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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    12/02/09

    In reply to Time's Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is
    Not to toot my own horn, but my brilliant brain came up with this idea about 4 years ago whilst sitting on the crapper in my modest Atlanta apartment. The only thing is, I don't know how to patent things, and I'm sure a patent probably existed at the time anyway.

    My idea was for a color magazine reader with clickable ads for revenue and the ability to download any participating magazine over wifi. I didn't have touchscreen in mind, but obviously we all know it would work brilliantly at this point. In my head it was thin like the Kindle, but I don't think technology would've allowed it at the time. It would've made me millions.

    Hell it doesn't seem like that's stopped anyone yet though. To the blueprints!
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/02/09

    In reply to Time's Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is
    I got a free year's subscription to WIRED; while I could easily read all the articles online, the layout and graphic art accompanying those very same articles in the print version make me want to read the magazine more than the website, where every story is pretty much laid out exactly the same way.

    More websites have also put still photography on the back-burner; sure, you can say "why do still photos when online video is so easy," but there's something to be said for a beautiful photo for many, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here.

    I do think you are right, Jesus, and I do think the dissemination of good writing is better than the dissemination of empty shells that simply look good. But as someone who works in print media (I know, I know, my medium is dying, I'm a dinosaur, etc.), I have to stand up for one point, which is that there is definitely a group of people for whom aesthetics is important, and my fear is that we are approaching a time period when no one will give a damn about things like that anymore.
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    Image of Gregory Waxman Gregory Waxman
    12/02/09

    @DennyCrane: It sounds like to me you have a problem with the presentation of the material. However, there is nothing stopping anyone from working on that aspect of the web as more design folk migrate permanently to the online world.

    As technology barriers decrease I'm sure we'll be seeing more and more done focusing on the aesthetics of articles rather than just the subject matter.
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    Image of ian.nai ian.nai
    12/02/09

    @DennyCrane: I agree! I prefer the actual, physical medium! You can't rip your favorite web page out of a tablet and not be mortified if you lose it. Physical media are just that. Physical. As a physical person I appreciate that.
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    Image of jdale jdale
    12/02/09

    @DennyCrane: Why do still photos when online video is so easy? I'm more concerned about the related trend, "Why write text when online video is so easy?" I would much rather skim through text than suffer through a video of some guy blabbing away on the topic at his own slow pace. I skip most online video, it's just not a good use of my time to watch unless it conveys something that could not be conveyed without the video media.
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    12/02/09

    @jdale: ESPN is a serial offender at that.
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    Image of Poop Cooper Poop Cooper
    12/02/09

    @DennyCrane: I think the web will evolve to accommodate those that appreciate aesthetics. Blogs are beginning to make a push to present information outside the standard Wordpress template.

    A great article on the topic can be found over at Smashing Magazine (though to be honest, I find that this particular author's presentation is a little too messy, undermining the value of his point) and I'd recommend giving the following sites a look-see:

    [dustincurtis.com]
    [jasonsantamaria.com]

    Though the blogs on these sites have consistent elements like their navigation, the presentation for each article varies depending on the content.

    I personally think that this is where Time Magazine should be going. Leave print design to print. Use web design to its fullest abilities and create a true "blogazine" (but don't call it a blogazine, because that sounds stupid)
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/02/09

    In reply to Time's Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is
    Someone may want to suggest to their design department that, perhaps, just maybe, a serif font is not the best way to present your material? Unless you're viewing this on a 300 ppi screen, serif fonts are notoriously more difficult to read on screens than their sans-serif brethren.

    That alone makes the above image look way too old to be "the next new format".
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    Image of mclark2112 mclark2112
    12/02/09

    @OCEntertainment: Kind of like the lame redo of Engadget?
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/02/09

    @mclark2112: Yes! Thank you! I'm glad I not the only one who noticed. What the heck kind of a web developer, for a gadget blog no less, is using a serif font as the default for bulk text?! Seriously?! Seriously...come on.
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    Image of mclark2112 mclark2112
    12/02/09

    @OCEntertainment: It hurts my eyes, and looks terrible on my Hackintosh. I go there much less, and that huge bunch of images at the top just gets in the way and takes forever to load.

