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During the past few months, hundreds of thousands of software developers and other digerati have been beta-testing the upgrade and broadcasting its assorted charms. As the iPhone has evolved into a full-fledged pocket computer, with more than 50,000 applications, it has become a bit more cumbersome to use. I've got more than 120 apps, for instance, stacked 20 to a screen, that I have to arrange or alphabetize by hand. The upgrade addresses that problem by creating a universal search function that can scour all applications; many users are making this their home screen so they...
...there was any doubt of Cory Doctorow’s place on the digerati A-list, New York magazine ranked his blog, BoingBoing.net, as the number one most linked-to blog on the web. Analog recognizing the triumphs of digital? The times really are a-changin?...
Staying on the cutting edge of the digerati these days means more than owning a slick cell phone or a hi-res digital camera. It means having a zippy cell-phone ring tone as well. Research firm IDC estimates that Americans spent more than $57 million on ring tones in 2003, up from $16 million in 2002. Hip-hop songs like 50 Cent's In Da Club are among the most popular tunes, but there are thousands to choose from. You can even get prepaid cards at Wal-Mart and 7-Eleven stores just for buying ring tones...
...reality, those who ask for the exemption will be the technically-inclined, who will know when the firewall interferes with their online activities. And so, while the digerati will have access to all the Internet has to offer, the rest of us will have access to only what HASCS thinks is important. And, as new applications rapidly emerge--applications that will take advantage of the Internet in ways we currently can't imagine--those of us behind the firewall will be forced to wait, with baited breath, until higher powers allow us to partake in the revolution...
They can breathe easier now. In contrast to the more conservative gatekeepers at Merriam-Webster and The Oxford English Dictionary, the editors at American Heritage practice a linguistic open-door policy. Give us your "shock jocks," your "scuzzbuckets," they say. Give us your "digerati" yearning to "multitask." "People look at the dictionary as a normalizing thing," says executive editor Joseph Pickett. "It helps to give the word codified status." Not all words, thankfully. Take "stalkerazzi," which gained currency after Lady Diana's death. The term was considered for the dictionary but couldn't produce convincing credentials. Maybe it lost...