Small and handsome

« I spent most of this last week at the Connecting ‘07 conference in Nob Hill, San Francisco. It’s the biggest industrial design gathering in the entire world, and one thing really stuck out to me: HP’s really starting to develop some design game, and Apple’s once-market leading Mac designs are really starting to look creaky.

This all points up a major consequence of Apple’s tremendous focus on the iPhone and the iPod family — the entire Mac line-up is looking dull. The iMac has a new look, but the overall form is unchanged from the version introduced in 2004. »

From Cult of Mac.

During our recent trip to the U.S., Ed and I saw some pretty sweet laptops, tiny, light and handsome. Now that I’ve switched to an iMac, I don’t want to buy a Windows machine. But I need a new laptop and I would love something ultra portable. Can’t Apple come up with something like this little guy soon?

Créez votre propre Martine

Oubliez les LOLCats. La tendance Web est aux Martine.

Je suis allée créer ma propre couverture:

Via Laurent, qui a pondu une oeuvre juste pour moi, qu’il s’est empressé de me faire parvenir par courriel. On peut toujours compter sur ses amis. C’est lui d’ailleurs sur le dessin, en culottes courtes, qui m’aide à faire mon premier ménage.

My web was organic and I want it that way again.

We use these tools and promote them to our friends because we can express ourselves and create networks but I always thought networks were the tools to reach friends and colleagues. More and more it seems like the network is just that, the network. You’re not reaching friends, you’re reaching network units. You are not “friending” people you want to know and interact with, you’re “friending” viewers. You are not “a” media in the sense that you are your own means of distributing your thoughts and interests, you are “the” media, a money grabbing, self interested, profiteering, people using media like the ones you claimed you wanted to take down.

Great post from Patrick. I’m not saying more about it because everything is there. Go read it on his blog.

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