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digital print done right | twitter v. google
today i received an email from the Oxford American (the South's finest literary magazine) letting me know that as a subscriber, i was now entitled to free parallel subscription of their brand-new, fancy pants online digital edition. i got the email on my iPhone, so on a whim, i tapped the included link to see what would happen. i figured upon some giant, sprawling mess of Flash that, of course, wouldn't work on the mobile version of Safari. what i got was an incredibly elegant solution to mobile viewing.
i'm no expert by any means, but i do remember when iPhone OS 3.0 hit the airwaves, there was a great hullaballoo about the greatly expanded capabilities built within the Safari browser. something about WebKit and HTML5 and blah blah blah. it sounded great... and stuff. coming face to face with it today was a whole 'nother story. i mean... really. this is perfect: intuitive, scaled correctly, and completely accessible. its truly a testament to the ingenuity of print media doing its best to survive in the digital age.
[in a fit of boredom, i made this little video showcasing the awesomeness. enjoy]
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and in another success story for Twitter...
i've had this problem with this video work i've been doing. photos that have placed into sequences have come out looking like garbage and i've spent about two days trying to figure out the solution. Google has been no help (sorry, guys); its typical results would lead me to product placements and forums that sent me in circles, inevitably back to "BUY OUR AWESOME PRODUCT AND BE A MASTER WHIZ VIDEO EDITOR!!! LOL!1!"
seeing as the Conference is on a very tight budget right now, there was no way i could justify purchasing a plug-in or third party solution. in desperation, i tweeted (yesterday morning) about my problem.
and as if sent from heaven above, a relative newbie to Twitter answered the call. after a couple of back and forth question & answers, i had the perfect solution to my problem.
48 hours on Google versus 15 minutes talking to a fellow Tweeter.
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