- Charles Holland on Inception – A sober but enthusiastic view of Inception, noting its ludicrousness while loving its film-within-a-film complexities. Like a very, very good episode of Doctor Who on an unlimited budget, he says, rather explaining my misgivings: I don’t much like Doctor Who’s delight in story mechanics over, well, just telling a good story, which is why Inception didn’t quite enthral me.
- Wired: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown – Nice piece on the commercial realities of AT&T’s experiences with its exclusive iPhone deal. Turns out that scaling up its data network to meet iPhone’s (plus Blackberry and other smart phones’, surely) demands has already cost the company $37 billion, with another $14 billion this year.
- FT’s CEO on why paywalls are commercially and morally necessary – “The paper’s digital subscribers reached 149,047 at the end of June, up 27% year on year and 17,000 up from January.” Kinda think you need the specialisation, market type and scale of the FT to have this sort of success.