history. This is the real issue I have with Facebook: it’s going to go down, and it’s…