Apple just unveiled a seemingly neat new App Store feature — the ability to download an older version of an app if the latest version of that app requires a newer version of iOS than the one you have installed on your device. Sounds great, right? Kyle Richter raises some interesting questions about it, though:

No one ever told us [developers] about it. Let me rephrase that, because it sounds pretty entitled. No developer expects Apple to run this kind of stuff by them ahead of time. The problem is no one ever thought this was a possibility. The common misconception here is when an app is updated it is updated to add new features and maybe some bug fixes. These new features may require a newer version of iOS so old users are left in the cold. The truth is a lot happens under the covers during updates, API endpoints are updated, data models changed, multiplayer protocols changed, even legal issues are addressed.

The likelihood of any complex app, especially anything API driven, working after several years of neglect are slim.

I pushed a new version of Slogger to the GitHub repository this morning. For those who don’t care about all the nitty gritty, just head for the main page and download the zip.

This update incorporates OAuth, and thus has some additional requirements. If you want to log Twitter, though, these are needed.

The first thing you need to do is update your install. You’ll probably want to unzip the download and manually overwrite all of the files in the root, and then put the plugins in the right folders to enable/disable based on your needs.

Next, you need to head for the command line if you’re not already there. Change to your Slogger folder and run these commands:

sudo gem install bundler
bundle install

That will install all of the necessary pieces to get this working. Twitter is the only plugin using this at this point, though a couple more are in the wings. If you’re using TwitterLogger, you’ll need to run it once to configure. Use ./slogger -o twitter to run just that plugin, and follow the instructions on the command line. When you’ve authenticated, your credentials will automatically be stored in slogger_config. Don’t mess with ‘em.

Hopefully this works out for everyone. Blame Twitter for the inconvenience, and let me know if you have questions. I might answer them, eventually.

Vice heads to the Hollywood Wax Museum, with comic results.

Remember a few weeks ago when The Chicago Sun-Times fired its entire photography staff and claimed they could replace them with reporters armed with iPhones? Here’s the result.

And there’s still so much I’ve left off. Standards (the lack thereof, really) have failed us. There’s money to be made! Tell us what your biggest gripe is on Facebook, or Twitter, or you know, any of the other ten trillion services there are. I need a nap.

Indonesian artist Ichwan Noor made this amazing thing, a 1953 Volkswagen Beetle formed into a sphere: