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IM from Markoff re We The Media review

IM from Markoff re We The Media review 08/04/2004 08:27 PM

"The New York Times is my blog" Markoff just IMed me with this funny comment from Slashdot about Dan Gillmor's We the Media. I would have gotten more defensive if it weren't so funny.

Anyway, keep laughing Markoff. Just you wait and see. ;-)

Yes... I did photoshop out the end of his AIM nickname.

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I think, therefore I Dvorak

I think, therefore I Dvorak 09/04/2004 03:58 PM
While my capacity as a journalist on Spymac.com can certainly be questioned, I am, in real life, an editor at a fairly well-respected daily newspaper in Rhode Island. Since I signed on to this online gig, I’ve done my best to walk the fine line between fact and opinion, while still providing the faithful readers of this site with a fresh thought or a different perspective (or at least something to rile against on Sunday morning). The Internet is a place where everyone can have an opinion, but once one reaches the capacity of paid correspondent, there are certain rules that need to be followed. Granted, they are less strict than print journalism, but — even when writing pure commentary — a certain degree of fact should be printed somewhere therein, lest the piece joins the ranks of the juvenile, all-too-common posts that litter the Web. The Internet is a valuable resource, but all is not to be trusted. That being said, when I surf to CBS MarketWatch, I expect to receive one of two things: an intelligent piece of news, or a well-presented opinion that puts something into an original, thoughtful perspective. What I don’t expect to read is an unadulterated bashing of a product with little regard for any integrity whatsoever. While I’ve never been a fan of John C. Dvorak’s work, his weekly columns rarely present much more than a slightly-skewed take on a hot tech topic. It’s clear that he’s no Mac fan, but I’ve often been able to see his side of things and, while I usually disagree, I can give him him benefit of the doubt. Not this time, though. From Phil Schiller to the iMac, the silhouette ads to Spotlight, everything that came out of the keynote yesterday is summarily slammed by Dvorak, and for no good reason other than a deadline. It seems as though this article was conceived weeks ago, and whatever came out of yesterday’s presentation would have somehow crammed itself into its frame, much like the way he describes the iMac’s design: <I>The architecture is risky. First of all, they jammed the entire computer into the screen, making the idea of changing "monitors" or screens impractical.</I> Yeah, because I’m always switching screens on my Cinema Display. <I>Apple seems to have lost track of time… the design is hardly inspirational. In fact, if you put two headlamps on it and a metal sun visor over its "windshield," it would be reminiscent of a 1954 DeSoto.</I> Let’s be <A HREF=”http://www.desoto.org/modules/ContentExpress/img_repository/1954 desoto.jpg">serious</A>. <I>Observers on the Net are seeing this design as a precursor to an Apple notepad computer. To date, the notepad revolution, as predicted by Bill Gates, has been as successful as Blue Pepsi.</I> Is it really fair to tell someone what they’re thinking and then poke fun at them for thinking it? <I>The machine comes in one old-fashioned color: 1988 platinum white… This unit is so white that when you visit the Apple Web site, you can barely see the computer as it disappears into the background of the site itself.</I> Oh, so that’s why they had to use that blue background… <I>Schiller spent a lot of time bragging about Apple's 59 percent market share in the MP3 player market. Is this something to be proud of? Where does this market head? Almost anything with a small amount of memory can be turned into an MP3 player nowadays; you just need a headphone jack.</I> And he goes on like this, until he ultimately concludes that the iMac will ruin Apple. Granted, we tech writers are entitled to our opinions, and in the battle between Macs and Wintel boxes, the lines are drawn fairly deep. Try as we may, we tech writers can’t hide our true feelings, but we do have an obligation of some sort to at least <I>try</I> to be objective. Well, compared to Mr. Dvorac anyway, I should win a Pulitzer.

