After the brouhaha that got kicked up over my comments about Flipboard last week, I had an initially somewhat awkward but eventually very pleasant conversation on Tuesday with Mike McCue, CEO of Flipboard, who wanted to discuss what he thought I missed in my post on Flipboard, Google Currents and other comparable products.
Watching Heart perform Stairway to Heaven for the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones) and Barack and Michele Obama.
Cruz says conservatives should hold Republican officeholders “accountable” for shutting down his government shutdown.
Every so often I like to look at the trends in the technology our readers use to access the site. What kind of computers, what kinds of operating systems, mobile or desktop, etc. There’s a lot of interesting data in the latest numbers. But for anyone who’s been on the web back into the 90s, here’s the most striking piece of information. Fewer than 50% of the visits to TPM now come from computers running a windows operating system.
We’ve had a number of questions for people who had various issues renewing their Prime Launch Member subscriptions. Answers after the jump.
Heritage Foundation’s new Obamacare study touted by Ted Cruz and others finds that “individuals in most states will end up spending more on the exchanges” — but leaves out one key bit of math.
TPM is hiring a Video Newswriter to work in our New York City office. Details below:
Fox News mobilizes an army of professional comment sock puppets to counterattack critics.
This morning we got this email from TPM Reader RN …
Hi Josh, I have been writing software for 35 years and have to say that these quotes from the NYT article are very suspicious
“One specialist said that as many as five million lines of software code may need to be rewritten before the Web site runs properly.”
“According to one specialist, the Web site contains about 500 million lines of software code.”