Posts

Normally, my day job involves a healthy dose of dread. There are time pressures, a story’s wider impact, and if I’m actually, well,right.But this piece has none of that — because it’s about a dumb meme of people involved withThe French Dispatch. Let’s take a step back.The French Dispatchis the latest work fromfirst year film students’ favoritedirector Wes Anderson. Originally scheduled for release in 2020, the movie premiered at Cannes film festival this week....

How do you get around Apple’s 30% cut on publication subscriptions for iOS? If you’re the UK’sFinancial Times, you abandon your native app and switch instead toa paid-for Web app. Optimised for iOS devices, the new site is being sold on the benefits of the Web over apps – no need to download anything and instant updates when new features are rolled out. It also stores the latest edition of the app for offline reading....

It’s always interesting to see how established media outlets respond to the ever quickening pace of online news. How do you keep that “trusted newspaper of record” status when you’re forced to keep up with speedy blogs and the relentless, ifsometimes inaccurate, Twitterverse? Seemingly in response to this situation,The Financial Timeshas today launched an intriguing new service calledTiltwhich sits somewhere between a blog and a private members’ club. Billed as a “Premium online financial news and analysis service”, it aims to provide “A lively blend of news and analysis” for those with a real need to keep up with highly detailed news from emerging financial markets around the world....

The full Microsoft press release concerning the Mango update for WP7. ViaMicrosoft. LAS VEGAS — April 13, 2011 —On the heels of its recently announced Nokia partnership, and a range of improvements to its Windows Phone platform and developer toolkit, Microsoft rode into Las Vegas for MIX11 this week on a wave of Windows Phone momentum. The company’s corporate vice president of Mobile, Joe Belfiore, took to the keynote stage with a compelling message for developers: Now is the time to create the next-generation apps and games for Windows Phone....

Aliens, robots, utter dystopia, outer space and Tom Cruise; that’s the stuff futuristic films are made of (with the directorial power of James Cameron or Steven Spielberg). In this thought-provoking graphic below, designer Michael Hobson ofTremulant Designlays out the predictions of futuristic films on a timeline. Perhaps unsurprising, movies made before the Internet’s adoption are strikingly far off in their predictions in comparison to movies made after. The movies I think are spot on if not slightly overshooting are: Minority Report, Wall-E, Robocop 3, 12 Monkeys, Vanilla Sky and iRobot....