Other News: Dvorak

Other News: Dvorak 09/02/2004 10:30 AM
"Pricey and faddish"? That's what John Dvorak calls the new iMac.

even dvorak liked nextfest

even dvorak liked nextfest 05/18/2004 12:05 PM
congrats to the wired team for putting on an event that actually gets people excited

More Crap From Dvorak

More Crap From Dvorak 12/29/2004 03:30 AM
I thought about doing a detailed rebuttal about John Dvorak's latest turd, Grim Macintosh Market Share Forebodes Crisis, but I couldn't get past the second sentence before I realized that a thorough debunking would take more time than I have....

dvorak revels in misanthropy

dvorak revels in misanthropy 04/20/2004 02:00 PM
The World's Best Troll uses his hatred of humans to justify demonizing chat

Dvorak: I'm smoking crack

Dvorak: I'm smoking crack 03/21/2003 01:36 PM
Apple to switch to Intel processors, at least according to John Dvorak in a brief article over at PC Magazine. No mention in the article of the massive amount of effort required to re-write every piece of mac-compatible software for x86 architecture, or the unlikeliness of developers to be willing to do so having just optimized for OSX, but then, this piece seems to be mostly just bold, unsupported predictions.

dvorak dumps on socsoft

dvorak dumps on socsoft 02/16/2004 05:30 PM
his complaints are getting within a few weeks of being timely these days... he must be reading blogs

Dvorak international keyboard layout for
xkb 1.1

Dvorak international keyboard layout for
xkb 1.1 07/09/2004 04:43 PM
A Dvorak international keyboard layout for use with the xkb keyboard mapper.

Newton II in January? Dvorak thinks
so...

Newton II in January? Dvorak thinks
so... 11/10/2003 10:59 PM
In an article on PC Magazine's Web site, John C...

dvorak on history's worst laptops

dvorak on history's worst laptops 08/03/2004 11:01 AM
i remember some of these stinkers

Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18
months

Dvorak: Apple will go Intel in 12-18
months 03/20/2003 09:37 AM
PC Magazine's John Dvorak is predicting that Apple will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months...

Notes and Tips: Dvorak Thoughts

Notes and Tips: Dvorak Thoughts 01/05/2005 02:00 PM
Readers offer a few final thoughts about "shock jock" John and his slimy statistics.

Ten Worst Laptops of All Time According
to Dvorak

Ten Worst Laptops of All Time According
to Dvorak 08/03/2004 02:32 PM

Dvorak gets all bloggy about the '10 Worst Laptops of All Time,' asking for readers to chime in with more information about the products he thinks he might of once seen (if he could only remember the name or model number). And for as fuzzy as his memory is about which product he's actually talking about is, he sure does remember when Salon magazine made fun of him five years ago just fine. Article highlight: Saying that the Number One Worst Laptop "could also easily appear on the ten-best list." Wouldn't that make it, I dunno, more like a Number Five, or maybe Number One Thousand?

Read - Bottom Ten List: Worst of the Laptops [PCMag]

Dvorak: Apple will go Intel within 18
months

Dvorak: Apple will go Intel within 18
months 03/20/2003 08:33 AM

Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak

Understanding and Reading a Blog -- John
C. Dvorak 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
Understanding and Reading a Blog (for Newcomers) .. John Dvorak has your answers .. How to read a weblog

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Dvorak: New Commentary betrays aging
vision

Dvorak: New Commentary betrays aging
vision 09/02/2004 11:16 PM
You can always depend on John C. Dvorak to miss the point. His latest anti-Apple tirade begins with unwarranted attacks on Philip Schiller, moves on to display impatience with the keynote time spent lauding the iPod and finishes up with uninspired criticisms of the new iMac.

"The machine comes in one old-fashioned color: 1988 platinum white," he whines.

"[The design is] hardly jazzy or interesting," he complains.

It all sounds more like the grumbling of that angry old man that used to shoo my friends and I off his lawn when I was younger and not the insightful writings of a technology commentator.

Dvorak: iMac G5 'reminiscent of 1954
DeSoto'

Dvorak: iMac G5 'reminiscent of 1954
DeSoto' 09/02/2004 05:55 PM
After taking several jabs at Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, John C...

Dvorak Claims Disruptive Technologies
Don't Exist

Dvorak Claims Disruptive Technologies
Don't Exist 08/02/2004 04:42 AM
John C. Dvorak seems to exist solely to show just how little he understands about technology and business these days. His latest piece points to a few bad examples of what might be disruptive technologies and then claims there's simply no such thing as a disruptive technology, as described by Clayton Christensen. It appears Dvorak has never actually read Christensen's books, but assumes he knows what they're about after hearing Christensen say the idea of disruptive technologies came to him while watching how DEC failed. Maybe the problem is that, like others before him, Dvorak misreads "disruptive" and assumes there needs to be a "big bang" (he mentions the atom bomb as being disruptive), when the truth is "disruptive technologies" are really "straig ht, boring technologies. In the meantime, I'd suggest that Dvorak take a look at VoIP and camera phones, but it appears he's already trashed camera phones for not being good enough (the first sign of someone who doesn't understand disruptive technologies) and while he seems to like VoIP and admit that it's the "future of telephony," it never occurs to him that it's disruptive.

