Todd Simmons

The downfall of Nokia is a classic story of disruptive innovation. This article does a great job of analyzing it: techcrunch.com/2012/12/31/nok…

Should EA and other game publishers rethink their close ties to firearms manufacturers in the wake of Newtown? nytimes.com/2012/12/25/bus…

@johnewarren Oh, I missed that. The winner looks like a vintage sci-fi book cover: irrationalgames.com/insider/poll/ Good choice, internet!

Great explanation from Ken Levine about why the box art for games (including Bioshock Infinite) is often bland: wired.com/gamelife/2012/…

Daniel Pink says predatory sales tactics are outdated. The best “sellers” are ambiverts who can listen and improvise: npr.org/2012/12/31/168…

After tanking Hillary’s 2008 campaign, Mark Penn has now been hired by Microsoft to run ads smearing Google: nytimes.com/2012/12/15/tec… Classy!

I’m not into skiing, but this NYTimes piece about an avalanche is an amazing example of online/multimedia storytelling: nytimes.com/projects/2012/…

Fantastic article about capturing the unique character of vintage monitors and hardware in software emulators: ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3786

Anil Dash says the web has lost its original focus on openness, standards, data portability, etc: dashes.com/anil/2012/12/t… I totally agree!

It’s awesome that T-Mobile is moving to an entirely subsidy-free model. This unbundling will help spur innovation: theverge.com/2012/12/6/3736…