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David echoes my reaction to seeing a

David echoes my reaction to seeing a Zune in person for the first time this weekend: “I just saw a Zune, and guess what? Its a piece of shit.” I usually give people a hard time for making snap judgments about technology that takes time to get to know (comments like “this interface sucks” after 20 seconds of use make my eyes go rolling), but the Zune…it’s like the story of the Getty’s Greek kouros that Gladwell tells in Blink: one look and you know it’s wrong. Andre has been trying a Zune out for the last couple of weeks and doesn’t mind it even though he’s giving up on it.


Andre Torrez: “Webloggers of 1999 don’t equal bloggers

Andre Torrez: “Webloggers of 1999 don’t equal bloggers in 2005”. Agreed, but I also think the webloggers of 1999 are different too…the game has changed but so have the people.