While we’re at it, this is one I often get wrong.
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January 31, 2012
January 31, 2012
PSA: Please never mispronounce this word again. It’s not that hard.
January 26, 2012
Why Not Try An Infinity-Day Window?
Matt Drance on Warner Bros. idiotic new 56-day DVD rental window:
Also under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of non-skippable ads, free of five-minute load times, and are now nearly three months ahead of the competition.
And:
iTunes changed the music industry because it was more convenient than stealing. Most people made the value judgment that ten bucks for a clean, legal digital album was worth the alternative of fishing around for files that may or may not be damaged or infected.
It’s really — honestly — surprising that Hollywood doesn’t understand such a simple concept. Even stranger is that they can look to the music industry as an example and learn from the mistakes there, but they refuse.
Hollywood isn’t going to die anytime soon — but it won’t be from lack of trying. The pain is coming. In a big way.
January 26, 2012
Mr. Lashinsky, it’s “i before CEO, but not ’til after iMac”
EDIT: wqoq makes a good point in the comments below. Perhaps this is just poorly worded, but accurate, language.
From page 15 of Fortune editor at large Adam Lashinsky’s just-released Inside Apple (emphasis mine):
The next month, Apple announced that Jobs would become interim CEO of Apple until a suitable replacement could be found. It would be three years before Apple made Jobs the permanent CEO. Until then he was known around the company’s headquarters as Apple’s ‘iCEO,’ foreshadowing the i-nomenclature that would permeate Apple’s branding.
Um. No. I don’t think so. I didn’t think so, I should say. Now, I know it’s not so. Ken Segall has told the story of naming iMac a few times. It’s a great story. And Ken wouldn’t tell that story the way he does if the “i-nomenclature” had already existed. But I wasn’t going to rest on my conclusions. A quick Tweet to Ken:
@thomasqbrady: @ksegall Do you know if “iCEO” was in use before iMac was named (and I’m assuming iMac was the first iProduct)? 7:19 PM - 25 Jan 12 via Twitter for iPhone
The reply came fairly quickly:
@ksegall: Yes, iMac was the first i-thing. Steve was “interim CEO” at the start, but started to be called “iCEO” after iMac became a hit.
You may now accuse me of picking a nit, but in the history of Apple, the coining of the “i-nomenclature” marks several turning points all in one: the beginning of Jobs’s tour de force second term at Apple, the spinning up of one of the most powerful ad campaigns in history, the start of a revolution in the PC industry and the product roadmap that got us where we are today — one of the things the I stood for was the integration of the Internet as a core feature.
Seems like an important detail to get right. This book is off to a bad start for me.
January 26, 2012
Really digging Bhi Bhiman. Thanks, BoingBoing! - Brother Brady
January 25, 2012
January 25, 2012
January 24, 2012
Morning 1 as husband/dad/grad student: SUCCESS! Got up at 5 and did some homework (reading), had breakfast ready for Liam by 7:30.
January 21, 2012
January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012
Apple Has Done It Again
Just go watch this video. There’s nothing I can add in describing what they’ve done.
I think iTunes not only brought back the single, but gave indie music a platform.
I think iBooks and iBook Author will do the same for publishing.
iBooks Textbooks, along with the iPad, will finally yank the education and education publishing industries forward about fifty years.
Thank you, Apple. Again.
January 19, 2012
Whoever made this (and, presumably, all at Nike who were involved in at least approving it), +50 to you.
The breakdown is something like
- +10 for the multiple inclusions of Amadeus
- +10 for the inclusion of the weird backwards scene from Twin Peaks
- +7 for Christopher Walken
- +3 for the Christopher Walken clip being from “Weapon of Choice”
- +5 for Ferris Bueller
- +5 for The Office (UK)
- +5 for “Sabotage”
January 18, 2012
January 18, 2012
"When you get a job, it feels so good, because it’s like getting picked for kickball.
….
[But, in reality:]
A job is like a hairshirt, in a lot of ways. I think Milton talked about that."
— Merlin Mann discusses the upside valuation of jobs in Back to Work Episode 50.
January 18, 2012
Fascinating. From asymco.com.
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