A reminder that even a team of respected actors – Hoffman, Freeman, Spacey & Sutherland – can’t deliver a terrible script.
(My wife’s favourite film ever)
Rotten Tomatoes: 60% (Fresh)
iBooks Author & Push Pop Press
Create and publish amazing Multi-Touch books for iPad
The textbooks push is interesting, but I think the implications of iBooks Author are far wider.
There are so many apps that could now be done as iBooks without any developer involvement.
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An excellent tweet from Mike Matas:
Even though I no longer work for Apple apparently I’m still designing some of their products. pushpoppress.com ➜ apple.com/education
(Matas moved from Apple to found Push Pop Press who published the incredible Al Gore – Our Choice e-book app before being acquired by Facebook)
Great news for the future of e-books as Push Pop Press really got it right.
“Real artists steal”
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GCHQ Bude
GCHQ – Britain’s signal intelligence service – has a listening station in Bude, Cornwall.
Bude is also a major cable landing point where several Transatlantic submarine telecoms cables come ashore.
Coincidence! Let’s just assume everything goes through their systems.
PS – Hi guys!
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Wikipedia Anti-SOPA Blackout
Wikipedia’s blackout page (screenshot):
Imagine a world without free knowledge
I don’t disagree with Twitter’s Dick Costolo responding to calls that Twitter, etc. should join in:
That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
SOPA is a US issue, which admittedly has far-reaching consequences on paper.
In reality I doubt it will have any impact whatsoever, whether passed or not.
And, over here, everyone’s talking about Wikipedia, not SOPA.
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NYT on iPad
Watching the Page One documentary, I picked up on an interesting insight from the NYT’s Media Editor, Bruce Headlam, at the time of the announcement of the iPad:
There’s lots of people who think that Apple saved the music business – they didn’t save it on the music business’s terms. There’s lots of people in the music business saying it’s incredibly punishing dealing with those guys … What makes anybody think that’s going to be different for publishers?
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BBC Radio 4 Media Show Podcast – The Future of TV
Interesting discussion on the future of TV (on-demand streaming) from a UK point of view, including an interview with Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO).
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How To Work From Home Like You Mean It
When there are hard, regular deadlines and a constant flow of work, it is just like being at an office–with the added advantage that nobody else is there to interrupt my train of thought with an impromptu visit. And then there were times when I nearly broke down and told the boss the truth about why that weeklong project was in such sad shape: Because just when I need to focus it becomes clear that there are a lot of interesting links to look at on the Internet. Like this one.
Having worked from home for the past 3 years, never have I read a truer thing.
(via Shawn Blanc)
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Guardian: Sh*t Republican candidates say
Rick Santorum: “One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country. It’s not OK. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
From a UK point of view, it’s frightening that US election-winning issues include abortion, gay marriage & military, and now contraception.
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BBC: Skyscrapers ‘linked with impending financial crashes’
There is an “unhealthy correlation” between the building of skyscrapers and subsequent financial crashes
This and the Vertu story make an interesting combination.
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Page One: Inside the New York Times
Finally got around to this excellent documentary – some fascinating insights from David Carr on the NYT’s Media Desk.
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