December 30, 2014

105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell

2 hours 17 minutes

Special guest Jason Snell joins the show for a year-end extravaganza. Topics include Jason’s first three months writing (and podcasting) as an indie at his new Six Colors; a look back at his 20-year career at MacUser and soon thereafter Macworld; tricky edge cases when booking sponsorships, and the whole situation with separating advertising sales from editorial integrity when you’re running a one-person publication; the Sony/North Korea hacking and The Interview, and iTunes’s slightly belated release thereof; and we pour one out for good old Movable Type.

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Links:

McSweeney’s: “Email Addresses It Would Be Really Hard to Give Out Over the Phone” (a classic).

Jason Snell at Six Colors: “No Other Gatekeeper But Me”

Power Computing, the leading Mac clone maker.

Mac clones.

The 1997 merger of MacUser and Macworld.

Chandler reading Macworld on Friends

Daring Fireball piece on software bundles back in 2006: “The Iniquities of the Selfish”.