You will find an instructive account, from personal experience, of the deficiencies of the New York Times E-Reader at PersonaNonData. The commercial ineptitude of the NYT is startling, no follow-up calls during the promotional free trial, the dithering over Times Select, and the general uncertainty about what a great newspaper should now become. When the story about this new (Microsoft) E-Reader first surfaced, we wondered why no one was mentioning the old Microsoft eReader (has everybody forgotten what … Keep Reading
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AnOther Magazine joins the shop. Or yet another magazine (55th) joins the shop. This is an enormous magazine (400pp in the trial issue and counting); like its brother AnOther Man and its sister Dazed & Confused the magazine is full of wondrous photography, much of it in the ads.
- If you like legs as much as Dolce & Gabana. There are lots more here and here, and here.
- An interview with Mia Farrow. Extraordinary photos.
- Swarm
Some interesting advice from a young fogie, Ben Goldacre, apparently ensconced in one of London’s smarter Gentlemen’s clubs (hat tip to Martin Stabe).
10 bits of advice about what to do and not to do about newspapers and their web sites. Mostly very sound. These two caught my attention:
… Keep Reading(8) Make all of your content work on mobile phones, blackberry browsers, old computers, and PDAs. You have no idea how many people own these. You have no
Microsoft, Google and others, working through the C&CIA (a technology trade group), has mounted a campaign Defend Fair Use for the liberal interpretation of fair use/fair dealing for copyright materials. It is surprising to see Google and Microsoft as allies… but of course they have a fair point. In a clever piece of timing, today, Google’s YouTube strikes a deal through which it will remunerate music copyright holders for the ‘performance’ of their materials on submitted YouTube videos. The artists’ … Keep Reading
Opera joins the Exact Editions shop. The free trial issue has plenty to tempt the keen opera buff:
- A profile of the sensational, and stunning, Anna Netrebko
- Plenty of reviews of CD’s, of DVD’s and Books.
- Why would anyone wish to be reincarnated as Scarpia? Yehuda Shapiro provides some justification for his perverse choice.
