As the world kept him thinking in turns so would the blank, empty, undiluted space in the upper right corner of his unimaginative American blog. It left itself for last - as if it knew it was much too smart for him - as if the search bar that had once been there was an overture to another space in time - as if that corner meant more than it really did.
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Links found on the web and annotated with my thoughts. These may either be rather short, “look at this” type posts or they could inspire long winded rants that circle back to some strange point.
Digital magazines were an experience in search of a platform – iPad is that platform.
The following was clipped from the blog of Digital Edition provider nxtbook media. In it is a link to my last post on the role the iPad and traditional publishers might play in the development of digital information products that provide a bit of focused yin to the web’s (or more accurately the desktop’s) inevitable [...]
Publishing, iPad and the strategies of self-control.
The following clip from Steven Pinker’s op-ed in the 6/11/10 New York Times does a good job of answering concerns that the Internet is having a negative impact on our cognitive function. In the piece, which is worth reading in full, Pinker reminds us that the Internet will only make us stupid if we let [...]
There’s no crying in iPad magazine publishing…
Let’s be clear about something: this idea that magazine publishers are hesitant to get into a relationship with Apple because the publishers won’t be able to “control the consumer relationship” is essentially horse-shit.
While I’m not sure how many publishers are actually operating under that assumption (would not be surprised if it were an [...]
Do publishers have the stomach to do what’s really needed?
Both Clay Shirky and Kent Anderson (who does a masterful job of illuminating Shirky’s original “Complexity” argument in the clip below) expose what’s really happening in the great 21C media shakeout. It’s an argument I’m familiar with and it’s an argument I’ve been trying to make for some time – media (or more specific to [...]
Thought Update: Until the Tea Party comes out in favor…
Until the Tea Party comes out in favor of ending the drug war, leagalizing prostitution, and unfettered access to abortion I simply cannot accept their anti government rhetoric and talk of tyranny as anything other than political cover for something el…
Thought Update: Why is it that Tea Partiers are so…
Why is it that Tea Partiers are so outraged over the goverment mandating, providing access to and in some cases even subsidizing low cost health care yet remain silent as The Patriot Act gets renewed?
Detroit as the next great American artists colony.
Detroit has taken a beating— it’s essentially dead. With median home prices hanging around used car territory much of the city’s real estate sits empty and decaying. Jobs are few and far between. When looked at through the prism of any traditional economic marker the situation is bleak.
This is despair.
This is [...]
Why I don’t like Wired’s “iPad” demo.
Aside from the usual problems I have with publishers getting all obsessed with output format something else about this beautiful demo really irks me: the fact that this thing will NOT run on an iPad. It’s an AIR/Flash/Adobe creation and I’m sure nobody needs reminding on the current status of the Apple/Adobe relationship. So, given [...]
Why ideas are core to Enterprise 2.0 – via @bhc3
The following clip from Hutch Carpenter drips with insight on how ideas can operate as social objects in the enterprise. One of the things I wrestle with on a daily basis is how to use social tools and technology to organically stimulate innovation and collaboration across the organization. It’s a tragic mistake to [...]
Thought Update: As much as Toyota was emblematic of efficient…
As much as Toyota was emblematic of efficient 20th Century manufacturing process they are symptomatic of the how the opaque communications culture of 20th Century organizations play in a 21st Century firmly fixed on transparency.
