I’m fascinated with social software. Apple isn’t. Despite some promising starts, the most I’ve been able to get accomplished in that vein at Apple was iChat (the IM part; I’m really not interested in videoconferencing), Safari RSS and the ‘PubSub’ (which turned out to be ‘RSS and Atom’) framework. There were some very promising prototypes of sexier things, but I really can’t talk about those, other than to say that they were canceled.”
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
