Stating the Obvious is a collection of brief essays on technology, business and culture. It launched in the summer of 1995, back when we were young.

Recent pieces:

• Notes on Photoshop Album, September 24, 2003. A review of Photoshop's consumer photo management application, and thoughts on how other tools could learn from the way it enables the easy application and use of metadata.
• 2x2: Information Consumption, August 11, 2003. Mapping my information-consumption products into a simple 2x2.
• The Idea of Wired, August 4, 2003. A non-review of Gary Wolf's book Wired: A Romance.
• Excerpt from "Next Gen iPod", July 28, 2003. A brief excerpt from a concept doc outlining potential features of the next generation iPod.

If you're looking for the old old archives (which have been put out to pasture for no particular reason), you can find them here.

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Stating the Obvious is published by Michael Sippey, a Managing Director at Quris who has a proper "Web Log" at sippey.com. You can reach him via at michael at theobvious dot com.

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