Then put this in your pipe and smoke it:
Taking Iraq, the takers broke it,
And thereby “owned”
As Powell said,
The whole thing zoned
In green and red.

How much of blood, how much of treasure
Should be the proper price, or measure
Whereby success
The scheme achieve?
Should more or less
Iraqis grieve?

One nation under God if God´s
A gambler reckless with the odds,
As every region´s
Fakes and frauds
Still pledge allegience
To the iPods.

Put morals on sabbatical,
Supporting fools fanatical,
Americans
Fed crazy schemes
Of brute romance
And hashish dreams.

Here’s how your theory works, though: fitting the media to the medium for the ultra-portable, ultra-small devices that we will always carry (as long as they include a phone) still means giving a first taste in text-only format. If you have to, consider it a widget that is really a gateway to a full site or a multimedia-enhanced page rather than a throwback to the pre-Mosaic dark ages.

So, as I see it, RSS — dressed up in Blidget boxes, as Facebook apps or in plain text — is going to be the way media companies gain new loyalties and traction, because it just works so darn good on devices of choice like the iPhone. Boring, but true.

And, yes, please just get one …

1) Improve the device’s web coverage and access.

2) See answer #1.

3) Ibid #2 & #1.

4) opsit, #’s 3, 2 and 1.

5) Advertising.

I was standing out front of a sold-out concert in Mill Valley, California, Sunday night, first in line, with my ticket.

I was talking to a guy in the RUSH line, who was waiting and hoping to buy a ticket to the event.

Just for giggles, I pulled out my iPhone, logged onto the local Craig’s List, and found a ticket seller who had left only their e-mail contact. I took Mr. Rush’s cell phone number, and e-mailed that to the ticket seller.

A few minutes later, Mr. Rush’s cell rang, and the ticket seller said she’d be right downtown to sell him her extra ticket.

She did, and the guy thanked me profusely, both outside, and during the break when he saw me in the theater.

THAT’s part of what the iPhone does. Interactive community.

Good point about newspapers attempts to recreate the paper medium in electronic format. Pointless. Am I the only person to think that the loading times of .pdf’s are atrocious and not getting any better?

It’s not a phone. It’s a computer.

And the changes this first wave of new ultra-portable networked personal computers are going to bring, not just to the newspaper, music and telelvison industries but also to politics and the whole world economy will be nothing short of revolutionary.

Cheers.

La strada la indica Jeff Jarvis nel suo ultimo articolo scritto per il Guardian e subito ripubblicato sul suo blog, BuzzMachine: These are attempts to mould technology to old media. What we should be doing instead, of course, is moulding media to new t…

That means that the real innovation is the iPhone, not the iPod Touch, which is “only” a laptop smaller than a laptop.
My 2 cents

2. I will buy it again, and again.

3. But needs longer batteries.

4. The screen as to be bigger.

5. The hole thing needs to be thinner.

6. And, for sure, lacks a video camera.

7. There are many other technical issues that need improvements but I am not worry: Apple will provide better and better versions of this terrific multimedia phone.

So, Jeff, buy it!