• A milestone on the road to digital magazines | Roger Black
  Quote - The Times now ranks as the most visible mainstream pioneer in defining new digital narrative forms. …The newspaper has indicated the direction away from the static pages of print to something richer, more diverse and still portable.
  (tags: design)
• Season of the Kitsch | New York Times
  A step toward the digital magazine?
  (tags: design)
• Scoble, Feeddit, Valleywag and Mashable account for 25% of the stories I read | QuantWorks
  This is true for me, also, except for the part about the Feeddit, Valleywag and Mashable. (Merry Christmas, Robert.)
  (tags: scoble, scobleizer)
• Introducing the iShhhhh | the Daily Mail
  A new patent reveals that the next iPods and iPhones could automatically calculate how long a person has been listening and at what volume, before gradually reducing the sound level.
  (tags: ipod)

Starting Friday with this post and throughout the day yesterday, the formerly witty website, Fake Steve Jobs, has temporarily got its groove back. The gist of the current comedy-jab is an Apple amnesty program in which the company will pay bloggers to stop writing about the company. Yesterday, Fake Steve posted a series of updates on his fictional exchange with the legal goons from Cupertino encouraging him to, well, enter the program.