Dvorak predicts Apple will move to Intel

Dvorak predicts Apple will move to Intel 03/20/2003 03:15 PM
Self-proclaimed Apple "expert" John Dvorak, who loves to predict Apple's death every few months, now predicts that Apple will switch to Intel within 18 months. At least he isn't predicting Apple's death, for a change.

dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates

dvorak rambling about circus horses and
bill gates 01/16/2004 11:26 AM
i like when john sounds like a guy mumbling to himself in the corner. nobody bullshits better.

Dvorak out of ideas, phones-in another
''Macs are doomed'' article

Dvorak out of ideas, phones-in another
''Macs are doomed'' article 12/28/2004 02:46 PM
I really shouldn't post news about Dvorak articles, it just encourages him. But this latest one is so devoid of anything original or insightful that instead of giving evidence to the eminent demise of the Mac platform it adds more credence to the idea that Dvorak's journalistic career is what is actually on the downward spiral. The article has all the usual Dvorakisms: the Mac market is declining no matter what you've heard, Macs are too expensive, all the things we think are helping the platform (Steve Jobs, Mac fans, iPods, and Mac OS X) are actually killing it in by some twisted reasoning. He is simply running out of new ways to point out how Macs are undesirable while still finding the need to strengthen his own persona as a Mac basher.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Dvorak on large hard drives and the
future of the media center PC

Dvorak on large hard drives and the
future of the media center PC 11/19/2003 01:41 AM
Curmudgeonly PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wonders, with hard drive capacities doubling every year, whether all PCs might eventually have to become Media Center PCs just so we'll have something (i.e. recorded TV shows) to fill up their massive hard drives with. He is, of course, not particularly pleased by the prospect of this. Read...

Dvorak foresees a helpless Mac community
in the face of a spyware attack

Dvorak foresees a helpless Mac community
in the face of a spyware attack 12/24/2004 12:31 PM
In a recent online PC Magazine article "Panic Over Spyware" by everyone's favorite curmudgeon, John C. Dvorak, the purposes and implications of spyware are explored. On the final page of the story, Mr. Dvorak writes, "The national media pay little attention to the problem, and many mainstream media tech writers are Mac users, so they don't get it. Who knows what will happen when the Mac community gets hit? They feel immune, and are for now. But when they get hit, there will be few resources to help them, since the antispyware community is busy with all the PC-related problems." I have a hard time disagreeing with the predicted outcome of John C's "what if?" scenario: we probably aren't prepared because we have yet to truly be challenged. But is a spyware attack on the Mac platform even likely? Comment below.

[Links from this story may be found on MacMerc.com. Click the title to delve deeper.]

Assigning 802.11b Channels

Assigning 802.11b Channels 01/10/2004 03:22 PM
Jim Geier: As a design rule, access points within range of each other should be set to channel frequencies with minimal overlap. Otherwise, you'll find that roaming doesn't work well, and performance will degrade because of interference between access points.

How Many TV Channels Will There Be In
The Future?

How Many TV Channels Will There Be In
The Future? 07/03/2004 06:17 PM

7 channels simultaneously

7 channels simultaneously 05/11/2004 01:43 PM
Sony's 1TB digital video recorder with seven TV tuners.

< IMG height=132 alt="Type X" hspace=4 src="http://www.weblogsinc.com/common/images/1769988343365311.JPG?0.83 90255697256438" width=197 align=right vspace=4 border=1>And almost as if to taunt us, one more from Sony today: a massive digital video recorder called the Type X with more than 1 terabyte of storage and not one, not two, and not even three TV tuners, but SEVEN TV tuners for recording up to seven different shows at the same time (we defy you to even find seven simulataneous TV shows worth recording). This one looks like it might not hit stores for a while. And yes, it'll probably only be for Japan.

