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On the one hand, we have actual shipping products from Apple that are critically acclaimed and selling in record numbers (and for record profits); on the other, a $1300 laptop that only runs a web browser and a HUD headset that will supposedly ship at the end of the year from Google. And this somehow shows that Apple is slumping…
Polemiek! John Gruber hekelt op Daring Fireball het kortzinnige artikel van Sam Gustin in Time Magazine over de zogenaamde schuivende populariteitsverhoudingen tussen Apple vs. Google. 

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Posted 3 months ago

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I am incredibly judgemental. This is partly because it’s fun, partly because it’s a way to bond with others and mostly because one of my few faults is not appreciating how difficult it is for others to be as amazing as I am.

These are the first two brilliant lines of Joel Steins (my favourite columnist by far) The Awesome Column this week in Time Magazine on Lance Armstrongs fess up at the ‘Oprah Scolding Network’. Why is American culture so fond of ‘overshaming’ and public apologizing? His last few sentences are spot on as well.

I believe that interview made us feel better about all the bad things we’ve done, because at least we didn’t cheat at cycling. Even better, it allowed us to avoid asking if we would have. I know I would have if I weren’t so afraid of needles. And exercising.

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Posted 11 months ago

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A recent study in the UK showed that more than one-third of all divorce filings contain the word ‘Facebook’. And that was before people invested in the company’s IPO.
Aldus mijn grote held Joel Stein in zijn Time Magazine ‘The Awesome Column’ deze week over hoe Mark Zuckerberg ons idee over relaties heeft veranderd, niet alleen door Facebook maar ook door zijn opvallende relationship agreement met Priscilla Chan. ‘He agreed to take her on a date once a week and spend 100 minutes of alone time each week with her outside the office or his apartment.”

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Posted 11 months ago
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De Time van deze week: geen foto, enkel een rode achtergrond en een mooi lettertype. Zo simpel, zo krachtig. De cover rechts is een klassieker uit 1966. timemagazine: For this week’s cover story by Joe Klein about the loss of his parents, we designed a graphically simple cover. It marked the first time in more than a decade (spanning more than 500 covers), that only typography with no image appeared inside TIME’s iconic red border. The headline ’How to Die‘ on a solid red background echoes the magazine’s iconic ’Is God Dead?‘ cover from April 8, 1966. That cover, which the L.A. Times named one of the 10 magazine covers that ‘shook the world,’ was the first type-only cover in TIME’s history. It used a variation of the Bodoni typeface on a solid black background and was an extreme departure from the small, limited type treatments featured on the cover the previous 34 years. To illustrate this week’s story, however, we stayed closer to our established visual language — the headline was set in Franklin Demi, one of our family of typefaces. While we wouldn’t necessarily call it divine inspiration, several have drawn comparisons to the 1966 cover. And it’s certainly rewarding to know we can continue to uphold TIME’s storied 90-year visual history. -By D.W. Pine and Skye Gurney

De Time van deze week: geen foto, enkel een rode achtergrond en een mooi lettertype. Zo simpel, zo krachtig. De cover rechts is een klassieker uit 1966.

timemagazine:

For this week’s cover story by Joe Klein about the loss of his parents, we designed a graphically simple cover.

It marked the first time in more than a decade (spanning more than 500 covers), that only typography with no image appeared inside TIME’s iconic red border.

The headline ’How to Die‘ on a solid red background echoes the magazine’s iconic ’Is God Dead?‘ cover from April 8, 1966. That cover, which the L.A. Times named one of the 10 magazine covers that ‘shook the world,’ was the first type-only cover in TIME’s history.

It used a variation of the Bodoni typeface on a solid black background and was an extreme departure from the small, limited type treatments featured on the cover the previous 34 years.

To illustrate this week’s story, however, we stayed closer to our established visual language — the headline was set in Franklin Demi, one of our family of typefaces.

While we wouldn’t necessarily call it divine inspiration, several have drawn comparisons to the 1966 cover. And it’s certainly rewarding to know we can continue to uphold TIME’s storied 90-year visual history.

-By D.W. Pine and Skye Gurney

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Posted 11 months ago

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We would rather win the Nobel Peace Price than have an IPO

Aldus Dan Rattray, founder van de social petitiewebsite Change.org, in Time Magazine in de week dat Facebook naar de beurs ging. Toch blijkt hij in het artikel van Bobby Ghosh en Elizabeth Dias wat meer Zuckerberg-trekjes te hebben (gehad) dan veel van zijn bijna 25 miljoen sociaal-activistische sitemembers zullen geloven. Als puber wilde Rattray volgens eigen zeggen niets liever dan zo snel mogelijk naar Wall Street om Master of the Universe te worden. Rattrays huidige doel is:

to make Change.org synonymous with activism in the way Amazon is with books

Veel geld binnenharken is daarvoor een noodzakelijk middel. Change.org is daarom ook geen liefdadigheidsinstelling of nonprofit-organisatie maar een zogenaamde certified B Corporation, een organisatievorm die voordelig is voor bedrijven die tegelijkertijd financiële en sociaal-maatschappelijke winst nastreven. En winst maakt Rattray. Zijn site hengelt per jaar 15 miljoen dollar aan advertentie-inkomsten binnen en verdient aan NGO’s door ze tegen betaling toegang te verschaffen tot de gegevens van de sitemembers. Ik twijfel geen moment aan de oprechtheid van Rattrays quote hierboven, maar het voelt toch alsof de journalisten een vraag zijn vergeten. Hoe dik belegd is de boterham van de altruïst die vroeger Koning Midas wilde worden?

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