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New York Times spanks Michael Dell

Nick Douglas · 08/18/06 12:51PM

Dell announced yesterday that not only did its profit drop by 51%, but it's under SEC investigation. Chairman Michael Dell promised to improve, but the New York Times wasted no time in chastising him:

David Pogue amuses himself

Nick Douglas · 08/10/06 11:29AM

Somewhere deep in the New York Times stylebook is the rule that all shopping columnists must be "quirky." David Pogue, master gadget and software reviewer, is the William Safire of the genre, and he's even better on video. In his latest clip, Pogue pulls off the best cheesy joke telling in history — just like your dad did around your high-school friends.

That's so old media

Nick Douglas · 08/03/06 12:09PM

Who commissions an op/ed about Net Neutrality from the inventor of the web from a man who inconveniently shares his name with the inventor of the web and makes him start with a railroad metaphor? The New York Times, which today published a piece by Tim Berners-Lee doing just that.

NYT hiring SF tech reporter — Dan Fost, you could be huge

Nick Douglas · 05/23/06 12:52PM

Hey, Valley journalists! Getting booted from the Wall Street Journal? Dropped from Wired News? A tipster hands in this internal New York Times memo. (How to tell it's really the NYT? The link's broken.)