Comments on: Teen reported Steve Jobs’ fake heart attack

By: The iPhone Multitouch Patent Myth — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

The iPhone Multitouch Patent Myth — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:51:42 +0000

[...] Teen reported Steve Jobs’ fake heart attack Zune vs. iPhone: Five Phases of Media Coverage The Multitouch Patent. Anyone who has ever glanced over a patent filing knows that one can’t simply patent a word like multitouch. Patent filings require making specific claims that define an invention and describe why it is new and useful in some original way that hasn’t been done before. [...]

By: lowededwookie

lowededwookie — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:27:49 +0000

“You, our readers, are smart enough to know the difference between rumors and facts…”

Clearly they are not because if this was the case then Apple’s stock wouldn’t have dropped like that. Essentially the readers who will take this to heart control how well a company does so news like this has a negative effect. I would be demanding money from the market and the blogger who bought this post to the open but I would actually praise the kid who actually posted the article in the first place because he showed how bad the idea of user generated news can be.

Journalists get paid to report but now it seems they have an out so that they can publish what someone else has written and pass it off as their own news. That’s not journalism that’s plagiarism and last time I heard that’s fraud.

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:01:42 +0000

“Given my conviction as a murderer, along with other considerations like the gun I am holding, you may wish to duck.”

You’ve been warned!

P.S. Thanks for getting Bette Midler stuck in my head.

By: hodari

hodari — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:53:59 +0000

it tells us how much the company is worth

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:59:06 +0000

Is this the same blogger : http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/06/cx_da_0106topnews.html ..?

“The National Association of Securities Dealers has informed the famed former Internet analyst that he could face regulatory charges over his research picks while at Merrill Lynch. The NASD has also said it is now investigating Blodget’s supervisors as part of its probe into conflicts of interest on Wall Street. ”

If you do a web search its around the sixth link…

By: Per Grenerfors

Per Grenerfors — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:19:24 +0000

If I were his boss, I’d fire him. Let’s say this actually happen, how is it possible for him to get a new job in journalism?

By: gwn

gwn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:42:41 +0000

As usual, cogent and precise, entertaining.

Except it’s:
“Some say love, it is a river,
That drowns, the tender reed”

Unless you were paraphrasing to make some obtuse (to me at least) point?

By: tundraboy

tundraboy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:55:53 +0000

Why do we still keep hearing from this Henry Blodget fellow?

By: danieleran

danieleran — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:07:17 +0000

Some say love, It is a river that drowns the tender ring.

By: Gatesbasher

Gatesbasher — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:38:55 +0000

According to the Republicans, it’s not a lie if you repeat it often enough, and of course if you’re in power, YOU determine what’s true or not. Then they make fun of poor saps like you in the “Reality-Based Media” for giving a damn one way or the other.