Monthly Archives: March 2009

Happy Birthday, ‘Elements of Style’

Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style turned 50 the other day. It and The AP Stylebook have always been indispensible tools in my writing. I always get a kick out of the fact that such an authoritative work of scholarship was co-written by the guy who gave us Charlotte’s Web.

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Obama press conference available on Hulu

One of the things I really like about the whole “Web 2.0″ thing is the availability of information. Hulu is a great example. Not only can you watch TV shows and movies, but they are providing access to information in a way that makes it more appealing to a lot of people — particularly younger [...]

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iPhone 3.0 discussed on MacJury

The latest installment of Chuck Joiner’s MacJury podcast is up. In it, I take part in a great panel discussion with a stellar lineup of “jurors:” Macworld’s Peter Cohen, Tonya Engst of TidBITs and Take Control, John Braun of The Mac Observer, Don McAllister of Screencasts Online and Adobe’s Terry White. It’s a lively hour’s [...]

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What I’m hoping for in the iPhone 3.0 software

It seems that with Flash enabled, Apple would have much less control about what the iPhone could and could not do.

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