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By Stephen Hackett
Category Archives: Journalism
Newsstand’s Impact»
Jim Dalrymple, in an interview at MacStories about his newly-released The Loop Magazine: Apple’s Newsstand is the first time since 1994 that I’ve felt another shift in the publishing industry was upon us, so I jumped at it. Apple takes care of distribution, payments and the business side of things, leaving the publisher focus on [...]
In Which Henry Blodget Displays He Doesn’t Understand iOS Multitasking»
How much does Henry Blodget make writing this crap? Oh, more money than my site generates? What, a lot more? Excuse me while I go jump in front of a bus. In the mean time, go watch this.
Henry Blodget Reviews a Newspaper»
I think I’m hallucinating. Can someone call an ambulance for me?
Mythperceptions»
The Macalope, on the churning shitstorm the media has created around Apple: People like stories. Even—and sometimes especially—if they’re not true.
Read and Trust: March 2013»
In this month’s Read and Trust magazine, Matt Alexander, Dave Caolo, David Chartier and Federico Viticci discuss mobile computing devices. It’s a great edition.
Investigative Tech Journalism At Its Best»
The subhead to a story written by Austin Carr: Six years and five iPhones later, Fast Company tracks down the recipient of Steve Jobs’s groundbreaking prank call, the first ever made from Apple’s original iPhone to the outside world.
Memphis Daily Paper Increases Rate to ‘Support Non-Profits’»
James Dowd at The Commercial Appeal: Beginning Monday, the price of Monday through Saturday single copy editions of The Commercial Appeal — found in racks and at retailers — increases to $1, but the change will not affect Sunday editions or subscription rates. As part of the increase, a portion of every non-subscription copy sold [...]
The Magazine Gains Sharing and Web Subscriptions»
Marco: I hastily built a basic site while I was waiting for the app to be approved. I only needed it to do two things: send people to the App Store, and show something at the sharing URLs for each article. Since The Magazine had no ads, and people could only subscribe in the app, [...]
More on Tesla and the NYT»
Rebecca Greenfield: Not all of Musk’s data is entirely convincing and the parts that are don’t point to a malicious plot. In the end, it looks like Broder made some compromises to get from the Newark charging station to the Milford one, in both speed and temperature. Broder may not have used Musk’s car the [...]
NYT Writer — Maybe — Caught Lying in Tesla S Review»
Elon Musk: When Tesla first approached The New York Times about doing this story, it was supposed to be focused on future advancements in our Supercharger technology. There was no need to write a story about existing Superchargers on the East Coast, as that had already been done by Consumer Reports with no problems! We [...]
More on Vine and Journalism»
Adi Robertson at The Verge: Some of the best citizen journalism has relied on picking a few moments from long reels of video or snapping reams of pictures in short succession, an approach that doesn’t really work with Vine. Shocking.
February’s Read & Trust Magazine: Shipping It»
Everyone dreams of launching their side project, but few of us manage to reach the finish line. This month, Shawn Blanc, David Sparks, Brett Terpstra, Brett Kelly and Adam King share from their experiences as professional “shippers.”
Surface Pro Reviews Roll In
The hey-I-run-old-ass-apps-too version of the Microsoft Surface here. So, is it any good? Peter Bright at Ars Technica: From the tablet perspective, Surface Pro is not acceptable. It gets too hot for a hand-held device, its battery life is woefully inadequate, and it’s too thick and heavy to be comfortable to hand hold for long [...]
CBS Bans Superbowl Ad Attacking Its BIggest Sponsors»
Will Burns at Forbes: CBS banned SodaStream’s Super Bowl spot because, apparently, it was too much of a direct hit to two of its biggest sponsors, Coke and Pepsi. Please pause and read that sentence again.
