Hopefully this doesn't end up sideways on facebook /shrug
The question is, who will lock up content first: cable companies through brute force (acquisition) or Apple through attractive incentives. The content companies will likely have to choose one over the other.
http://www.unthinkable.biz/home/article/813/apple-itunes-tv
Think different.
Besides being a brilliant campaign, it launched Apple's string of success that lasts until today. Wouldn't it be great to learn about the process that gave birth to such a classic campaign? That's exactly what we get in this interview with Ken Segall, the creator of the f"think different" campaign. We learn of Steve Job's request to TBWA\Chiat\Day "to craft a campaign that reminded the world what Apple was about, what the company meant." At the time, Jobs often talked about how successful Apple had been in the past. “What are we going to do to recapture the spirit of that company?” he asked. “We’ve got some great products coming but we need to communicate to the world what the company stands for.” The TBWA\Chiat\Day team quickly came to the conclusion that Apple isn’t like other companies. It doesn’t follow the rules. It thinks different. The slogan, Think Different, was dreamed up by an art director, Craig Tanimoto, Segall says.I think that if you want evidence of the existence of God, but come at it with a closed mind, ready to tear to shreds anything that comes your way, you won't accept anything as being legitimate evidence. They say "seeing is believing" - but I don't necessarily think that's true.
However, in response to a very interesting twitter "conversation" with a very interesting man, I have been prompted to provide my own personal evidence of the existence of God.The first thing I want to say is that I wasn't raised in a Christian family. I wasn't raised with any religious or non-religious beliefs imposed on me. I knew nothing about Christianity, and nothing about atheism. Yet when the subject of religion was brought up in school or later, at university, I laughed. Christianity and people who said they believed in God made me laugh, because the whole idea of the existence of God seemed preposterous to me. I said I was an atheist, but I wasn't. I hadn't ever researched the person of Jesus, or the existence of God, so I wasn't an atheist. I was just naive. It wasn't until I was 19, in my second year of university, that a Christian friend started talking to me about God. I was completely opposed to the idea of the existence of God. She gave me a leaflet that explained who Jesus was, why he came to earth (historically true - there is more historical evidence of Jesus than there is of Julius Caesar!), why he died, and how he came back to life. I had never read about Jesus before. It opened my eyes. But I still outright rejected it. I could not see how there could be any way that God could be real...ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
Es gibt so Gesetzentwürfe, die sind in ihren Auswirkungen so hahnebüchen, dass man sich mit Händen und Füßen und lauter Stimme dagegen wehren muss. Das geplante Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) gehört wohl dazu. Zumindest lassen die durchgesickerten Entwürfe der Regelungen Böses ahnen.
Wenn sich das in dieser Form bestätigt, wird ein großer Sturm über das Netz hereinbrechen. Und über die Politik - in den USA und anderswo.
(via @igorschwarzmann http://twitter.com/igorschwarzmann/statuses/5416027195 )
via designboom.com
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Plenty more photography where that came from, shutterbugs.