As my son enters his junior year as an undergraduate majoring in both journalism and political science, one of his courses covers research. This may seem a trivial issue in a world where the word “Google” is a verb for online research. But it’s not always that simple, and someone who makes a living reporting […]

All right, the dust has settled. Many of you agree with me that Amazon Unboxed is poised to be an abject failure, although you never know about such things. But now that Apple has refreshed the iPod line, added higher-resolution movie downloads, and Steve Jobs has proved to us that he is still healthy enough […]

All right, now that the obligatory WWDC 06 photo is present and accounted for, let’s get into the meat of this week’s newsletter rant. First, and how can I put this gently, without sounding sensationalist? Well, let’s not be gentle at all, let me just put my cards on the table here. You see, when […]

In the days when I reviewed products for major publications, it was normal to suffer a vetting process, where my material and the lab tests results were examined carefully before publication. While usually prepared by separate writers, an error in one part of the review would severely hurt the credibility of the other. For the […]