Max Langenbeck recommended die wahrheit: Tiefer Fall eines Rekordwindbeutels from taz.de:

Damit Baumgartner sein ehrgeiziges Ziel erreicht, müssen alle mit anpacken: Filmteams werden seinen fünfstündigen Aufstieg in die Stratos-, Tropo- oder Sonstwasspähre minutiös dokumentieren, Onlinemedien werden den Egotrip per Liveticker begleiten und bunte Magazine im Vorfeld seitenweise den geltungssüchtigen Vollpfosten porträtieren

Max Langenbeck recommended Exclusive: How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make? from paidcontent.org:

When I got my first royalty check from Amazon, I went to my boss at the bar and was like, “Mike, I quit, dude,” and he was like why, and I was like “Look at this check, man,” and he said, “I’d quit too.”

Max Langenbeck recommended Does Apple have a Scott Forstall problem? from tech.fortune.cnn.com:

Forstall has such a fraught relationship with other members of the executive team -- including Jony Ive and Bob Mansfield -- that they avoid meetings with him unless Tim Cook is present.

Max Langenbeck recommended Senioren testen Tablets from spiegel.de:

Vor vier Monaten wurde das Projekt in unserem 'Haus im Viertel' vorgestellt. Die Bewohner hier haben zwar alle eine eigene Wohnung, machen aber vieles zusammen. Einige haben sich dann eben auch gemeldet, für ein Jahr kostenlos ein Tablet zu testen. Es geht darum herauszufinden, wie wir älteren Menschen auf moderne Technik reagieren und mit so einem Gerät klar kommen.

Max Langenbeck recommended How To Find Out If the Web Services You Use Every Day Are Making Money from feeds.gawker.com:

So how do the web services you use every day make money? The aptly named "How Do They Make Money" has some answers.

Max Langenbeck recommended How to Ditch Cash and Pay for Everything Electronically from feeds.gawker.com:

It's 2012, and we're still fussing with paper currency. Why isn't everything electronic? Or at the very least, exclusively utilizing magnetic strips on plastic rectangles? Where are those ID/Passport/money-replacing cards we were promised in the 90s?

Max Langenbeck recommended an article from m.welt.de:

Wo Gott ist, lässt der Teufel nicht lange auf sich warten, weshalb sie sich ein Stück namens "Satan weiche" ausgedacht haben. Unweigerlich fragt man sich: Warum sollte Satan eigentlich auf euch hören?

Max Langenbeck recommended JK Rowling: 'The worst that can happen is that everyone says, That's shockingly bad' from guardian.co.uk:

To write such an ambitious book without ambition was neither a contradiction for Rowling, nor even a choice. "I just needed to write this book. I like it a lot, I'm proud of it, and that counts for me." She did consider publishing under a pseudonym. "But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', th[…]

Max Langenbeck recommended Privates Filesharing in Portugal für rechtmäßig erklärt from heise.de:

das Departamento de Investigação e Ação Penal (DIAP), sieht keine Handhabe, um strafrechtlich gegen Filesharing von Musikstücken und Filmen vorzugehen.

Max Langenbeck recommended The Worst Thing About the iPhone 5 Is Also the Most Brilliant from gizmodo.com:

why would Apple change the iPhone at all? There's a reason Coca-Cola's used the same formula for a hundred years.

Max Langenbeck recommended Das Modelabel "Cheap Monday" - Heiße Jeans im Untergrund from sueddeutsche.de:

Wie erreichte Cheap Monday innerhalb kürzester Zeit den Kultstatus, der mittlerweile die Händler europaweit überzeugt?

Max Langenbeck recommended Why Is All Food Packaging So Very Terrible? from gizmodo.com:

Think about the wonderful changes we've made in food packaging so far. Replacing the old-never-comes-out ketchup bottle with the squeeze bottle? Awesome.

Max Langenbeck recommended How much does an artist make from a single stream of a song on iTunes Match and Spotify? from thenextweb.com:

Crikey did a bit earlier this year on the Australian launch of Spotify and called streaming services a ‘black hole’ for artists.

Max Langenbeck recommended Can Schools Teach Entrepreneurship? from good.is:

who are you? Can you live with your work 24 hours in a day? That directly echoes advice from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. He'd put his tech career above almost everything else in his life, even his own health.

Max Langenbeck recommended Watch a novel being written 'live' from guardian.co.uk:

Fantasy author Silvia Hartmann is opening herself up to the kind of scrutiny most writers would pay to avoid: this morning, she started writing her new novel on Google Docs, and you can see it taking shape word by word as she types.