by Jeffery Battersby | Nov 6, 2009 | Commentary, Featured, Writing
Motorola’s Droid review: It’s the best phone on Verizon | via Los Angeles Times Some notable paragraphs: After spending plenty of time with the iPhone and MyTouch, we realized just how much we don’t miss physical keyboards. Granted, the Droid’s...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 25, 2009 | Asides, Commentary
There’s an interesting article today by Peggy Orenstein in the NY Times Magazine about the potential hindrances created by an unending hunger/search for knowledge, and how the Internet’s “always at your fingertips” access to the same can...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 21, 2009 | Commentary
Microsoft recently sent CultofMac a DMCA Takedown For Linking To Windows 7 Beta in an article about installing the Windows 7 beta on a MacBook. The only possible CultofMac infringement was a link in the article to the Microsoft Windows 7 beta. But what’s really...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 19, 2009 | Commentary
Why hasn’t Vista sold well? | via Marco.org Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades that computers should be feared and are always a single misstep from breaking. We’ve trained them to expect the working state to be...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 16, 2009 | Commentary, Writing
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life by Alexander Chee | via The Morning News, via ThatWhichMatter This essay by Alexander Chee is chock full of good bits. Too many to pass on here, and yet… a small sampling: “Sometimes you write amazing sentences, she wrote...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 15, 2009 | Commentary
So, here we are again. Blog Action Day 2009 and… I’m afraid to say, we’re repeating ourselves. In 2007, the first year that Blog Action Day made an appearance, the subject matter was “Global Warming.” A worthy subject, that I wrote about...
