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July 17th 2010

Best iPhone Conference Response Yet

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“I had a theory about today’s Apple iPhone 4 Press Extravagana. Apple was just too eager to get all the press that cares about Apple stuff into one room at the same time on one day’s notice. They were either going to (1) get Steve Jobs to hypnotize everyone with a reality distortion field “there is no problem” and have them walk out dazed and confused but with vague warm feelings towards Apple. Or (2) they gathered all the press to one place to simply kill them. It was 50/50 in my book. Apple went with no. 1, probably based on a coin flip.”

-Michael Arrington (TechCrunch)

Posted at 11:29am and tagged with: techcrunch, iphone 4, only apple needs a press conference to resolve a product issue,.

August 3rd 2009

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NSFW: Trust me on the sunscreen (and the future of journalism)

Excellent! This is the point I have wanted to make with regard to real journalism.

I am convinced that there needs to be either state funding for journalism or some independent financier needs to make this case to the public. If the Kindle were $150 I’d have a subscription to the NYTimes, Newsweek and The Economist right along side my Atlantic Monthly and Wired.

Seriously, I won’t miss the two page ads and classifieds at all.

Posted at 10:48am and tagged with: journalism, Journalists, kindle, wired, newsweek, nytimes, techcrunch,.

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There’s a horribly pompous misconception amongst bloggers that they are somehow ‘taking on the mainstream media’….after camera phone dude helps us establish that the plane has crashed, who can we trust to tell us why it happened?
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