Comments on: State of the real union

By: Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:21:00 +0000

Thanks. You just saved me time with your movie reviews. I am glad you had a great vacation!

By: Judy Coode

Judy Coode — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:34:10 +0000

Thank you for this. (God’s Gardeners, here we come.)

By: Dan Zak

Dan Zak — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:01:39 +0000

Okay, this is just a “thank you” for linking to the Rodriguez essay.

“In that case, who will tell us what it means to live as citizens of Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor? The truth is we no longer want to live in Seattle or Denver or Ann Arbor. Our inclination has led us to invent a digital cosmopolitanism that begins and ends with ‘I.’”

Exactly and, like, yikes.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:10:26 +0000

Since the Great Journalism Layoffs of the Aughts, I have had the great pleasure of working from home.
One slow day, I chose to cave. I purchased “Twilight” and headed to Flying Star.
Within an hour and a half, I had at least five new conversations about the book series with people from at least four generations, male and female. I loved it.
The experience was exactly what reading a non-digital book was about. It’s more than the words on the page; written words recede into a void when they do not inspire connectivity.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:00:41 +0000

As a DIYer and a grassroots sorta gal, I find your perspective refreshing on so many fronts.
It’s sad to go to my library and find there are fewer and fewer books and fewer copies of those books.

By: Ben Montgomery

Ben Montgomery — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:37:19 +0000

Watch this stuff cycle all the way back to a newspaper (called iPaper, of course, and touted at an expo for its foldability and big screen).

By: fabdcchick

fabdcchick — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:18:51 +0000

I totally agree! The internet killed my paycheck and I do get a little
queasy every time I see a new gadget. Why do we need this? I mean really?
I could understand if this was a product that we actually need in society.
But in reality we all know this is just another way for Apple to introduce
pretty new products that they know nerds who can’t get laid will stand in
line for days to buy…..

By: Ann Gerhart

Ann Gerhart — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:30:57 +0000

So here I stand in the kitchen, just home from work — a little constitutional law professor smackdown in the middle of the State of the Union address can really push those newspaper deadlines to the edge — and am reading your post about the big device on my little device.

Usually I am right there in high foment myself — GO Jaron! GO Jaron! — but I’m hungry and captivated again by the buratta and pork belly in Venice, even though you told me about it almost as soon as you ate it. Because there’s no app for that sense that hits the tongue, that touch that activates the processors we call tastebuds. That’s what’s “magical,” Mr. Jobs, and I was watching him today and thinking,he knows. He can recite all the stats about millions of downloads and from the stage in Cupertino or wherever, but there’s not a Ponce category with an app to fix his thinness. And there won’t be one next quarter, either. So whadda we really talking about here? Can it keep death at bay? No? Moving on.

By: Frank Ahrens

Frank Ahrens — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:27:59 +0000

Well, I don’t know about that, but I *loved* “El Mariachi!”