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“It means that book publishers will have to earn their bound-book sales, though at the same time they will be able to mass-market digital pulps.”

When everybody calms down that this thing doesn’t have a camera, they’ll realize, like AKMA, that the iPad isn’t about replicating the iPhone, only bigger.

Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry. The iPad isn’t a transformation of the iPhone, it’s a transformation of how we will consume (and later produce) media. It will start slow, much in the same way the iPod did back in the day. Ten years out, we’ll be transformed.

Most see this now as a “book or device” thing. The secret sauce is in the delivery. The transformation of the print industry into a mass market of digital pulps, as AKMA puts it.

It will also get it’s camera.

[Source: AKMA]

“In the work of open networks, you have to have compassion, communicate, create value, be decisive, be creative, be different to become and stay relevant. There is a new kind of authority that you get by developing your own network and your brand, but it’s a very different kind of authority we have to navigate in than in more traditional hierarchical and closed networks that rely mostly on age, race, sex, creed, social context and financial power.”

Another quote from Seth Godin’s interview of Joi Ito.

[Source: Joi Ito]

“To have all of your sensors on in full blast, you have to spend a lot more time listening and playing and a lot less time forecasting and blabbing, in my opinion. If you do this, you can often find the butterfly before the hurricane comes. Somehow, you intuitively feel that ‘this is the butterfly.’”

Seth Godin interview with Joi Ito.

[Source: Joi Ito ]

[Via Awkward Family Photos]

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I’m switching between Safari, Firefox, and Chrome almost daily at this point. Why?

1. Safari lacks decent ad blocking capabilities.
2. Firefox is a pig compared to Safari and Chrome.
3. Chrome (on the Mac) is still broken in beta.

I’m hoping that this new Safari AdBlocker helps stop the madness.

I picked this quote from among thousands of stories being told on television about the situation in Haiti.

An older gentlemen was in Haiti with two colleagues and his son-in-law to work with government officials to build basketball courts for children. They were in their hotel as the earthquake collapsed their hotel. This older gentlemen was rescued quickly, suffered only minor injuries. His colleagues and son-in-law are still missing, presumed dead. The emotional interview ended with, “I’ve put their pictures up on Tweeter and Facepage.”

In 2005 Ross Mayfield helped with “Web 1.0 was commerce. Web 2.0 is people.” I often paraphrase this with educational audiences. “Web 1.0 was about connecting people to things. Web 2.0 is about connecting people to people.” Even Tweeter and Facepage.

[Update] Reminder. It’s not the tools.

Silly company. Google already does this to my AT&T number for $0.00 per month. Honey, look, I saved us $120 this year!

Still no word on tethering that was supposed to be available 6 months ago.

“‘It’s like I get these weird urges sometimes, and suddenly I’m tempted to go behind my friends’ backs and attend a megachurch service, or censor books in the school library in some way. Even just the thought of organizing a CD-burning turns me on.’”

Strong.

[Source: The Onion]

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Last Friday I went to check in via Foursquare on my iPhone 3GS here in Madison, WI. The suggested locations were odd. I opened up maps and Google put me in Neenah, WI, 100 miles NE of my current location. I did the normal troubleshooting with no luck.

I returned to the office and asked a friend to check his phone. Same result. I threw my issue out on Twitter, asking other Madison folks to confirm. Sure enough, multiple folks with iPhone 3GS in Madison have suddenly been re-geolocated 100 miles NE.

The solution? Disable 3G and your iPhone will correctly identify your location back in Madison. I understand in absence of a GPS signal the iPhone triangulates your position using AT&T’s network, as scary as that may seem. However,

a) Why does the phone apparently *not* use the GPS receiver when it *does* have a 3G connection?
b) Why is the 3G connection suddenly registering Madison AT&T customers 100 miles NE?
c) Why has it gone 4 days?

“We had no domestic attacks under Bush.”

Rudy Giuliani.

[Source: ABC News]

“After several years of dissatisfaction, we asked the jr. high principal to give our kids the worst teachers. Apparently, there was some confusion over what ‘best’ teachers meant.”

The wisdom, and wit, of Gary Stager.

[Source: @garystager on Twitter]

“We need FDR to remind us that we are discussing the basic right of a community to invest in its future. Communities must not be held hostage by an absentee company that knows it can overcharge and under-invest without consequence.”

Christian Long recently asked me “What is it that you actually do?” Even after a year and a half, it’s hard to explain. Christopher Mitchell writing at Ars Technica reaches back to a quote by FDR.

That where a community—a city or county or a district—is not satisfied with the service rendered or the rates charged by the private utility, it has the undeniable basic right, as one of its functions of Government, one of its functions of home rule, to set up, after a fair referendum to its voters has been had, its own governmentally owned and operated service.

In a sense, that’s what I do. Except it’s really hard to explain to people how the Internet works and the interests at work in this entire telecommunications industry.

[Source: Christopher Mitchell @ Ars Technica]

“‘New media don’t succeed because they’re like the old media, only better: they succeed because they’re worse than the old media at the stuff the old media is good at, and better at the stuff the old media are bad at.’”

Karl Fisch pointed us at this article this morning saying, “Combine that article with Disrupting Class and you have an interested discussion about schools.”

Thought for the Day: What if we, representative of the “old media” education, got good at the stuff that “new media” education stuff was bad at? Let me help. We know that, despite our love for the online connections, there needs to remain some degree of face-to-face interaction. It’s easier for “old media” education to learn “new media” than it is for “new media” education to aggregate our populations face-to-face. (I invite anybody that understands that last thought to make it more clear for everybody in the comments.)

[Source: Cory Doctorow]

“Marry, sir, my heartstrings do you tug;
They urinate upon thy damnèd rug.”

The Big Lebowski, Shakespeare remix.

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“AT&T today announced at its CES 2010 press conference that the company is finally pushing its lineup of Android based devices. The company will launch five new Android devices from Dell, HTC, and Motorola later this year.”

I’m still waiting for the tethering coming to the iPhone. Seriously.

[Source: Neowin]