John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin revisit complaints about Siri's apparent biases, reconsider the fake-book chrome in iBooks, explore an interesting new conception of an Apple TV set, and use John Gruber's appearance on The Verge as a jumping off point for examining partisanship in technology writing. Plus a bonus epilogue about the evolution of Twitter.

Links for this episode:

  • How I’d Build an Apple Television Set - Guy English
  • Siri, Sexism, and Silicon Valley - The American Prospect
  • Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky in The Verge Forums
  • Isaacson: Jobs biography could expand - Fortune
  • On The Verge, Episode 002: John Gruber
  • Is Innovation Valuable? - Asymco
  • The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica

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