If you’ve ever tried to use RSS on iOS, Reeder is an app that you’ve must have stumbled upon. Described as the best RSS app for iOS for a long time by most of the tech scene (and replaced by Jared Sinclair’s/SupertopUnread by some Apple podcasters), Reeder is still my go-to app when I have to tackle some of my untidy RSS feed. updated for iOS 7 with Reeder 2, Silvio Rizzi finally releases an update for iOS 8. It’s what can be described as a minor update, but it’s a much needed one.

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So, last Thursday, I posted a blog post about the new Nuzzel iPad app, saying that this update (to the already existing iPhone app) and various feedback from famous writers made me rethink a bit my work-flow. So here I am, more than a week after.

The problem of not being a professional blogger.

So, first, I have to make a huge disclaimer before beginning to talk about my experience : things didn’t go as I would have expected.

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The switch to Squarespace may have broke all the previous links made on Wordpress. To fix this, just put ‘/blog/’ between the domain name (http://lawgier.net) and the “slug” (/2014/10/XX/name-of-the-article) in your address bar. Thanks.

So, here we are, dealing with my need to experiment things. Testing everything. Never be satisfied. Avoir la bougeotte (have ants in one’s pants would be a good translation).

Before launching the website, I moved to many platforms : Ghost, Scriptogr.am, Postach.io, … I had settled for Wordpress for about a month, mainly because I didn’t found a better solution. I had tried Squarespace a bit, but didn’t found what I was looking for. Until today.

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Timothy B. Lee, for Vox :

I mostly agree with my colleague Matt Yglesias’s argument that Amazon is doing the world a favor by crushing book publishers. But there’s at least one way US law gives Amazon excessive power, to the detriment of publishers, authors, and the reading public: ill-conceived copyright regulations lock consumers into Kindle’s book platform, making it hard for new e-book platforms to gain traction.

Both Yglesias’s (linked in the quote) and Lee’s arguments are very interesting for me. But Lee is making a point there. DRM on Amazon eBooks and Kindle devices are awful consumer wise. They are punishing you for buying a book by putting so many restrictions, like not being able to use your book on an another device than an approved Kindle, that you don’t get when you pirate it. And those DRMs are ineffective : hackers always find a way to break them.

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