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...rules. This will likely be greeted with relief in the U.S., where Scrabble is not just popular as a board game but also as an electronic game on Facebook and mobile phones. (It's the ninth top-grossing app on the iPhone and fifth on the newly introduced iPad.) (See 12 early must-have iPad games...
...iPad, magazines - in their electronic manifestation - get to be real magazines again, incarnated without paper. The iPad makes the electronic magazine something you get your hands on, something you can play with. Look at the fantabulous app from Popular Science in which each story is a wonderland that you can scroll and push and pull, moving overlay and text and stories around like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes you can't tell advertisement from original content - and I mean this in a good way. Nothing really intrudes on the experience. If you don't like what you see, swipe it away...
...took the iPad to dinner with journalist friends that first evening. Everyone expressed interest, but we kept the machine to the side while we gossiped about other things. We did call upon it to answer trivia: What kind of movie career did Farrah Fawcett have? Was it insignificant enough to justify her exclusion from the Oscars' annual montage of farewells last month? (Answer: She made Cannonball Run but was quite good in The Apostle. Otherwise, she was a TV star.) It was easier to look the information up on the iPad rather than switch on a computer or fumble through...
...will the iPad save journalism? No. Journalism is something that should go on fighting for its existence constantly, proving it is worth consuming because it is useful. Its existence will be independent of its medium of delivery. The iPad is just another way for news outlets to try to figure out a way to survive. That brings us to a more pertinent question: Will the iPad save the magazine industry? Not entirely. But it will help because it brings an excitement back to the field - and an undiscovered realm of possibilities in which to play. A lot still needs...
...this is not a story of instant gratification. Even on a more mundane level, you don't get instant gratification with the iPad. By the end of that night, I decided to rent a couple of movies. But you can't just do so and watch in an instant. Forty-five minutes after ordering the director's cut of Donnie Darko, I gave up and went to sleep, letting that movie and Dune (yes, I'm a geek) download throughout the night. But you know what? After the dark night passed, joy came in the morning. Me and my iPad...