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Funny creative brief references Ari Gold from Entourage

This has to be one of the funniest creative briefs, especially if you’re an Entourage fan (my bolding): Incubator/seed investment funds are popping up left and right and were looking to differentiate ourself through edgier design. Our founder likes to swear. In public. A lot. Think Ari Gold, but for tech companies and without a [...]

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Should journalists be objective or transparent?

Complete objectivity has always been a mystical creature as elusive as the Lochness Monster of Big Foot. Journalists are like any other people with opinions. But the longstanding pursuit has been to avoid the opinion to get in the way of news-gathering and reporting; to approach the story with the idea of an impartial observer, [...]

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Apple’s HTML5 showcase is a farce

It is a bit of a farce that Apple’s HTML5 showcase only grants access to users of Safari. Christopher Blizzard, director of developer relations at Mozilla, puts it best when he explains that HTML5 is foremost about interoperability and that Apple is basically saying: “That’s right. If you’re not on Safari, then Fuck You.” The most [...]

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Bieber On Twitter: He’s Talking To The 2 Million Girls At His Disposal

I find it hard to believe that Justin Bieber himself spends “at least two hours a day on Twitter”. I wonder how many people he has working for him with social media titles? Bieber spends a least two hours a day on Twitter, Braun noted. “He likes doing it. That’s what kids do.” via Bieber [...]

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Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks

John Gruber really dislikes Tynt (via Daring Fireball: Tynt, the Copy/Paste Jerks): It certainly isn’t being appended to help the person copying and pasting the text. The person copying the text knows where it comes from. But you know what? As a reader it saves you an extra copy and paste when sharing over email. Let’s [...]