105: ‘George Lucas Called’ With Guest Jason Snell

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”.
• Wilfredo Sanchez’s crackerjack whitepaper from 2000: “The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments”.
• Lycos, not dead yet.
• John Gruber, Dan Moren, and Jason Snell talking about Raiders of the Lost Ark on episode 8 of The Incomparable back in 2010.