Archive for June 2008

The Longest Day of the Year

In Fun on 18 June 2008 with 16 comments

Saturday is the longest day of the year. When Heather told me this today, I thought it was a setup for a joke, like “your momma’s so fat.” We then spent the next 30 minutes making up punchlines.

Saturday is so long, you can see it from space!
Saturday is so long, Sunday had to buy a [...]

links for 2008-06-17

In Links on 17 June 2008 with 1 comment

MagCloud
The project that I’ve been working on with HP Labs has launched. If you can make a PDF, you can publish a magazine!
(tags: magazines publishing)

Al Gore Endorses Obama
FINALLY.
(tags: politics obama)

RexBlog.com: If you’re curious about the future of magazines, HP Lab’s MagCloud may offer a clue
Hey thanks, Rex.
(tags: publishing powazek)

Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing

In Books, Internet, Magazines, Publishing, Technology on 16 June 2008 with 25 comments

Short attention span version: For the last year, I’ve been working with HP Labs on a very cool new project. It’s called MagCloud, and it’s the future of magazine publishing. Go see.
Longer attention span version: If you know me at all, you know I’m obsessed with publishing. My mom tells a story about me, in [...]

Busted!

In Video on 16 June 2008 with 4 comments

We’d been wondering who was eating all the cat food, so Heather set up her camera for a time lapse.

It’s 2008. I can’t believe we haven’t figured this out.

In Copyright, Geek, Internet on 13 June 2008 with Comments Off

If you read this site via RSS, you may notice that now you can only read the first couple lines instead of the whole post. That’s because apparently, amazingly, we still have not figured out how to use RSS and still abide by copyright law on the web. (You can read the rest of this post at powazek.com.)

Why I Love Apple, Reason #24789

In Apple, Customer Service, iPhone on 11 June 2008 with 15 comments

There’s been a lot of talk about Apple lately, and the iPhone, and how much people love them. And usually when this happens, people throw around words like “cult” and “fanboy”. The implication being that Apple is undeserving of the adulation; that it’s somehow random or inexplicable.
But it is indeed explicable. Here’s just one [...]

What We Did Today

In Photos on 7 June 2008 with 4 comments

MOAR!

links for 2008-06-06

In Links on 6 June 2008 with Comments Off

Moodstream™ by Getty Images
This is amazingly cool. I want to buy a projector just to put this on a wall somewhere.
(tags: video)

Bruce Schneier: Are photographers really a threat?
Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Duh!
(tags: photography)

GalleyCat: The Future Is Where You and I Will Spend the Rest of Our Lives
A nice little writeup of my panel [...]

The Quest for Perfect iPhone Earbuds

In Apple, iPhone on 5 June 2008 with 81 comments

Yeah, I love my iPhone. I use it more than any other gadget. So a good pair of earbuds is critical. And you can’t use just any pair because the on-cord clicker/mic makes the device so much better.
I’ve spent way too much money trying different ones, but the perfect pair still eludes me. Here’s [...]

A Tour of Fray Issue 1: Busted!

In Fray, Video on 5 June 2008 with Comments Off

A Tour of Fray Issue 1: Busted! from Derek Powazek on Vimeo.
Yeah, you should subscribe.