Nokia’s 2007-2008 Under The Magnifier
Ever since I started following the blogs, I craved for original stories, not news passed along from site to site with the first author being forgotten somewhere in the middle. Ever since I started blogging, I tried to “make” and not consume. Don’t get me wrong, there’s no big problem with passing along news, on the contrary we need to do that in order to get the information to more people. But every now and then, I love to read an article, or better, an editorial. No matter what the topic is, an editorial finds a way to lay down some objective details, grabbed here and there, but also reflects the subjective opinion of the writer behind it. A good editorial, fresh out of the oven, is what makes a blogging day better. A really good editorial is a text you don’t stop reading, even if the oven timer is off and the turkey is about to be roasted. A perfect editorial leaves you thinking, analyzing, deducing, and it doesn’t limit itself to one idea, but to many, so many.
Stefan Constantinescu has written the perfect editorial, and for that I applaud him and thank him. He delved into Nokia’s whole 2007 archive, created a timeline of all events and devices Nokia released throughout 2007. He also added his own thoughts regarding these devices and what he thinks should be and will be improved. At the end, he stated his expectations for 2008. If you have 20 free minutes, and even if you don’t, you cannot pass on this post: it’s today’s, and probably this week’s, must-read. So what are you waiting for? Go catch it before it slips!
thanks dude. i’ve never had anyone call my work perfect, coming from you it makes me upset you can’t come to mobile world congress.
I agree with your perspective. I like to think of my attention as an investment, and the processing, analyzing, or condensing of the sources I pay attention to as the value added to my investment of attention, and hence the value my readers can get from my posts.
Would you agree?
i do agree, mr gunn… there’s also the attention we give for entertainment (which some people would say is a lost of time, but not in my opinion, it’s another way of investing, and for other purposes)