Horace Dediu shares my frustration in how most people have no idea what innovation means:

But there is another form of ignorance which seems to be universal: the inability to understand the concept and role of innovation. The way this is exhibited is in the misuse of the term and the inability to discern the difference between novelty, creation, invention and innovation. The result is a failure to understand the causes of success and failure in business and hence the conditions that lead to economic growth.

My contribution to solving this problem is to coin a word: I define innoveracy as the inability to understand creativity and the role it plays in society. Hopefully identifying individual innoveracy will draw attention to the problem enough to help solve it.
I addressed this issue back in 2009.
True examples of innovation are incredible but the amount and frequency this word is abused and misused has made me grow to hate it.

From the WSJ:

Twitter is having no trouble signing up users. But some new research provides an update on the size of an ongoing problem: getting people to tweet.

A report from Twopcharts, a website that monitors Twitter account activity, states that about 44% of the 974 million existing Twitter accounts have never sent a tweet.
I think Twitter is an extremely powerful platform, but I find there’s a lot of noise on it—even when I follow smart, thoughtful people. Interesting links and thoughts are interspersed with trying-to-be-witty one-liners and jokes.
The other aspect I find annoying as fuck about Twitter is how mainstream media have taken it over (one of the more recent reasons I don’t watch much television). The barrage of “follow us” and “use hashtag: #ilovecloroxbleach” really get on my nerves.

via ParisLemon

At Gizmodo, Brent Rose reviews the Samsung Gear Fit:

The software is unforgivably bad. Tragically bad. It feels as if the Gear Fit and the S Health teams barely spoke to each other at all. Which is especially bedeviling since Samsung made the conscious choice to sell a wearable product that only works with Samsung products. At least when Apple locks you into an ecosystem, things actually (mostly) work.

The Gear Fit’s pedometer is inaccurate, the exercise app doesn’t really integrate with S Health, and the sleep data doesn’t go anywhere at all. If you’re outside you need to turn the screen up to full brightness, but it will only stay in that mode for five minutes before reverting to medium brightness. Incredibly frustrating if you’re going for a run that lasts more than five minutes. Touchscreen controls tend to be very unresponsive, too.
This is what happens when Samsung doesn’t have Apple to copy from. They produce dog shit.
Nice work, Samsung.
[schadenfreude: a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people]

WSJ: AngelList’s Newest Experiment: a $25 Million Fund to Invest in Angel Investors:

A new experiment in startup funding could have widespread ramifications for the way venture capitalists place bets on young companies.

On Tuesday, crowdsourced fundraising site AngelList unveiled a new fund that has raised about $25 million from limited partners who traditionally invest in venture-capital funds. The fund, called Maiden Lane, will bet about $200,000 each on the site’s top investors and on select startups picked by them.
…aaaaand Silicon Valley sticks its head up its own ass.

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via Roll the Credits, Johnny via ParisLemon

via io9 via thisisnthappiness

Patrick Thibodeau:

A study of New York City’s tech workforce found that 44% of jobs in the city’s “tech ecosystem,” or 128,000 jobs, “are accessible” to people without a Bachelor’s degree. The category covers any job that is enabled by, produced or facilitated by technology.

For instance, a technology specific job that doesn’t require a Bachelor’s degree might be a computer user support specialist, earning $28.80 an hour, according to this study. That job requires an Associate’s degree.
People who gravitate towards tech jobs tend to be the types who tinker and try to learn stuff on their own anyway.
Then when you factor in sites like SkillShare and Codeacademy where you’re learning tech in it’s ‘natural habitat’, this report makes a lot of sense.
via SlashDot

via DesignTAXI

Reeder 2 for Mac Beta 1 is out.
Bye, bye, Feedly web app.
via 512 Pixels

Wow.
Really, Amazon?