No, I’m not talking about Obama and McCain, although it could be applied to that. I’m talking about my favorite on-air news person/pundit Rachel Maddow, whose new show “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC beat Larry King (the aforementioned “old guy”) last week for the 9PM slot. She came in second last week to Hannity at Fox News but he got a boost from having the second Sarah Palin interview. We’ll see what the real numbers are at the end of this week. I bet Fox is salty.
I’ve blogged about her here on this and this occasion.
Biggups to the Huffington Post, from whom I swiped.
Categories: TV News · media · politics
Tagged: larry king, msnbc, rachel maddow
Update: Here are some early reviews from the Times Bits Blog.
They released it! (Just the photos and specs.) It looks pretty good, although I’m not the biggest HTC (the manufacturer) fan. It’s on T-Mobile (not a big fan of them either) and available for $179 starting on October 22 here in the States.
Read a bit more about it at the NY Times.
Will it compete wit the iPhone? It will but I’m not sure how well. It’s funny (and irritating) how Google tries to say that it’s a some kind of more politically left alternative to the iPhone since Android (the operating system on the phone which it made) encourages third party application makers to get it on it without approval from them. Apple’s iPhone also has third party apps but the process to get “approved” by Apple is something crazy according to the buzz on the Interweb. But let’s get it clear: it’s made by a CORPORATION, not some kid in a garage who wants to “do no evil” as Google describes itself.
What this all really kind of emphasizes is the fact that PC-web (the Internet accessed from personal computers) is a thing of the past. The new market is mobile-web (the Internet accessed from personal devices like smartphones and iPods). I guess that’ll be Web 3.0.
We were just getting used to the whole 2.0 thing…
Categories: Business · media · technology
Tagged: G1, Google Android, HTC, mobile-web, pc-web
