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Open office hours on Thursday, January 26th
I had a goal of hosting open office hours at least once a month. I didn’t manage it last month — the holidays made things a little too hectic — but I am scheduling them for this month. If you’re in or near New York and want to get thirty minutes with me, please sign…
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I wrote something over at gdgt arguing that RIM needs to abandon BlackBerry 10 and adopt either Android or Windows Phone. Pretty great responses so far.
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Finding a home for a broken OLPC XO-1
I donated my original OLPC XO-1 to the Columbus School for Girls today. I bought one when they were first available via the Give One Get One program back in 2007, but it’d be mainly sitting in a closet since then. It wouldn’t boot when I tried to fire it up the other day,…
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How I use email
About three or four years ago I resolved to get my inbox under control — like most people I was having a tough time keeping up with everything — and after a few weeks I was able to get there. Here’s what I do to stay on top of my inbox (and apologies if these…
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Me on the Engadget Show
I was on the Engadget Show earlier this week talking about the biggest tech stories of the year and our picks for gadget of the year. I went with the Galaxy Nexus and the 13-inch MacBook Air.
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What I want in an online music service
What I really want in an online music service is something that combines the streaming catalog of an RDIO, Spotify, or Rhapsody with the ability to upload whatever isn’t in their catalog to a locker. I’d settle for a service that scanned my collection and then uploaded whatever wasn’t already available in Spotify to Google…
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The books I read this year
One of my goals for 2011 was to read more, and while I fell short of my goal of reading a book every two weeks, I did manage to read more than did in 2010. Here’s what I read this year: American Gods by Neil Gaiman At Home: A Short History of Private Life by…
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Neglected
I’ve obviously been neglecting my blog here. There are a variety of reasons why — I’ve been posting my tech-related writing to gdgt and more general stuff to Google+ and Twitter — but I’m going to try writing here more again.
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Some thoughts on what that TechCrunch intern did and how this is not normal for tech blogging
I’ve been blogging for a long time now — going on nine years now, even if I’m not doing it professionally anymore — and if there’s one thing that bugs me is the contention that blogs can’t live up to, or even exceed, the editorial standards of newspapers and magazines. In fact, I’ve written for…
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Update on Ogilvy/Zync/AmEx
I’d like to think that CES was the most interesting thing to happen to me so far this year, but more than a few people have emailed/IM’d/tweeted asking to find out what happened after I posted that pitch Ogilvy sent on behalf of AmEx’s Zync card, so I figured I’d post an update. It actually…