    Thank you Giz for knowing how a blog should work!
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/02/09

    In reply to Time's Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is
    Unfortunately, there still is a large percentage of the population (mostly boomers) who have lots of money and don't use the series of tubes known as the "interwebs" to access information traditionally found in magazines.

    But, they still love spending money on stupid shit like SUV's, tom-toms and e-readers. I'm sure they'll snap up this 'tablet' device that will support these crazy 'digital magazines'.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/02/09

    @bornonbord: So if I want to get ahead of the game I should start a business selling tablets to nursing homes?
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    12/02/09

    In reply to Time's Manhattan Project Will Explode Like the Atomic Bomb It Is
    Just something to chew on while we ponder the death of print media. The Economist is enjoying record subscriptions as they have taken the exact opposite approach of most ailing magazines. Acknowledging that they cannot compete with the internet for fast, brief, and nearly endless news updates, they have actually made their articles longer, more researched and in-depth. They have pretty much become the last available source of news for people who think global politics and economics probably cannot be summed up in 3 paragraph article on CNN.com underneath the 5 paragraph article about Tiger Woods' car accident.
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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    12/02/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: National Geographic is still kicking ass as well. It'll be a sad day in the world if they ever go out.
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    Image of Segador Segador
    12/02/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: I'm sorry, my attention span only lasted through half of your comment. What was that about Adam Lambert again?
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    12/02/09

    @Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected:
    I felt the same way about Gourmet Magazine... not that it really stood a chance w/ epicurious and food network these days... but still.
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    Image of Eulatos Eulatos
    12/02/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: Gourmet Magazine. This is actually a magazine type that could highly benefit from being digital.

    Being able to click the pictures above a recipe and watch a video of it being made, all while being coherently put together in a way that doesnt boggle the mind. Web sites are great for taking in a lot of content. But regardless of which page you are on, it pretty much all looks the same. There is no special attention to the look and feel of the article you are reading, just the same ads you saw on the first page, on this page now, with the same header etc. People love attention to detail and eye popping unique design, whether they know it or not. You simply do not get this on a web site in a per article way at all.
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    Image of ninjagin ninjagin
    12/02/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: I am exactly one of those subscribers, even if it is an expensive mag. What's more, ad space is kept to a minimum.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/02/09

    @Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected: Indeed, then no longer will little boys have their first exposure to the female form in their Kindergarten collage project cutting out photos from old National Geographic magazines.

    Instead it will be once they finally figure out how to get around their parent's internet filtering.
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    Image of Hiphopopotamus Hiphopopotamus
    12/02/09

    @Eulatos: Sadly, It didn't survive long enough to make it to digital... I miss you, food porn!
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    Image of FigNinja FigNinja
    12/02/09

    @Hiphopopotamus: Epicurious has a lot of their recipes. I would pay for Epicurious if I had to. I do pay for an online-only subscription to Cooks Illustrated. I would never bother with the print magazine. To me, this is a better organization of the content. I can easily search it, view it on any computer, and have ready access to the archives, copy it to a different format if I like. If Gourmet were digital in the way Time is proposing, I'd have all these individual magazine files to deal with which I may or may not be able to read on any device or format shift to centralize my recipe collection. I'm all for going digital, just not this way.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    The inquisition...what a SHOW!!!
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    Image of phicaluk phicaluk
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    "Goodbye democracy, hello National Socialism"

    Wow. I don't think I've ever seen a professional blogger Godwin himself before.
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    Image of phicaluk phicaluk
    12/02/09

    @phicaluk: Also, you'd think that the Spanish, of all people, would have some sense of perspective about what actually constitutes a Fascist dictatorship
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    Image of FriarNurgle FriarNurgle
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    Viva la resistance.

