In accordance with all the hype, earlier today I sat at my desk, anxiously clutching my empty wallet in anticipation of the revealing of the great and powerful Apple tablet.

Feverishly updating a Twitter keyword search (which received no less than 200 new tweets every 5 seconds) and cursing whenever I lost audio from the livestream, I developed a somewhat comical system of refreshing no less than three simultaneous liveblogs of the event while retweeting ridiculous quotes like:

Geek.

Changing the publishing game?

Nevertheless, I was really interested to see how the e-reader capabilities of the iPad stood up to the Kindle and Skiff. What were the implications for the dwindling print publishing industry and how could this type of device help monetize digital content?

Off the top of my head:

• Publication-specific apps similar to the one created for the New York Times. The idea is to combine the best of print and the web by allowing readers to save stories and view integrated video.

• The basic online pay-to-read model being pushed by News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch.

• iBooks. If they follow the iTunes model, you should be able to subscribe to a single publication and/or purchase available articles/stories from multiple publications as you see fit. For instance, I’d like to be able to purchase (really cheaply) the fashion spread from the latest issue of Numero as well as the feature article from last month’s issue of Dynamic Graphics to create my own custom magazine.

I’m not sure it’s going to “save” so-called old media, but portable-izing digital content is certainly a step in the right direction.

Did you watch the presentation? What did you think?

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My apologies, y’all. Since the Maintenance Mode plugin refuses to work properly no matter how many times I un-and re-install it, you are going to be subjected to all of the ugly behind-the-scenes messiness this blog redesign entails. Just FYI, it will probably take a while since I’m working on the next issue of Style Sample magazine now.

To make up for it, here’s some better stuff to read/look at:

The header from Just JR

• I can’t get enough of the gorgeously quirky collages at JustJR. Dude is amazing.

• Problogging: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started over at ProBlogger. This blog is one of my daily (okay, every other day) reads.

• If you’re a font ho like me, you probably have a lot more font options than you really need. Luckily, Six Revisions put together a list of 10 Free Apps for Managing Your Fonts.

• According to The Cut, French Officials are Still Trying to Get the Sheikh to Buy Christian Lacroix. Will somebody with millions of dollars to throw around please step up to the plate?

Alber Elbaz is scurred

• Lanvin’s Alber Elbaz is scared of bloggers. Join the club, man. Join the club.

• Seth Godin questions the reasoning behind doing things “within reason.”

• Chris Brogan tackles the difficult and oft-debated process of Measuring Social Media Marketing.

• FOLIO:’s blog questions AOL’s new online editorial guidelines. Is linked content better than original reporting? (Yes, I see the irony)

Happy reading!

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I’ve been such a bad blogger lately. Between work and writing and tending to my sick kitty and being plain ol’ tired, I just haven’t felt like it. I’m thinking of cutting back to two posts per week instead of my usual three, just to give myself some breathing room.

*Sigh*. Why is life so haaaaard? </unnecessary drama>

On the plus side, I had a small picture in an ad for Lucky Style Spotter in the September issue of Lucky:

My mom immediately went and bought a copy LOL. Thanks, Mom!

And I did a fun Monthly Feature interview at Afroniquely You. Check it out!

In the meantime, I’m think I’ll watch reruns of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. You know, for inspiration: “Who gon’ check me, boo?!”

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Nina over at Femme Rationale tagged me almost a week ago, and I’m finally getting around to taking care of biz’ness:

10 Things I Love
1. God, family, friends, cat, The Boy, etc. They all get lumped together ‘cuz this should be obvious.
2. Sleeping in the sunshine
3. Ice cream. Any time of year, any time of day.
4. Dancing. Everything from baroque ballet to shaking booty at random in the club.
5. Purple
6. My iPod. I refuse to go to the gym without it.
7. The night sky
8. Interesting typefaces
9. Lightning storms
10. Big cities. I love to explore.

10 Things I Loathe
1. Closed minds
2. Driving
3. Anything non-human with more than four legs or less than two
4. Freezing weather. I need to move!
5. Doing my taxes
6. Driving
7. Waking up early. Early = before 9am
8. Dull scissors
9. The “Sweetie, calm down…” routine from The Boy. I know that really means “shut up, you’re being irrational,” so even though I wasn’t mad before, I am now!
10. Did I mention driving?

Random Facts
1. I have a circular birthmark exactly at the center of the base of my neck. I can’t see it in my baby photos, so I don’t know if it was there then or not (!) When I was in middle school, I used to draw a line around my neck with eyeliner so it looked like a choker.
2. I had a Jheri Curl (actually, mine was a California Curl) back in the day. There are photos. You’ll never see them.
3. I’ve always loved my name. Thanks, Mom!
4. I took gymnastics when I was little, and can still do (some) flips & stuff.
5. I used relaxers/chemicals on my hair for years (see #2) and decided to return to my natural texture about 3 years ago. I can’t imagine ever going back. I love my hair!

Now I tag The Wardrobe Mistress, Marcella, and Danz.

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