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Monday, September 14, 2009

The iPod Is Dead

Farhad Manjoo

One sign that Steve Jobs is back to his old self: He’s already sniping at rivals.

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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Masters of the Wikiverse

Chris Wilson

The council of elders that runs Wikipedia confirmed last week that, sometime soon, the unwashed masses will no longer be able to directly edit the profiles of famous living people.

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Monday, August 31, 2009

How to Beat the Kindle

Farhad Manjoo

You might argue that Sony was visionary.

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Friday, August 14, 2009

To Live, Twitter Must Die

Farhad Manjoo

Twitter went down last week, and the world got very quiet.

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Seeking

Emily Yoffe

Seeking. You can’t stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Let’s Fix Facebook

Farhad Manjoo

Back in March, I asked people to quit whining about Facebook’s redesign.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Case Against the Case Against Google

Farhad Manjoo

Is Google too powerful? The Justice Department’s Christine Varney thinks so.

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Friday, July 24, 2009

Double Stuffed

Josh Levin

There’s a video on YouTube of the world’s greatest basketball player getting humiliated at his own basketball camp.

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Friday, July 10, 2009

Smooth, Segway

Tom Vanderbilt

Whatever happened to the revolution in personal transportation promised by the Segway?

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Monday, July 6, 2009

Hipsters, Tempura Burgers, and Pets Who Want To Kill Themselves

Farhad Manjoo

“Look at this fucking hipster” was a universally recognized gibe before it became a Web site.

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Keeping the Fizz in the Journalism Biz

Jack Shafer

Your average journalist usually begins his career with a pop, like a big bottle of champagne. He effervesces about his profession, intoxicating all who encounter him. The party goes on for years as the young journalist conquers deadlines, corrupt politicians, and hidebound editors.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The Fantastic Firefox

Farhad Manjoo

Lately I’ve been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Shorten This!

Farhad Manjoo

To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com?

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Friday, June 19, 2009

May I Smash Open Your New iPhone, Please?

Farhad Manjoo

Later this week, Kyle Wiens will travel to an undisclosed European country, stand in line for hours to buy Apple’s new iPhone, and then find a comfortable, well-lighted place to take the phone apart.

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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

You Can Live Without Apple’s New iPhone. But it’s getting harder to live without the App Store.

Farhad Manjoo

I didn’t go to Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday expecting a revolutionary new iPhone.

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