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4 months ago
in Journalism, or irresponsible rumour-mongering? on Mathew's comments
Question: Is okay to for me to write that I heard a rumour that someone might have seen Michael Arrington smoking crack with the headline: "Rumour: Is Michael Arrington addicted to crack cocaine?" Fill it with speculation along with the quote from a single unnamed source who said his friend told him he saw someone who looked like Arringston hitting a crack pipe as long as I update it with Mike's denial but never change the head?
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mathewi
Okay in what way, Bob? You're free to do that, I suppose -- except for the fact that you'd be alleging criminal behaviour, so that's a legal issue you might want to be careful of. And I don't think many people would read you if you kept that kind of thing up regularly. But I'm certainly not going to stop you.
11 months ago
in SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter’s potential on VentureBeat
So, is this "Yay Twitter!" crap now mandatory after every earthquake? "cause it got old the first three times....
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Carl
Quite.
Proponents of any innovation have a vested interest in telling us how radical it is and how it is going to usurp the existing order....even if it's only for bragging rights or a sense of feeling cool and cutting edge.
I'm sure it was the same for early adopters of print, morse code, radio, telephones....etc etc
Proponents of any innovation have a vested interest in telling us how radical it is and how it is going to usurp the existing order....even if it's only for bragging rights or a sense of feeling cool and cutting edge.
I'm sure it was the same for early adopters of print, morse code, radio, telephones....etc etc
1 year ago
in Google Talk comes to the iPhone, death of the text message approaching? on VentureBeat
You know, I'm finding it really irritating how some minor development is always going to lead to "THE DEATH" of something.
I've got a GTalk client on my Blackberry and apparently I still need to send text messages to some people...MSN has had a WAP portal for years (you know, one that works even on $20 Nokia candybar phones) and people still send text messages...
This changes nothing. Heck, the iPhone would've had GTalk sooner if Apple wasn't locking down third-party apps until now.
I've got a GTalk client on my Blackberry and apparently I still need to send text messages to some people...MSN has had a WAP portal for years (you know, one that works even on $20 Nokia candybar phones) and people still send text messages...
This changes nothing. Heck, the iPhone would've had GTalk sooner if Apple wasn't locking down third-party apps until now.
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MG Siegler
Right, this is a small first step, but I think the iPhone will lead this trend as well. Not even this safari version, but when a native IM app comes out on the iPhone 3G. It's going to be a slow death, but people are waking up to the true ridiculous cost of text messaging and a shift will start happening to something that is free. Again, it will be slow, but in 10 years I'd be shocked if text messaging is around. It will just be messaging and it will be done with the rest of your data.
