Unexplained Twitter failure during WWDC 2009
If you follow @macjournals on Twitter (thank you), you probably noticed that our live coverage of the WWDC 2009 keynote came to an abrupt end at 11:11 AM PDT (2009.06.08 1611 GMT) with this tweet: You...
View ArticleCNBC: willfully ignorant?
MDJ has previously noted that CNBC, the financial news network partnership between NBC Universal and Dow Jones (now owned by News Corp.), has such strong ratings among financial professionals that, for...
View ArticleOn Phil Schiller’s credibility
John Gruber today posts a letter from Phil Schiller, senior vice president at Apple, regarding the company’s recent decision to reject a dictionary app from the App Store because it contained “vulgar”...
View ArticleTUAW’s ‘liveblog’ coverage
Earlier today, the MacJournals Twitter account alerted its followers to live coverage of Apple’s music event from Macworld, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), and Engadget. (We did not provide live...
View ArticleNot much shorter, but…
John Gruber, Daring Fireball Gestures as a Language The consistent touch UI you spent millions to research and develop is so compelling that I have decided your competitors must be allowed to use it...
View ArticleWhy let your story’s facts ruin a provocative headline?
MacNN: FAIL (Excerpted from MacNN RSS feed as captured at the specified date and time.)
View ArticleNew York Times: Left hand, meet right hand
Brian Stetler, today on the New York Times media and advertising blog “Media Decoder”: A new study confirms what some in the technology industry have long sensed: that Apple commands an inordinate...
View ArticleYes, it’s a new site
If you’re seeing a lot of old items marked as new in your RSS reader this morning, it’s because we got around to redirecting the old feed URLs to the new WordPress-powered feed for the new site....
View ArticleDan Lyons showing self-awareness? What self-awareness?
Dan Lyons tries to say something. This is typical snarky Lyons stuff. But it’s so arrogant and patronizing that when I read it was brought up short. Because I realized, this guy isn’t joking. Dan Lyons...
View ArticleThis seems odd
From Macworld’s article on the Fair Labor Association’s preliminary report of working conditions at Apple supplier Foxconn: Foxconn told the FLA it plans to reconcile most of these problems, through a...
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