August 2009
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Innovating at the speed of death
Detroit has two fascinating media experiments going on at once:
The Ann Arbor News published its final daily paper on Tuesday, June 21. The Newhouse-owned paper is blazing a path that other media are watching closely: a new company is rising out of the ashes from the News shutdown. AnnArbor.com will publish daily to its site and print twice per week. They’ll staff it with “pros” and a network of...
“Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder, wondering, doubting,...”
– Sol Lewitt to Eva Hesse, 1965. Drawn Together (via nevver)
As opportunities proliferate, unintended uses take... →
“Recently Sprint, the telecommunications company, pioneered flat cellular phone pricing—you could make all the cell phone calls you want for a fixed monthly fee. Within days of the pricing, the startled marketing experts at Sprint heard reports that people were using the cell phones as baby monitors. Parents would go into baby’s bedroom with a cell phone, dial the kitchen, and...
On Exceeding One's Limits →
He only went up there to do some camping but he came down with a few lessons learned (and some rather incredible brook trout).
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