January 2012
13 posts
Decadence:
a forgetting of how privilege is gained — that precipitates its loss.
- Alain De Botton
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dreaming in circles, my sleeping eyes achieved nothing.
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“…there is a much smaller market for telling the truth than for shading it.”
– Doc Searls
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“If the desktop-publishing revolution had required every newspaper, magazine, and...”
– Jason Snell
(explaining “why iBooks Author is a big deal for publishers”)
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For those who crave an old-fashioned clackety keyboard: Das Keyboard.
Available keyed for Windows, blank, and soon the Mac.
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“The solution to piracy must be a market solution, not a government intervention,...”
– Tim O’Reilly, publisher
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Just as New York Times public editor Arthur S. Brisbane is concerned whether his newspaper is printing lies or the truth, we here at V.F. are looking for reader input on whether and when Vanity Fair should spell “words” correctly in the stories we publish.
- Should Vanity Fair Be a Spelling Vigilante?
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Out of silence, a squall drives down the valley. With one stroke, the firmament’s fury paints a downpour.
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“This is new territory for mainstream papers, who have always had head count...”
– Clay Shirky
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Byword →
“A simple text editor for Mac … to write Markdown and rich text with as little friction as possible.”
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Elements →
“Dropbox powered text editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.”
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“My blog is one place on the web, the place where I write. It’s one leaf on a...”
– Brent Simmons