February 2012
20 posts
Longform @ SXSW →
longform:
Headed to Austin for SX? Longform’s Max Linsky will be moderating a panel on curation. Great lineup: David Carr, Maria Popova (aka Brainpicker), Mia Quagliarello of Flipboard and Noah Brier of Percolate.
Come thru!
John Compton - Leave My Casos in Laos (from To...
Francis Starlite and Loren Kramar - Solo Piano and...
Case Study House #008: Charles Eames (PDF) →
Longform for iPad →
parislemon:
Great new app by the Longform guys. They auto-stock and auto-curate longer form articles from various publications for you to read on your iPad (optionally using Readability to remove the clutter).
I’m a big fan of services like Instapaper and Read It Later, but I recognize that plenty of people don’t want to take the time to go out and find their own content to read later (though...
“Once we were all introduced, Dr. Price told us about the course we were...”
– Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education—By Christopher R. Beha (Harper’s Magazine)
Site Releases an App for 'Serious Readers' -... →
I talked to Brian Stelter yesterday:
The app — entirely self-funded — costs $4.99. “We’ll funnel the money back into development,” Mr. Lammer said. “We have an iPhone version in the works, and we plan to expand the scope of the publications we feature dramatically — ultimately we see Longform as a central hub for serious readers all over the world.”
Apologies in advance for the Longform-heavy stream of posts this week. I’m not doing much thinking about other stuff or sleeping.
