Compassionate to Conservatives

July 4, 2007

Paul Begala turns the first carefully calculated, focus-grouped and calibrated lie of the Bush Presidency – that he was a “compassionate conservative” – and turns it on its head in this ode to one ‘tough’ President.

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Ethan on the iPhone

July 4, 2007

Ethan Kaplan, one of my favourite panelists from this year’s mesh, is blogging the heck out of the iPhone, including at a new site, iPhoneHints. His latest post makes an observation about some of the iPhone chatter that’s been getting on my nerves, too: “I’m putting all my iPhone commentary on hints. This is in […]

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“He will most likely never again be able to practice law”

July 3, 2007

Republican reaction to the Libby commutation has generally focussed, as the President did in announcing it, on the severity of the other aspects of the sentence – being a convicted felon (which apparently means disbarment), and the $250,000 fine. As to the latter, Friends of the President will presumably fundraise that nut in a few […]

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Ottawa’s Full Cycle Bike Shop is one Sexy Beast

July 2, 2007

If you travel with a bike, as I have this past week, you know the frustration of finding yourself in a strange place in need of repair. Not that Ottawa is strange, but the ways of these people are strange to me, and so when I found myself without tools and with a broken shifter […]

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Web 2.0, Briefly

July 2, 2007

Web 2.0, briefly.

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Babies Not as Innocent as They Pretend; Bishops Even Less So

July 2, 2007

The Telegraph reminds us that we begin deceiving others early in life, and that some of us have an unhealthy appetite for fraud well into our senior years.

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Universal Not Renewing iTunes Contract?

July 1, 2007

Drudge is reporting (without sources) that Universal has given Apple notice of termination: “Universal Music Group, the world’s biggest music corporation, notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract to sell music through iTunes… Developing…” Update: The NYT describes the current contract as “annual” and says Universal wants instead to sell music to […]

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BCE Buyout: Meet the New Boss Same as the Old Boss

July 1, 2007

From the CBC: “For consumers, the privatization of BCE likely won’t have much impact because the company will still be run by the same management team led by Sabia.” An intriguing “strategy” – spend billions of dollars on an asset, and give it to the one group of people on the planet who’ve definitively proved […]

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Slate on the iPhone

June 30, 2007

Just in case you were wondering, yes, it’s true, Jack Shafer of Slate decided early that there was a self-branding opportunity in being the skeptic’s skeptic on the iPhone, and he’s working it, baby. And now, tearing a page from the “Ironic Observer of the Media Fetish for Paris Hilton” playbook, he’s going after media […]

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Why Was the iPhone Launch So Successful?

June 30, 2007

Paul has an op-ed in the WSJ today that explains why: people hate their celphones and hate their carriers. He’s right, of course. It’s a point I’ve made here repeatedly about mono/oligopo-lists, a problem more pressing here in Canada than the US: if you treat your customers like crap, they will never forget, and a […]

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Dvorak is Going to be *So* P*ssed

June 30, 2007

First impressions on the iPhone from Scoble: “Apple has changed the way we all will look at mobile phones forever. … When people say it lives up to the hype they are right. Amazing device.” My guess is Dvorak is sitting at home, in the dark, rolling a couple of ball bearings around in this […]

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Say Hello to my Little iPhone

June 30, 2007

I think this may be the first unboxing. Update: And this, the first teardown. Updater: And Ian Brown’s account of Day One is a gem. Updatest: And Xeni Jardin has the uber-post. Gist: “It lives up to the hype. All the rules just changed.”

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