by John Paczkowski
Posted on May 23, 2008 at 4:17 AM PT
The reason you do basic research is for survival. You (provide) the agility to change when change is critical. That’s true for society and humanity more broadly, like if something really bad happens–war, famine, Google–you can respond.”
–Rich Rashid, a founding member of Microsoft Research, adds Google to the Seven Plagues of Revelation.
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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.
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