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Entries from August 2008

Togo Here I Come

August 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

[This is neither about Pittsburgh nor about technology, but it's a Friday night so cut me some slack.]
I love the Olympics.  I’m one of those people who normally doesn’t care at all about sports (tough to live in Pittsburgh without caring about sports, I’m learning) but I love the sports that you can see at [...]

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Tags: life

Technical Accuracy: Why the Tech Press Just Can’t Get It (even close to) Right

August 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Technical people complain about tech reporters.  They gloss over details.  They ask dumb questions.  They don’t understand why we are the most important people they’ve ever talked to.
Some of those criticisms are baseless.  Technical reporters have a really hard job. They write about complicated subjects for a really broad audience, so they have to try [...]

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Tags: tech · web