Hypercrit

Michael Becker writes about journalism, new media and digital culture in general.

Month: December, 2006

iPod Vending Machines?

Michael Calore at Wired.com and the Atlanta Journal Constitution are reporting on a new trend in major airports: multi-purpose vending machines.
The biggest news is, of course, the iPods that travelers in Atlanta can buy at a high-tech vending machine in Concourse A. Zoom, the company that owns the machine, says the machine sold $55,000 worth of […]

Poetic Justice

Remember when Microsoft was sued over its Internet Explorer “monopoly”? Now Apple is facing a similar lawsuit regarding the iPod and iTunes, Apple’s online music/media store. The plaintiff alleges that Apple has unfairly chained the iPod to the iTunes store and not opened the media player to other online stores’ products. The same is true […]

“…as it should be.”

Sorry for the lack of updates, but the holiday season, combined with winter break, has kept me away from the computer.
AOL is running a commercial on television boasting the capabilities of the “new” AOL. We see a woman’s face as if looking through the computer monitor back at her. As a filter between us and her, […]

Vocabularies

How important is the size of your vocabulary? To many, it is the chief indicator of your intelligence and your social standing. Use the word “ain’t” or swear casually and you might be thought of as lower class and uneducated. Fill your conversations with buzz words and dropped names and people may think you a […]

Receiving

I just received my new copy of The Onyx Project interactive DVD movie. I’ll follow with my thoughts in a few days.