Monthly Archives: August 2008

Microblogging

Matt | Published: August 30, 2008
The current king of microblogging is Twitter. Unfortunately for Twitter users, technical issues plague the service. It’s frequently down or overloaded. Every time a world event takes place, everyone puts in their two cents, which leads to the site being unavailable. Sometimes these chaos events take place at seemingly random times. On the outside it would [...]
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Fort Worth Apple Store

Matt | Published: August 24, 2008
Finally… an apple store in Fort Worth. The new Apple store opened at 10 a.m. Saturday in the old Gap location at the Fort Worth retail center on University Drive to a line of more than 200 excited Macfans.
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News Today

Matt | Published: August 24, 2008
Daily deadlines did in the newspaper industry. VALLEYWAG: 5 ways the newspapers botched the Web The pressure of getting to press, the long-practiced art of doom-and-gloom headline writing, the flinchiness of easily spooked editors all made it impossible for ink-stained wretches to look farther into the future than the next edition. I believe there is a little truth [...]
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iPhone 3G

Matt | Published: August 22, 2008
The 3G iPhone looks like a pretty amazing piece of technology. Apple has managed to fix all of the things I didn’t like about the first incarnation. The most amazing thing about the iPhone 3G is how Apple will gain mind share and market share from the millions of people who are likely to get [...]
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Olympics

Matt | Published: August 15, 2008
I’ve been watching the olympics. It is apparent that something about the Chinese women’s team doesn’t add up. Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government’s news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.
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