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11 August 2008 Comments Off

Witnesses, Gatekeepers and History

In an issue Washington Internet Daily last month there is (as one co-worker put it) “double-barreled” coverage of the Senate and House Judiciary hearings on the Google-Yahoo partnership (aka GooHoo, a term I will no longer be using).
I covered the Senate hearing in the morning, coincidentally ending across the table from Kara Swisher, which was [...]

1 August 2008 Comments Off

Do we really have to go through this again?

I was born in 1982. I remember my parents buying a VCR. That one broke, and we got another one.

It was a Betamax. Anyone remember those? Sony had this great format for Video Cassettes, but they only manufactured it themselves. Someone else had a larger, lower quality format, but they licensed it to anyone who wanted to build them.

30 March 2006 Comments Off

Before Computers Were Cool

At nearly 30, I tell people that I was playing with computers when computers weren’t cool. Of course, in my short life, that means the late 80s and early 90s. I tell people I remember when Prodigy was the way to get on the internet and having fun with an Apple IIc.
This guy [...]