Quentin Stafford-Fraser's blog
One should always have something sensational to read on the net...
I think this is fabulous.
The video is worth watching, at least for those of you who haven't already considered the possibility of sticking your Mac to the outside of a train using suction cups....
Great advertising opportunities here.
A very interesting week, this one.
Is this, perhaps, the most stylish way to carry your files around? Well, it would certainly go nicely with my riding crop and hip flask...
Available from Red Envelope. Thanks to Adam for the link.
...you'll probably like Logorrhea.
One of the things I discovered when I moved from academia and research into the business world is that there are an awful lot of rules that you're supposed to follow. A lot of received wisdom, and if you are reluctant to receive it, you won't get taken seriously by others. That's a problem if you are dependent on them for funding, for orders, for recruitment or whatever. Things that seem to normal people as if they might be a good idea because, say, you'd buy one and all your friends would too, are countered with a whole barrage of reasons why they wouldn't work because "it isn't done that way". If you live with it for long enough, you learn the rules, build a proper business, and stop having good ideas that appeal to normal people.
One thing that is traditionally held to be very important for a business is a very clear focus. As someone once put it, "If you chase two rabbits, you won't catch either of them". This makes a lot of sense, and I have repeated it to others.
But an inner, rebellious, part of me rejoices when I read an article pointing out that Apple, whose recent share performance is the envy of suits everywhere, breaks many of the cardinal rules.
The article will shortly drop into a premium-rate archive, but you somebody you know mght have a PDF. Thanks to Creative Generalist for the link.
To do is to be - Nietzsche
To be is to do - Sartre
Do be do be do - Sinatra
David M. Levy's Scolling Forward is a wonderful book. Its cover picture and the subtitle, Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, might lead you to expect something concentrating more on DTP, XML and search engines, but in fact this is a rich tapestry which encompasses the poetry of Walt Whitman, the hidden meaning behind cash-till recipts, the life and times of Melvil Dewey and emotional responses to the San Francisco earthquake.
The author describes it as "a love letter to documents", and it, too is worthy of affection. Recommended.
John (not doing so) in his Observer column about the record industry.
In the end, of course, rationality will prevail, because the record industry will run out of money to pay for lawyers long before kids get bored with file-sharing.More on this subject, too, in the latest TWiT podcast, which has Larry Lessig as a guest.
See this one, for example - note the area highlighted in red - or this one.
Some traditional newspapers have a large front-page photo and a large front-page headline, often not from the same story, and I'm often bemused by the juxtaposition. I guess such things will get much more common as we get more and more electronic syndication.
Some bloopers, on the other hand, just result from an over-enthusiastic spell-checker, one suspects.