February 2012
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AAPL Orchard: Not Everyone Copies Apple →
Focus.
aaplorchard:
“[Apple is] going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.”
- Tim Cook in his first email to Apple employees as Apple’s new CEO sent August 25, 2011
“The path [Sony] must take is clear: to drive the…
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Instapaper Founder Marco Arment On The App Economy →
My goal has never been to dominate the market. My goal has always just been to just make a living.
Makes using and paying for this service that much more satisfying.
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Congress: FAA must open airspace to drones by 2015 →
dronejournalism:
An FAA budget bill awaiting the president’s signature requires the FAA to open the nation’s airways to drones by Sept. 30, 2015 and provide a plan on how to do that due nine months after the bill passes. From the story:
The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for...
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Breaking Bad RPG →
You’ve unlocked HEISENBERG!
Brilliant!
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January 2012
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18 Days in Egypt on Kickstarter →
“18 Days in Egypt” has 18 days to go to reach its goal of $18k:
In an interesting twist, it currently has 81 backers.
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Keep It In Your Pants: Smartphone Etiquette at... →
You’ve joined your significant other on the couch to watch the latest Breaking Bad. As the episode plays, may you play Words With Friends with your college roommate?
Wait. Breaking Bad is possibily the only show on TV that you really need to pay attention to. So… NO!
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Kern Type, the kerning game →
Late to the game… but thoroughly enjoyed this, and I’m extremely impressed. Brilliant… and fun.
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“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I used this thought in a conversation yesterday and was hoping to get the actual quote. Found it. (via: brainyquote)
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Average Is Over →
In a world where average is officially over, there are many things we need to do to buttress employment, but nothing would be more important than passing some kind of G.I. Bill for the 21st century that ensures that every American has access to post-high school education.
But this still doesn’t resolve the issue of knowing “What (We) Really Need to Know.”
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RIM co-CEOs stepping down in a “surprise exit” →
Excellent illustration to make a point.
“Someone else can take it from here.”
This is also brilliant… and timely.
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NFB/Interactive - Bear 71 →
Bear 7: sometimes it’s hard to tell where the wired world ends and the wild one begins.
I appreciate @NFB’s adventure for interactive storytelling. More from @TheNextWeb.
Bear 71 from National Film Board of Canada on Vimeo.
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My Future of Writing
Apple’s new textbook, and really, publishing initiative with iBooks & iBook Author reminds me of PressPausePlay’s interview with Seth Godin from last year:
Me, a laptop and the Internet. The lesson is… this changes everything. The industry is dead.
If this works, and it looks pretty good from the first three days, Apple would have a solid foothold in establishing the...
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What You (Really) Need to Know →
… the difficulty of reforming a curriculum with the difficulty of moving a cemetery.
Excellent way to put it.
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It doesn’t take Cupertino to make textbooks... →
Interactivity doesn’t exist. More properly, everything is interactive. We use the catch-all term “interactivity” to brand as novel the qualities exhibited by digital objects striving to be like real-world objects.
True in so many cases.
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The day the bookshelf shook: Four lessons for news... →
Once books stop being only finished, whole things — when they can also be works in progress, works in development — the possibilities for journalists open up. Imagine a book on the health-care reform debate that could be updated with each twist and turn, adding profiles of the players, daily news updates, legislative summaries, and more as the story developed.
Not a bad idea.
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The Rise of the New Groupthink →
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible,” Picasso said.
I don’t think solitude is enough. There also needs to be stillness as well as purpose. But certainly solitude is key.
Virtually all American workers now spend time on teams and some 70 percent inhabit open-plan offices, in which no one has “a room of one’s own.”
I struggle with this with my team. It’s also one...
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Android projected to eclipse PC sales in 2012, iOS... →
Actually… if you combine both iOS (iPhone & iPad), the number of unit ships already exceeds PC sales. And if you include all Apple products, it would dwarf the rest.
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The 2011 Documentary Oscars: My Shortlist →
When I see a list of movies like this on a page, I wish there was a “Add all to Netflix Queue” button.
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Tablet computers take wait out of waiting tables →
Who needs service with a smile? Not 26-year-old Ivan Tsurikov. “I actually dread human interaction of any kind,” he said. “That’s why Tsurikov, who works for a small investment firm on the Peninsula, prefers to order his…”
I wouldn’t go as far as saying I dread human interaction but it’s hard to argue that a system like this isn’t better...
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Silicon Valley's New Secret Weapon: Designers Who... →
If you want to ship great products… consider having a designer in your founding group.
Yes. And to be clear, this is about the design experience and NOT necessarily about visual design which I think some people confuse and make synonymous.
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Job Listing: Openings in Online Media on... →
Some folks have been critical about my requiring several layered skill sets in hiring for multimedia producers but…. wow… some organizations now require knowledge in social media and mobile technologies in addition to requiring “a good understanding of multimedia components.”
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Between Notes - Official Trailer (by BFM Creative)
I guess I should point out that we were a little disappointed with this film. It was a bit more “patient” than we were expecting.
However, if you like a movie cut as a LP music video… and can appreciate an indy film with real musicians… this is worth your rental.
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory →
Mike Daisey was a self-described “worshipper in the cult of Mac.” Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out.
Daisey’s one-man show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” has been on my radar for awhile since the paper has run a number of...
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