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I (Heart) BoingBoing...

I know, I know. I keep linking articles from BoingBoing. (And plan to do more...) But I'm constantly amazed at how much cool info they dig up. Found this the other day and thought it was all really cool.
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"Meet our new guest blogger, John Hodgman. Here is a brief introduction:

Before he went on television, John Hodgman was a simple writer, expert, and Former Professional Literary Agent living in New York City. In this capacity, he has served as the Humor Editor for the New York Times Magazine, Occasional Public Radio Personality for This American Life, Advice Columnist for McSweeney’s, and a Freelance Journalist specializing in Food, Non-Wine Alcohol, Battlestar Galactica, and most other subjects. This was enough of a career for any human. But then he wrote a book of COMPLETE WORLD KNOWLEDGE entitled Areas of My Expertise and was asked to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where he continues to provide commentary as the show’s Resident Expert. Now, at 37, he has unexpectedly become a Famous Minor Television Personality, appearing as the 'PC' in a series of television ads for Apple brand computers, and accepting guest roles as 'the person wearing glasses' in a variety of films and TV shows, including Battlestar Galactica, a show he once wrote about as a journalist. From time to time, he is asked to describe his professional life, and in particular, the effect of this dramatic and surprising change of fortune, and typically, he finds he cannot do it.

His new book, More Information Than You Require, just came out today."

(Image: Jan Cobb)
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Source: BoingBoing

What Goes Around...

Anybody remember when Microsoft was sued by the Department of Justice in 1998?

Remember why?

Monopoly.

Essentially, the government didn't dig that Internet Explorer (Product A) was bundled with Microsoft Windows (Product B.) The goverment said it made the market too hard for other web browsers.

So, my question is this:

Why hasn't Steve Jobs been sued? Isn't he making the market "too hard" for other music players, computer media playback systems, movie rental organizations, movie sales and distribution firms?

Either the government was out of its mind the first go around with Gates, or my theory holds fast:

APPLE GETS EVERYTHING.

NEW EXCITING TECH UPDATE!

Already bored with your iPhone? Don't worry...some really smart dude has invented another highly-annonying-time-waster for Steve Jobs' phone of the future.

Apple's Next Problem
Seth Godin, sethgodin.typepad.com / dec. 14, 2007

Walked into Starbucks two days ago and saw five people with laptops. Every single one a white Mac. Five unrelated people out of five, same machine.

When your entire culture is organized about being the other, the outsider, the insurgent, the one that's better than the masses... (like Starbucks, btw), what do you do when you are the masses?

It's a good problem to have, but it's still a problem.




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