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a snapshot of the Apple news

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Two pieces this week. I trailed Antonio Perez of Kodak at CES and published this interview in this week’s Newsweek. On the Newsweek site today, my Plain Text column is on Apple, and while we are still holding its hand in the nascent world of digital media.

another way to waste time online

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Before I fled for the holiday, I Plain Texted about Internet video, and in particular a few nuggets of gold on Google Video.

Yahoo Skype’s instant messenger

Monday, December 12th, 2005

In this week’s Plain Text.

the astrotourist

Tuesday, October 18th, 2005

This week I devote my web column, Plain Text, to Greg Olsen’s $20 million trip to the International Space Station. I wrote one of the first stories on Dr. Olsen early last year and he’s since had more than his share of ups and downs, including being booted from the Russian space program for a minor health problem. But he regained his spot and earlier this month, launched on a Soyuz and spent 10 glorious days in space.