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The future of journalism? It’s astronomy

January 19, 2010

There’s nothing more that journalists like than the opportunity to talk about themselves, thinly disguised as a treatise on the future of journalism This is probably why the “debate” (which it isn’t – not enough listening) on “citizen journalism” (which it isn’t) keeps rumbling on and on. Martin Belam sums up the latest in the [...]

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Google finds out retailing is harder than it looks

January 11, 2010

It looks like Google is finding out that being a retailer selling hardware is a bit harder than it looks: “Google is being inundated with complaints about its Nexus One phone. The touchscreen smartphone was launched on 5 January and can be bought direct from Google and used on almost any phone network. But confusion [...]

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Fred Wilson’s brave mobile experiment

January 11, 2010

Fred Wilson did something brave: he dictated a blog post using the voice recognition system on his Nexus One, and posted the unedited results. It was, to say the least, less than stellar: “I am dictating this blog post via my google phone. I’m doing its name is a test to see how easy it [...]

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Proof that thinking about the Apple tablet makes you stupid

January 6, 2010

Gregg Keizer draws the short straw with this story: ‘”The tablet will be supported by multiple [mobile] carriers,” said Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech, citing unnamed sources he said were close to the situation. “Verizon and others,” he continued. “Definitely Verizon. I’ve been told that’s a certainty.”‘ Yes. Because the one thing that Apple will [...]

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Idiot post of the day – The Roundup

January 6, 2010

I’ll keep updating this one as and when they come in. And boy, are they coming in. With the honourable exception of David Pogue, everyone seems to have lost all their critical faculties, journalistic skills, and in some cases basic ability to write English sentences which parse. First up, Max Tatton-Brown, in his post entitled [...]

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Idiot post of the day (The Return of TechCrunch edition)

January 6, 2010

OK, I wasn’t going to do this. Even I had got bored. But MG Siegler’s post on how “Apple and Google just tag teamed the US Carriers” is just breathtakingly stupid. MG, I know that you’re desperate to justify your earlier breathless hyping of the Nexus One, but seriously – contradicting yourself in the same [...]

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Idiot post of the day

January 6, 2010

Sadly, because I generally enjoy his writing, it’s from Robert Cringely: “iPhone and Android will be here for the long haul with the question being which of Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile, or Blackberry will die?” Answer: None of them. There are more than 1.25 billion phones sold every year. Even a 1% market share would [...]

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Google’s “business strategy” versus Apple’s actual, real business

January 5, 2010

If you ever wanted to read something which almost perfectly encapsulates the utter lack of business reality endemic in new media, Kim-Mai Cutler’s post on the Nexus One is it. In particular, this sentence: “Overall, incrementalism seems to be working for Google. A couple stats released today bear out evidence of that success.” Success? What [...]

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Tech rumours and wish fulfilment: The Google Phone and the Apple Tablet

January 3, 2010

There’s always been a hype-cycle, particularly with products from Apple, but something I’ve noticed recently is how the hype-cycle has changed into a world of fantasy. The two best examples of this lately are the Google Nexus One and (apparently forthcoming) Apple Tablet. You see a simple pattern: In blog posts and forums the hype [...]

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2009: The year tech blogging died

December 22, 2009

Most years are full of idiocy. But I think I can make a decent case for this year being the worst on record, at least from the perspective of writing about technology. This was the year when tech writing plumbed new depths of stupidity, repetition, and sheer unadulterated circle jerking. It was the year when [...]

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