Linked List: March 21, 2012

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Daisey’s Upcoming Venues All Defend Him ★

Disgraceful.

Daisey, Daisey, Give Me Your Answer, Do ★

This week’s episode of The Talk Show:

John Gruber and Dan Benjamin discuss how dinosaurs publish digital magazines, the speed and signal of LTE on the new iPad, and the Mike Daisey fiasco.

I really enjoyed our discussion on the Daisey fiasco — a good follow-up to my piece here on DF yesterday.

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Crummy Non-Retina iPad Magazines ★

It’s always been a bad idea for iPad magazine apps to deliver “pages” as static 1024 × 768 images, but now, with the retina display iPad (3), it’s even worse. They look terrible.

Hipstamatic, Instagram to Unveil Photo-Sharing Partnership ★

Austin Carr, Fast Company:

Later today, Hipstamatic is set to unveil a partnership with Instagram that allows photos taken on the camera app, which enables users to snap professional-looking pictures with stylized films and vintage-era lenses, to be ported directly into Instagram’s network with just one click. It represents the first time Instagram has opened up this platform API to third parties, and marks a move toward letting photos freely flow into Instagram’s network from outside sources.

Cool news.

Shocking Wall Street Journal Exposé: Video Streaming Consumes Data ★

It’s almost amusing watching news sites manufacture bogus problems with the iPad.

Apple’s Dividend and Share Re-Purchase Plan: The Impact on Cash Growth ★

Horace Dediu crunches the numbers and comes to the same conclusion I did after Apple announced its dividend and stock buy-back initiatives: their cash hoard should still grow.

Hitchcock’s Definition of Happiness ★

Sounds good.