September 2009
4 posts
A national spam economy
as imagined by the Onion News Network:
"A problem with the industry"
Via Romenesko, the NYTPicker reports on Times tech reporter David Pogue responding to his critics, who think it’s a conflict of interest for Pogue to write books about tech companies while he’s also reviewing their products. While Romenesko and NYTPicker spotlight Pogue’s rather disingenuous assertion that he is “not a reporter,” the part of his remarks that really...
“[W]hat is being celebrated here is the ideology of no ideology—the ascendancy of...”
– Washington Diarist: Against The Plane | The New Republic
Every technology will flourish!
As a lover of falsely precise charts about not actually quantifiable phenomena, I’m obviously a sucker for the Gartner Hype Cycle, the latest report on which was just released:
I do find it hilarious, though, that Gartner refuses (for obvious commerical reasons) to predict the disappearance of any of the technologies on the chart. Look at the legend: they even create a category of...