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Cory Doctorow

The myth of “programming is the only creativity”

July 16, 2010

One of the often-used memes concerning Apple’s approach to iOS is that it’s for “passive consumers”, people who aren’t creative. In an interesting post on Google App Inventor, O’Reilly’s Mike Loukides dredges this one up again – and I think Mike is committing a classic geek error. Mike contrasts the approach of App Inventor, which [...]

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Cory is wrong, Nick is right

April 3, 2010
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Nick Sweeney is (1) one of the cleverest and most astute people I know and (2) doesn’t post anywhere near often enough. Fact Number Two is probably connected to Fact Number One. In the comments to his post on the iPad, which you should go read right now, he more ably puts the argument against [...]

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