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Putting the We Back in Wii

June 8th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Wii

Link: Putting the We Back in Wii
"As of the end of April, Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Wii consoles in the United States, almost double PlayStation 3’s sales of 1.3 million and closing in on Xbox 360’s 5.4 million sales, according to the NPD Group, a market research firm.
What changed? The secretive company is coming [...]

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Bad Hair Days Lead Pair to Web Incubator and Venture Capital

May 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Content, Community, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Bad Hair Days Lead Pair to Web Incubator and Venture Capital
"[NaturallyCurly.com] is a throwback to the late 1990s, in that it follows the “three C’s” of Web site development — community, commerce and content."

It’s true: you’ll recall that on December 31 1999, internet users suddenly decided en masse that community, commerce and content were [...]

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Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Amazon, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

Link: Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com
"Fulfillment by Amazon, in development for the last three years, is one of the oldest efforts in the company’s stable of Web services. Unlike S3 and other recent initiatives, Fulfillment by Amazon involves the movement of physical goods instead of digital information."

I am sure that the Times’ writer is [...]

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The NY Times on this Hot New PC Gaming Trend

April 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology

It is one of those NY Times pieces on technology that, as soon as you read the headline, makes you think "oh, God, they’re taking another stab at it," much in the way a dying bumblebee attempts to extricate itself from a maliciously overturned pint glass on a hot summer day. Each time you read [...]

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David Pogue Needs To Settle Down

September 15th, 2005 · 6 Comments · Apple, Collaboration, Content, Community, That's Pretty Messed Up Right There, The NY Times Valiantly Attempts To Report on Technology, Web/Tech

I loves me my New York Times but two things that they consistently screw up are news of the West and technology reporting. They blow it on timeliness, they blow it on accuracy, and (particularly for news about the West) they often use a condescending style which is maddening.
David Pogue is not the best technology [...]

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