    Neighborhood/Coworker sharing is working pretty well for us.
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    Image of InsidiousTuna InsidiousTuna
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    If I wanted indignant hyperbole about how eliminating peer-to-peer downloading is a destruction of humanity's most basic freedoms, I'd have gone to Slashdot, not Gizmodo. Seriously, it's a little over-the-top. I understand that Spanish law is kind of shitty, but come on, Jesus.
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    Image of Apollinarius Apollinarius
    12/02/09

    @InsidiousTuna: The basic freedom that is in question here is the right to due process. Being able to shut down someone's website is the equivalent of being able to shut down someone's store without any legal action.

    Imagine this scenario:
    You own an internet cafe. One day you come to work to open up in the morning and it looks like someone broke in. All the equipment is gone. There is a sign on the door that says "for Lease." But you paid your rent regularly. You look a little closer. There is a notice taped on the inside of the door. It says, "This establishment has been closed on the authority of the Ministry of Culture for the suspected complicity in the pirating of music and movies."

    Nope, nothing wrong there. Move along. No basic freedoms being stomped on.

    Right.
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    Could you not invoke Nazism so easily? Its intellectually lazy and a little offensive.
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    Image of Jesus Diaz Jesus Diaz
    12/02/09

    @Mark 2000: I can invoque Mao and his cultural police if you want. It would have the same effect. They are both the same dog with different collar.
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    Image of Mark 2000 Mark 2000
    12/02/09

    @Jesus Diaz: Mao would be extreme and offensive too. You are comparing shutting down sites with the massacre of millions in the name of social improvement. Its not a rational comparison.

    As a nutjob liberal myself, I never compared Bush to a Nazi, because as bad as Bush was, he was nowhere near that level of brutality. And when I was in Europe are argued heavily with people who flippantly labeled him that because I expect Europeans, of all people, to understand what exactly a Nazi is. It ain't George Bush and it ain't an artists representation organization no matter how turd-tastic they may be.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/02/09

    @Mark 2000: Completely spot on. The rhetoric knob needs to get dialed back a bit here.

    Drawing comparisons to Nazis or Communists of anyone who hasn't filled mass graves or crematoriums with the bodies of their innocent victims is something I'd associate with Glenn Beck or Moveon.org, not a rational person.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    How in the world can they possibly justify this? I'm guessing that they can only close sites hosted on servers in Spain, and users located in Spain, right?

    What a load of crap, just for that I'm going to fire up u-torrent; download Flamenco and Todo sombre mi madre and Seed them for MONTHS.
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    12/02/09

    @Bertone77: Nice idea. I think I'm going to be torrenting quite a bit of Heroes del Silencio in the next few days. (That'd be the only Spanish band I actually listen to).
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    Image of N@tedog N@tedog
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    Usually I think you're bit over the top, Jesus, but you could not be more right about this. How could an abhorrent violation of rights like this come to pass? There is no room for this in a country who's government usually touts the freedoms of it's people.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    The Euro area in general has very strong union and trade group lobbies. Well we in America tend to assume their governments are less intrusive than ours after the Patriot Act, their labor groups are exceptionally skilled at arm-twisting the government to get them whatever they want, no matter how damaging it is to individual rights.
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    Image of Gaucho85 Gaucho85
    12/02/09

    In reply to Spanish Government Destroys P2P and Basic Freedoms
    . . . This makes me feel so much better about probably having to go live in Madrid next year for work.
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    Image of yantelope yantelope
    12/02/09

    In reply to Dual-Sided Blu-ray/DVD Discs: What the Hell Took So Long?
    The simple quick reason why they didn't put them both together is because people don't want to spend $20 on DVDs anymore and Blu-ray was supposed to allow studios to sell movies for $20-30 again. If they make it a combo movie to dupe would-be DVD buyers they would either need to keep the price in line with Blu-ray or customers will probably be mad that they can't just buy a DVD without the Blu-ray side. The whole point of selling a movie on Blu-ray (to the studio) is the added profit over DVD.
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