by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 11, 2012 | Commentary, Featured
There is a great story this week on This American Life (OK, they’re great every week) called Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory regarding working conditions at the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China. Mike Daisey, the man behind the story, tells a pretty balanced...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 10, 2012 | Commentary, Featured, Macworld, Writing
Great article by Jason Snell at Macworld about the iPhone five years after its initial release. Of his many interesting notes, he makes one point about his initial personal introduction to the iPhone that rings incredibly true for me: It was all in shocking contrast...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 7, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
Justin Williams continues his thoughts on the state of magazine publishing on iOS. He nails it and points, once again, at the best example of how it should be done: Flipboard. By the way, if you haven’t used Justin’s Elements as a text editor on your iOS...
by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 26, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. As great a device and, more importantly, a platform as Apple has made, magazine publishers have done nothing short of fumble the snap. Justin Williams on how the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 13, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
“Now, I should have said that the American people behaved remarkably well in the weeks and months after 9/11: There was very little panic, and much more tolerance than one might have feared. Muslims weren’t lynched, and neither were dissenters, and that was...
by Jeffery Battersby | Sep 11, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
“Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror… The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.” – Paul Krugman I...
