ReadWriteWeb: How Pinterest Uses Your Content Without Violating Copyright Laws.
Macworld: If you use iOS, you need VIPOrbit.
Sounds intriguing, but if you call for a PC version, you need to ask for Android as well.
Macworld: Final Cut Pro X 10.0.3 restores professional features; adds notable new ones.
Sounds like FCP is back ... but will editors stay faithful, when Apple broke faith? I’ll have to put feelers out among my video pro friends to find out.
CINEMETRICS — film data visualization.
Better than your average infographic, certainly.
CodingBetter: Mythical man month - 10 lines [of code] per developer day.
Interesting discussion.
Mark Shuttleworth: Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.
Ubuntu is going to try out voice commands.
RWW: Researchers Use Twitter-Bots To Increase Human-To-Human Interaction By 43%.
Are you tweeting with a person, or a robot? I expect brands will invest heavily in this.
Nieman Lab: Meet Deep Dive, the NY Times’ experimental context engine and story explorer.
Pew Research: Tablet and Ebook sales over the holidays.
Tablet and E-Book users almost double.
Day One: Mac Journal Application for iPhone, iPad and Mac Desktop.
Hmmm. They should purchase, and integrate Momento. It not only is a writing environment, but also catalogs all your weblogging and social media activity, as well.
GigaOm: Hacking solutions to the world’s resource problem.
Wrestling big data in interesting ways.
Macworld: Ebook library borrowing hits record pace.
“… some publishers still won’t provide borrowing licenses to libraries for new ebook titles.” This is a huge problem at smaller libraries. They get access to *one* copy of a new ebook title, whereas they can get a dozen or more print versions. Getting on an ebook waiting list is a joke, oftentimes.
Macworld: Holding out for an ePub hero.
Interesting overview. Never heard of Sigil before.
RWW: Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA.
“What a terrible thing to do to a book; to brand it forever constrained for sale by a single vendor only.” Well, that puts a distinct damper on my excitement over the announcement.
Android Design.
Most of the apps I hit on Android are very nice, but there are a couple of skanky ones. Perhaps this site will help.
The Atlantic: Time for a Royalty System for Aggregators?
“NewsRight has identified the most aggressive “scrapers”—the scores of sites that search the Internet for news in a range of subject areas and characterize themselves as ‘media databases’ or ‘media monitors’ and sell subscriptions to corporations or government agencies without compensating news organizations. The scale of these businesses has apparently reached a size that, over time, could make a difference to the bottom line of the content generators.” Some of these scrape my stuff regularly - I see the stats. They can’t decide on popularity or stickiness themselves, so they look to good old webloggers to do it for them.
Poynter: Washington Post raises eyebrows, questions with ‘composite’ photo on front page
I prefer the one that wasn’t used. Scroll down to see it, in this particular case. HDR folks tend to favor way too much saturation. It’s like being punched in the eyes.
Nieman Journalism Lab: Simplifying publishing could mean a flood of new content.
I’ve discussed the idea of a Hypercard for book publishing, but I doubt we’ll see a program with HC’s sheer Swiss-Army-Knife practicality. As with web design and development, there are forces that want the publishing process to be complex. All the new ebook formats are circling around HTML5 and CSS3. This will bring print software closer to web development IDEs. How simple is HTML5 and CSS3? *cough* Sure, there may be a half-dozen ‘simple’ e-book apps ... but their features will be limited, and the path to more complex authoring will be well-trodden. So, want a *decent* ebook published? Expect to pull out your wallet.
ars technica: Why the video pros are moving away from Apple.
I’m putting my apples into Premiere’s basket (and After Effects’ basket) at the moment.
Hmmm. Am I courting disaster, thinking of applying Mac OS updates on Friday the 13th?
“Superstition ain’t the way”, but I think I’ll wait till the weekend.
OnLive Desktop - Simple PC App Access from Anywhere.
Cute. For iPad only, at present.
Gizmodo: Google Just Made Bing the Best Search Engine.
Hate to admit it, but I’ve been using Bing for over a month now. Major annoyance - how they present videos. Takes two clicks to get into Youtube. Other than that, my experience has been good.
John Nack on Adobe: New upgrade options for CS3 and CS4 customers.
I participated in their survey over this - I hope their subscription pricing for CS6 will be aggressive in a good way.
More Intelligent Life: In search of serendipity.
I’m not worried. As a committed eclecticist, search engine accuracy has never impacted my rovings. A bookstore is dandy, but slow. With the internet, I can follow a thread of interest by starting at politics and end up in pre-dynastic Hittite footwear. More than the tool, it’s the individual. If schools are not fostering curiousity - God help us in the future.
NAPP: The Lightroom 4 Beta is available, and NAPP has the goods on it.
A series of videos explains what is new. Soon as I find a text list of features, I’ll add it to this post.
Later: DP Review has it in words, rather than video.
