Warning: this is going to be one of the more geeky/uninteresting posts in the history of this blog (and that’s saying something). I am going to criticize the user interface of Twitter. So just prepare yourself for that (or click “next” in Google Reader).Here’s the problem:I follow a fair number of people on Twitter. Not [...]

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Lately, a bunch of my RSS feeds have been silent all day (or sometimes longer than a day), then popping up with dozens of new items all at once. Usually it’s a bunch of posts I haven’t seen yet, but occasionally it’s a bunch of old ones. What I want to know is whether this [...]

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After I take the bar, maybe I’ll have time for posts based on something other than my site visitor logs (or cut-and-pasting from someone else’s blog). Until then…I’ve been thinking about my most popular posts, in terms of hits (most coming from web search sites). The common thread is that Googlers really want to know [...]

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From the NY Times’ Talking Business column*:What is it with Steven P. Jobs and batteries? On Friday, Apple’s new iPhone went on sale (for a mere $199; how does that make you early adopters feel who stood in line last year for the privilege of plunking down three times that amount? Just wondering.) In their [...]

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I’ll be honest; this isn’t really the top 10 anything. Depending on how you count, it’s the top 9, top 15, or top 16 things I want changed about the iPod Touch. But I hear people like top 10 lists, so I thought I’d try to entice you with the post title. With that caveat, [...]

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Dear Television People:

When you air a standard definition (“SD”) program on your lovely high definition (“HD”) channel, please do me a big favor. Do not stretch it out to fit the screen. Just give it to me in SD, and let me decide what to do with it.

The biggest perpetrators of this horrific mistake (big [...]

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This column is hilarious. First, the Washington Post’s business columnist reveals that he’s never bought a smartphone. Then he holds out the WIRELESS PHONE SERVICE INDUSTRY—a highly regulated field dominated by a handful of companies rapidly consolidating into a duopoly—as a bastion of competition in the free market! This is especially funny because the industry [...]

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First of all, I was also wrong about subsidies. The way Apple got the pricing so low on the new iPhones is by joining the rest of the mobile phone-making world and allowing cell phone service providers to tie phone subsidies to new contracts. To get AT&T to do this, Apple had to give up [...]

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