The Money Issue: HodgePodge for Sept. 13

​Today we have a look into the design process of one of the world’s richest companies, which college majors earn the most (and the least), what rich people say in wedding announcements, how to make billions and still be called a failure and how to monetize Instagram.

Behind the music (phone)

I’m a sucker for the “oral history” format, which strings together direct quotes from disparate sources to tell the story of some event or product. I’ve also been called a sucker for Apple products. Fast Company has combined those two into a fascinating look back at Apple’s design process going back to 1992. (Be sure to click through to the other five parts in the series.)

Reaping, sowing, etc.

Thanks to recent changes in the U.S. Census, it’s now possible to study the income differences between different college majors. It’s pretty easy to spot the pattern.

Data to have and to hold

What can we learn about societal changes from the wedding notices in the New York Times? Thanks to a new website from the minds at RapGenius, we can now check out marriage trends among New York’s well-to-do.

A post-MS world

Microsoft is still synonymous with personal computer, but does that matter in a world where we care less and less about clunky old PCs? WaPo takes a look at Microsoft’s fall from dominance.

Introducing Adstagram

When Facebook plunked down a cool billion to buy Instagram, you knew that ads were coming eventually, and it looks like they’re just around the corner.

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