MidRange

By Ernie Smith

Not quite short form, not quite tedious. A less ambitious newsletter by Ernie Smith.

Not ten short items. Not one long item. One mid-range item.

Three times a week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday). With a time limit. ⏲

Previous issues

The Idea Generator 🧠

#157 Jan 27, 2022

The Question I Keep Having 🤨

#156 Jan 25, 2022

The Power of Rhythm 🥁

#155 Jan 24, 2022

#154

Jan 20, 2022

The Long Tail Whips Back 🐊 – The music industry’s deep legacy might have dampened the prospects for new musicians going forward, a
#153

Jan 18, 2022

The Culmination 🔎 – Reflections on a source code release 25 years in the making, something that came about thanks in part
#152

Jan 17, 2022

Filling a Quota 📡 – One of the most controversial networks on the cable dial came into existence for reasons of perceived
#151

Jan 13, 2022

When the Compass Breaks 🧭 – Thinking about an individual developer’s unearned greed in the context of an App Store’s unearned gre
#150

Jan 11, 2022

Cloudy With a Chance of DIY 🌥 – After a couple of frustrating experiences with high-profile cloud services, I’m giving the open-sourc
#149

Jan 10, 2022

Advertising Airball 🏀 – Can you write a more dystopian marketing phrase than “the official COVID-19 home test of the NBA”? Go
#148

Jan 6, 2022

We All Live in Ryan’s World 🚂 – A New York Times Magazine piece makes the case that the toy-driven empire of Ryan’s World, the YouTub
#147

Jan 4, 2022

The Device Graveyard – The reported end of life for classic BlackBerry devices makes me think that we’re about to see a lot
#146

Jan 3, 2022

On Friendships And Seekers 🎤 – Comedian Patton Oswalt chooses an interesting time to highlight his friendship with Dave Chappelle.
#145

Dec 30, 2021

(Finally) Getting The Last Word ✍🏾 – After a year full of really chewy media stories that generated a whole lot of bloggy rants, the one t
#144

Dec 28, 2021

Out of Control 🕹 – With a business structure just as shady as the titles it produced, the most notorious maker of X-rate
#143

Dec 27, 2021

Small Device, Big Impact 💽 – In the first of our year-end awards, a video about the MiniDisc’s surprisingly robust impact highligh
#142

Dec 23, 2021

Lump of Coal 🪨 – How a strangely written email with an unusual source accidentally created a compliance headache for b
#141

Dec 21, 2021

Little Dot, Big Headaches 🔴 – Apple’s efforts to improve privacy on MacOS run into a brick wall for visual artists who find a new f
#140

Dec 20, 2021

Working Past the Mothballs 📼 – With an obscure-yet-surprisingly-relevant sketch that most people were likely unfamiliar with, Saturd
#139

Dec 16, 2021

Money, the Great Insulator 💰 – When it comes to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen selling their catalogs, our opinion of their work no
#138

Dec 14, 2021

Avoid the Cookie Cutter 🍪 – The creator economy is often driven by top-tier success stories, rather than lower-rung sustainabilit

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