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The reporting around this iPad magazine subscription issue has been pure crap.

Building on my last post outlining what I think the dynamics surrounding the iPad magazine subscription issue are I give you the below – yet another sloppy piece of reporting, this time from arstechnica.com. I pulled three paragraphs from that post which I feel highlight the complete cluelessness with which many analysts have approached this [...]

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  • Apple, iPad and magazine subscriptions - he’s just not that into you. http://t.co/t4sSRU5
  • Watch this. Starburst Zombie http://devour.com/video/starburst-zombie/
  • "Our daughter isn't a selfish brat; your son just hasn't read Atlas Shrugged" http://bit.ly/d7ST5I
  • When Vintage Matters, Wine Spectator Has an App http://bit.ly/bQc4WO - one small step...
  • Re: http://amplify.com/u/8kek @LTOR - From a technology perspective, Nomad is interesting - it uses new tech called treesaver - @trsvr - tha
  • Coming off a week plus of digital detox - interaction strictly limited to family and the ocean.
  • Something I learned today: it's a fine line between deft and daft.
  • Finally some common sense on Apple, Time, magazines, subscriptions, and the iPad from @adamhodgkin http://j.mp/cpJmKg
  • "download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes, but would pay Time Inc. directly." Maybe this has something to do with it… http://disq.us/imibf
  • @Edgar_Allan_Poe - yeah, I get that. Anyway... I really dig your work - Philosophy of Composition had a huge influence on me.
  • @Edgar_Allan_Poe Have you had a chance to meet @sfreud yet?
  • @Edgar_Allan_Poe Perhaps the phrase "unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art" rings a bell?
  • @Edgar_Allan_Poe If by "now" you mean 1862: http://bit.ly/9ZLCDA - check the Westminster Review definition under "Origin of the Term"
  • The days of "Mad Men" are over; we are in the age of Math Men. http://bit.ly/dwb8cp
  • Man, I love Poe. "Edgar Allan Poe: New York’s first bohemian?" http://bit.ly/dlXYzj
  • @dgrossman - yeah I'm fighting a two front war - summer laziness and complex ideas I can't quite find a way to communicate yet...
  • For me @flipboard asks a frightening question that doesn't seem to have occurred to traditional magazine publishers: Who needs editors?
  • @AlexSchleber - yeah, my kid's cries of "Daddy!" when I get home from work have morphed into "Daddy's iPad!"
  • @AdobeDigitalPub - let me know if you need any beta help - or alpha help.
  • @AdobeDigitalPub - "late summer" - Does that mean pre labor day or are you being literal and using 9/21 as the end date?
  • "If the plan ... is that everything is OK ... you should come back to us in magazine land, we are doomed." http://bit.ly/d31rDY - @BoSacks
  • cows & cows & cows http://youtu.be/FavUpD_IjVY
  • My birthday cheese: Who needs cake when you have Humboldt Fog. @cypressgrovers http://yfrog.com/0uz54sj”
  • My birthday cheese: Who needs cake when you have Humboldt Fog. http://yfrog.com/0uz54sj
  • Just as I post my last tweet iTunes throws out No Quarter by Led Zeppelin as the answer...
  • I wonder what the soundtrack to this scene was: http://hippykitchen.tumblr.com/post/807230417
  • Methane bubbles beneath the ocean floor are not about to erupt from Gulf and destroy all life on Earth. http://bit.ly/byZMbO
  • Dang... http://re-x.me/mP
  • Reading Cognitive Surplus on iBooks rather than Kindle app - pagination, typography choices much better.
  • "N.J. turns to Rosetta Stone over language teachers" http://bit.ly/a1w1Yx
  • RT @Techdirt Rolling Stone's 'Print First' Mindset Shows How They Lost The Community http://bt.io/FUx6
  • @egoldstein - I'm getting too old to stay awake for these west coast trips. Only a playoff game will keep me up until 2am.
  • @hugsformonsters- just found Boxxlet - don't know how I got anything done before it - Go Jersey - http://www.boxxlet.com/
  • @feedforever - blast from the past - great to see FEED back online.
  • Re: http://amplify.com/u/716i @egoldstein The bullpen is always a work in progress. If their middle relief is their weak spot I feel pretty

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Digital magazines were an experience in search of a platform – iPad is that platform.
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June 11, 10
Publishing, iPad and the strategies of self-control.
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May 12, 10
There’s no crying in iPad magazine publishing…
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April 7, 10
Do publishers have the stomach to do what’s really needed?
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March 24, 10
Thought Update: Until the Tea Party comes out in favor…
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March 24, 10
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February 24, 10
Detroit as the next great American artists colony.
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February 17, 10
Why I don’t like Wired’s “iPad” demo.
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February 10, 10
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