January 2010
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The iPad vs. iFail - Analyzing the iPad
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past week, you heard about Steve Jobs’ announcement of the Apple iPad on Wednesday. However, the response to the device was less rapturous than anticipated, with journalists and tech junkies criticizing the device while it was still being unveiled.
So was the iPad really an iFail? The first question that has to be answered is how we...
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The care and feeding of a new media diet
Having spent most of this week in bed, I feel spectacularly unqualified to write my usual “week in review” post. Instead, I’m going to answer a question I get a lot: how do I keep up with what’s going on in the digital world?
The simple answer is: I spend time in it. But to keep up with news, I’ve gotten into a routine that I follow pretty much daily, aside from when...
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Twenty-ten tidbits
After a (largely unplanned) holiday hiatus, I’m back into the swing of things with my week in review posts. This gives me a good reason to post on a semi-regular basis (I am horrible at anything more frequent when it comes to long-format blog posts, although my microblogging on Twitter is generally pretty robust), and it allows me a chance to consider what has been really important in the...
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Fun with Google Suggest and what it tells us about...
One of my favorite blogs these days is Autocomplete Me, an often hilarious site that catalogues funny and bizarre Google suggest queries.
Some of the suggestions that pop up are really baffling. For example, why are people asking “what do you feed a yeti anyway”? Why would someone search for “my nipples smell like sauerkraut”?
As Clive Thompson notes, many of these...