TAKING THE “EARN” OUT OF “JOURNALISM”

“The worst part is that any time you lose a unique voice, journalism as a whole suffers.”

Former Wired News editor Jon Rochmis, on the tragic lack of a free, global medium which would allow laid-off reporters to publish their thoughts, News.com, 26 July 2005

A STICKY SITUATION

“So, while the pie is slowly expanding and we can always use more, the bigger driver right now are that the shifts within the pie favor us.”

Oracle executive Chuck Phillips, on making money in enterprise software, News.com, 25 July 2005

VISTA FULL OF DOLLARS

“We each have our own unique view or vista of this digital world. Windows Vista is going to bring more clarity to that.”

Microsoft middle manager Greg Sullivan, regurgitating the rationale for naming his company’s latest version of Windows “Vista,” News.com, 22 July 2005

http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/22/technology/microsoft_vista/

ATOMS ARE OFFICIALLY COOL AGAIN

“Zazzle is a way to take all those unique, individual, and custom expressions of self and realize them in expressions generally of things, be they apparel, or posters, or stamps.”

Venture capitalist John Doerr, on why he and other investors put down $16 million for a piece of a T-shirt printing operation, BusinessWeek Online, 21 July 2005

MY OPERATING SYSTEM IS RUBBER AND YOUR’S GLUE

“The trouble begins when you want to add things to it, add some services and things like that. Because of the brittle nature of the platform, when you do that, other things break.”

Microsoft executive Martin Taylor, getting Linux and Windows mixed up again, News.com, 20 July 2005