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Archived posts for September 2006.

Struise Witte #

★★★½☆
Sep 30th 2006 , ,

How to Kill the iPod

Sep 22nd 2006 , ,

By this point you’ve surely heard of Microsoft’s newest foray in hardware, the Zune media player. The Internet is very excited, it seems, about the prospect of someone finally introducing competition to Apple’s iPod - though it wouldn’t be the first time we hear the term iPod-killer misused. Nonetheless people appear to be paying attention [...]

De Cam Geuze #

★★★★☆
Sep 15th 2006 , , ,

On Web 2.0

Sep 13th 2006

Jean Cocteau, among the many things he is famous for, said the following:
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
I believe his statement relates remarkably to the Web 2.0 phenomenon and the monstrosity it has spawned within the [...]