February 2010
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Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design →
A new way of telling stories
“Editors have been telling us for years that people won’t read long stories online. Yet they will read 1,000-page novels on their Kindles. What will they be willing to read on their iPad? I predict the return of long-form journalism. At the same time, visual storytelling will take deeper, richer forms. Information design will be more important than ever. Something...
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Fraser Speirs on the iPad →
The tech industry will be in paroxysms of future shock for some time to come. Many will cling to their January-26th notions of what it takes to get “real work” done; cling to the idea that the computer-based part of it is the “real work”.
It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the...
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Stop dreaming
People who say that are blaspheming
They’re doing nine to...
– From ‘Stay Positive’ by The Streets
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to...
– Henry David Thoreau
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The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV →
It’s become a TV ritual: Every year in mid-January, around the time of Martin Luther King’s birthday, we get perfunctory network news reports about “the slain civil rights leader.” The remarkable thing about this annual review of King’s life is that several years — his last years — are totally missing, as if flushed down a memory hole. What TV viewers see is a closed...
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I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious...
– From Martin Luther King’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1964
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