“Getting it right is expensive. Getting it first is cheap.”
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, on saving money by having his cut-rate reporters make it up as they go along, New York Times, 7 June 2009
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HOW’S THE FICTION BUSINESS, MIKE?
June 7, 2009OPEN MIKE NIGHTMARE
September 22, 2008“Your phone is your omnipresent microphone to the world, a way to publish pictures, emails, texts, Twitters, and blog entries.”
Google wireless guru Andy Rubin, on how the Android operating system will enable bad cell-phone behavior in every conceivable medium, Official Google Blog, 19 September 2008
AT LAST, FEAR AND GREED MERGE INTO ONE
September 15, 2008“I think there’s a real opportunity now to tap into people’s interest and even anxiety about the economy.”
Jim Ledbetter, editor of The Big Money, on launching his Washington Post-backed finance site in the midst of a Wall Street crisis, The New York Times, 15 September 2008
GOOGLE WANTS TO BE YOUR FRIEND
September 11, 2008“So what’s our straightforward definition of the ideal search engine? Your best friend with instant access to all the world’s facts and a photographic memory of everything you’ve seen and know.”
Google executive Marissa Mayer, on her company’s ultracreepy future, the Official Google Blog, 10 September 2008
“SHUFFLE OFF MORTAL COIL” NOT A FEATURE ON NEW IPODS
September 9, 2008“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
A slide accompanying Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s presentation of new iPod models, News.com, 9 September 2008
