by John Paczkowski
Posted on July 14, 2008 at 4:34 PM PT
I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself…I don’t email; I’ve never felt the particular need to email. I read emails all the time, but the communications that I have with my friends and staff are oral and done with my cell phone.”
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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.
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Comments
Well, he’s no digital native, for sure. And while I admit it is disappointing that a man so close to running our country can seem that out of touch with the modern world, I also find it surprising that he would not have prepared himself better for the question. Even if he has a staff to gather the news for him, it would be refreshing had he actually taken a few hours in the past decade or so to “go online” to gain some perspective on what the kids are doing these days. Hey, at least he’s got a cell phone.
Posted by Glenn Fannick at July 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pm