Candace Hammond for the Cape Cod Times:

Carrie-Lee and Matt Touhey, owners of the Cape Cod Cookie Co. have a sweet deal for cookie lovers: Help them grow their business and get cookies.

The Touheys have gone to Indiegogo to get capital to grow their business from a home operation to a commercial bakery.

I know Carrie-Lee because we’re both Cape Cod residents and run in the same social circle, and I tried her cookies early on, back before the Cape Cod Cookie Company was a full-time endeavor for her. They’re outstanding. If you’d like to back a really cool small business with a great product, check out their Indiegogo page.

A social media smack down.

In November of 1970, a month after signing a five-year publishing deal with Chrys­alis Music, 24-year-old David Bowie wrote the following letter to Bob Grace, the man who signed him, and briefly filled him in on his life so far.

Graham Spencer has done a terrific job with his “mapping” series on MacStories.

Rob Pegoraro:

You then watch a parade of executives bantering on about the company’s hopes and dreams and showing off their upcoming wares, which is good and useful–but from the cheap seats, you see no more detail than you’d get from watching video offsite. And except for Sony’s presser, which takes place in its exhibit area at the Las Vegas Convention Center, you rarely get any hands-on time with the new hardware either.

Rob does a good job of summing up the problem with press conference day. I always found CES so big that it was almost impossible to cover. In fact, it’s big enough that even press conferences don’t help reporters like they do at other events.

Poynter’s Matt Thompson has a great article on the use — and misuse — of buzzwords.

Maria Popova has some great letters from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Orr, who has always been reluctant to talk about his many triumphs and has never spoken publicly about his personal relationships, even when they made their way into the headlines, promises to set the record straight on his remarkable life story. While the memoir will include chapters reflecting on the incomparable career of a beloved sports statesman it will also feature the candid thoughts of a man who once lost nearly everything to the treachery of his best friend, then reinvented himself and found renewed success.

I can’t wait to read this.

Johan Johansson gives a great explanation of the three most popular ways to build a mobile Website, complete with pros and cons.

Yes, this is exactly what CES is like.

Mat Honan:

This is a problem for CES, which has never really been a show about software. As software matters more and more, CES matters less and less. The internet is already the world’s largest trade show. Gadget blogs are the new conventions. The hottest products are all in app stores, or on Kickstarter. Sure, big electronics shows offer the opportunity to meet people and forge relationships. But even that transaction is being moved online in the era of real-time social media.

So true.

I love large TVs and was excited when I heard about this big-ass TV, but damn is it ugly.

MG Sielger nailed it. Samsung’s ecosystem is doing great, but nobody else is making any money.

Bob Levine, InDesign Secrets:

There’s a lot of chatter on the internet today, including Twitter, claiming that Adobe is now giving CS2 away for free.

This is simply not true. What is happening is that Adobe has shut down the activation servers for CS2. Because of that, CS2 users were unable to activate if they reinstalled the software. In order to allow these people to continue to use their software Adobe has made available, for download, CS2 software which does not require activation.

Earlier today we (and many other sites) reported that Adobe is giving away its Creative Suite 2 software – long out of date but still useful if you have an older Mac.

Turns out this isn’t the case. Speaking on behalf of Adobe, principal scientist Dov Isaacs cleared up the confusion in a recent post on their forums.

You have heard wrong! Adobe is absolutely not providing free copies of CS2!

What is true is that Adobe is terminating the activation servers for CS2 and that for existing licensed users of CS2 who need to reinstall their software, copies of CS2 that don’t require activation but do require valid serial numbers are available. See <http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1114930>.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be sponsoring two roundtable events in February in an effort to form a partnership with the software community to enhance the quality of software-related patents (Software Partnership). One event will be held in Silicon Valley and the other in New York City.

Now you can bitch to the people that may be able to change it.

Still, last year, France’s largest ISP, Orange (the brand name of France Telecom), managed to strike a deal (Google Translate) with Google that required Mountain View to compensate Orange for some of the traffic it was sending. For months now, Free has tried to put pressure on Google to get a similar deal by throttling YouTube traffic for Free users.

When that didn’t work, Free then implemented its ad block last week—which affected, according to BFM Business (Google Translate), all of Google’s ad servers. This halted ads alongside search, Gmail, and YouTube.

They suspended ad blocking for now to try to work out a deal with Google. Given the precedent, I’m surprised more ISPs aren’t doing this.

The company’s lowest quarterly profit since 2004.

Jason Grigsby:

A few months ago I was tasked with finding a good solution for a client who wanted to move to responsive design, but had a web app that they needed to support as well. The question they asked is one that I’ve seen others argue about in the past: does responsive design make sense for apps?

Fred Wilson offers a nice overview of the subscription model and what’s needed to make it work.

You know you want it.

Bold Poker replaces your deck of cards with iPhones and has been praised by The Loop, Daring Fireball, and Mashable.

Try out Bold Poker at your next poker game. They’ll buy you a Heineken (i.e. give you a full refund) if the app doesn’t change your Texas hold’em home game for the better.

The Chef does everything but cook — that’s what wives are for!

My wife would kick my ass.

[Via Jim Coudal]

Alex McCaw takes a look at CSS transition, those little animations you see around the Web.

Former Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo believes that the future is about creating more knowledge and adding a layer of reputation to the fast-growing internet. And that is why he started Quora, his first real attempt at being a startup CEO.

You can login with your Adobe ID and download a free copy of the apps. Not bad for those still running older computers.

Disregard this – the situation has been clarified in a separate post.

Jon Fingas for Engadget:

Its updated Mindstorms EV3 runs on new Linux firmware that’s ready for Android and iOS control out of the box, creates an overall more hackable platform and allows further programming on the core Intelligent Brick itself; accordingly, there’s an SD card slot for local storage.

Nifty! LEGO Mindstorms NXT supports Windows and Mac, but now you’ll be able to program the Mindstorms “Intelligent Brick” using iOS devices instead. Look for LEGO Mindstorms EV3 in stores later this year for $350.