Apple iPhone 4 is the new Rolex Submariner.

7 June 2010
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Eric Schmidt on the need for skilled news media.

4 June 2010
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Steve Jobs on the need for skilled news media.

2 June 2010
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Brendan O’Kane on stuff in Chinese Wal-Marts.

25 May 2010
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Beijing writer and translator Brendan O’Kane’s reaction to Buzzfeed’s “16 Items They Only Sell at Chinese Wal-Marts.” Above, Item No. 1, crocodiles. “When I first moved to China in 2002, I got to Harbin — the city in the Northeast where I first lived — about two weeks after the first Wal-Mart opened there. I […]

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Burgers and confetti. Social media metrics from a Chinese marketer and an Italian physicist.

24 May 2010
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Darn shoe companies, always selling shoes.

20 May 2010
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Maureen O’Connor wrote recently on Gawker about how to discern fakers who have pictures of themselves walking on water. She is pretty mad at a shoe company named Hi-Tec Sports for producing a YouTube video and hoping people watch it. She lists four ways to tell if a video is trying to sell something. A […]

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‘House MD’ takes 2 steps for film democracy.

18 May 2010
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Minivans stake hip new claim to awesomeness.

16 May 2010
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Andy Ihnatko on the story behind what is probably a new iPhone.

19 April 2010

If you don’t already read technology columnist Andy Ihnatko, you should. Today he wrote a careful dissection of a Gizmodo story on what is probably the next generation of the Apple iPhone. Ihnatko writes a spot-on description of website competition, journalistic motivations, corporate motivations, his own motivations, and the processes behind publishing stories. In addition […]

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On Hummers and the need for stupidity.

17 April 2010
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American comedian/magician Penn Jillette on the demise of the Hummer in today’s Wall Street Journal: “Hummers are stupid and wasteful and if they go away because no one wants to buy one, that’ll be just a little sad. It’s always a little sad to lose some stupid…. Although all over the world we humans have […]

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