[unmediated]

OK _ so who told them that we want 7 channels to be recorded - at the same time?

their own media channels

their own media channels 02/15/2004 06:25 PM
says

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Overstock Channels Mao

Overstock Channels Mao 07/23/2004 02:34 PM
The Utah-based closeout e-tailer grew by 120%. Or maybe it was 204%?

New Lockergnome Channels

New Lockergnome Channels 06/01/2004 05:08 PM

Windows Fanatics IT Professionals Web Developers Problem Solvers Tech News Watch RSS & Atom Tips Hot Downloads Exclusive Focus Bargain Hunter DVD Deal Center

New FREE Lockergnome Channels! This message brings all the geeks to the yard - and our site is larger than yours. We've got the DVD Deal Center. Fresh titles will rotate in every day! Next, we have the Problem Solvers bulletin. It's filled with the latest headlines from our very active forums. Then, your wallet will find salvation inside our Bargain Hunter! Finally, in the new line-up, you'll spy the Hot Downloads, which will come to you once a week with the latest software titles. As always, these suckers are completely FREE.

If you haven't already, take another look at our classic channels! You're bound to find something that will enable your technology lifestyle - delivered via the Web, e-mail, or RSS! We're letting you choose the delivery option, enabling you to decide what you want to read (and how you want to consume it) on a regular basis. Enjoy!

Telemarketers, Spammers Looking For New
Channels

Telemarketers, Spammers Looking For New
Channels 11/13/2003 05:16 PM
It's popular these days to talk about putting in place technical and legal barriers to direct marketers and spammers. It sounds nice, but people forget that every time you put up barriers in front of these sorts of people, they seem to figure out new (and potentially more annoying) ways to reach you. So, it's no surprise to see these two articles show up on the same day. First, we find out that telemar keters are exploring other ways to get their message out there, including convincing people to "opt-in" for telemarketing pitches. Meanwhile, the spammers are branching out as well, adding comment spam to blogs, spamming instant messenger users and using mobile phone text messaging spam. No matter what we do, it appears these folks think it's their right to bug the crap out of the rest of us. I'm guessing that it's wishful thinking to hope for universal enlightenment among these folks to realize that annoying people is not the best way to get their message across. I can dream, though.

Conference back channels

Conference back channels 04/09/2004 03:56 PM

Interesting discussion over at Liz Lawley's blog about conference back channels.

Relates to the Continuous Partial Attention discussion.

TiVo Channels Google

TiVo Channels Google 03/31/2005 12:15 AM
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New Lockergnome Channels Have Launched!

New Lockergnome Channels Have Launched! 08/02/2004 10:55 PM

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We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes - and some of you have even asked to be a part of it! Last week, everything was pretty much on hold. Now that I’ve returned from my ocean voyage, I believe I’m ready to officially announce the addition of a few new Lockergnome channels. It’s been fun to get ‘em rolling, introducing and exploring new personalities. You’ll notice that we’ve already added the appropriate links to…

No Channels, But Plenty To Watch

No Channels, But Plenty To Watch 07/02/2004 06:02 PM
For years, the joke has been that we kept getting more television channels, but there was consistently less on TV. It used to be that the idea of having 100 channels was amazing, but now people have a few hundred channels to choose from on many TV systems. However, the latest report from Nielsen says that, for the first time ever, the average number of channels available has dropped. TV execs are freaking out and want a recount. Some are blaming things like TiVos for the mess, but Ernest Miller (at the link above) makes the argument that the concept of "channels" is going away thanks to the internet. People don't want more "channels" -- they want more interactivity and control, and you just don't find that with TV these days.

is set to launch video channels

is set to launch video channels 01/05/2005 02:04 PM
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More channels to order budget PCs

More channels to order budget PCs 05/31/2004 02:12 PM
Bangkok Post May 31 2004 6:52PM GMT

Topix.net Adds New Channels

Topix.net Adds New Channels 01/04/2005 11:29 PM
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FeedDemon Search Channels

FeedDemon Search Channels 01/16/2004 01:04 PM

FeedDemon's "search channels" are the fastest way to find news items and blogs of interest. A search channel is a dynamic feed which uses an online search service to look for items containing specific keywords. Feedster and DayPop searches are built into FeedDemon, and fans of Blogdigger will be happy to hear that Blogdigger support is very easy to add.

Want more? Oskar van Rijswijk provides additional tips on customizing FeedDemon search channels.

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