What We Learned This Week

• Steve Jobs has approved an official biography, written by Walter Isaacson, and I can not wait to read it next year. 

• When Adobe is not fighting with Apple over Flash they actually create really innovative apps for the iPad.

• Hard to believe, Quark is still around. 

What We Learned This Week

• Atari released a greatest hits app with 100 classic games for iOS. Though some of the games may not necessarily translate very well to a touch interface, for a generation, myself included, these games were part of the reason we fell in love with technology. 

• After using the iPad 2 for a while, the original iPad feels heavy and slow. How quickly we forget.

• Merlin Mann is scared, but he loves it.  

What we learned this week

• Data wranglers and printers are the true rulers of the world.

• An email written in text-speak, all caps and with multiple exclamation marks does not communicate or convey what you think it is communicating and does nothing to facilitate a dialogue to address whatever it was that made you write it in the first place. 

• There are no longer any seasons. Instead there is too hot, too cold, too wet, often in deadly combinations.

Le Flaneur: Time Lapse Video of Paris Without the People

Composed completely of photographs. A project by Luke Shepard, a student at The American University of Paris. Location: Paris, France Camera: Nikon D90 Music: 'Intro' by The XX (http://www.thexx.info) Special thanks to Henry Farrow Miller.

Luke Shepard, a student at the American University of Paris, began working on Le Flaneur as part of a project for school, but it quickly took on a life of its own. He used a Nikon D90 DSLR camera to take over 2,000 photos of Paris at night, and then used Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to produce this impressive tour of a world that most of us rarely see – Paris without Parisians. In English, “flaneur” translates roughly as “stroller,” “loafer,”  or perhaps “aimless walker,”  and, in an interview with National Geographic Traveler, Shepard explained that he was  inspired to shoot these images in part by late-night pleasure rides on his bicycle.

via openculture.com

Another great find by Open Culture. This is gorgeous and inspires wanderlust.

What we learned this week

• You should not wait until social media happens to you. 

• "39% of people surveyed said they would feel no impact if their local newspapers shut down. 30% said it would have a minor impact, but only 28% said the impact would be major, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. About three-quarters of respondents to the survey of 2,251 U.S. adults said they wouldn’t be willing to pay anything for online news if their newspapers failed to survive."

• It seems that beyond all the discussions of buzzy “branded journalism,” adding “game layers” to everything and replacing ironic air quotes with ironic air hashtags, the main reason to attend this year's SXSWi was to be able to get a brand new iPad 2 on the day of release at Apple’s SXSW pop-up store with a minimal amount of waiting in line. SXSWi is growing too big, too fast, for its own good.