Word: ipodding
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...always a little funny to read what adults are saying about us kids. I'm a 17-year-old who does not own an iPod, has been on MySpace.com only once and has to be reminded by my mother to bring my cell phone anywhere. Who IMs their friends before school to ask what they're wearing? Maybe my friends and I are way behind the times, but we prefer to hit the snooze button in the morning and handle technology after 3 p.m. Then again, I realized I was reading your article while waiting for my e-mail...
...participants in your forum on trends of the future, "Around the corner" [March 20], said the shower is the last bastion of contemplative solitude because it's the only place he's not hounded by electronic devices. But he has the power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts. Tracey Gilpin Marlborough, Massachusetts, U.S. Harvard...
...compressing music to a size easily distributable over dial-up modems had been standardized (mp3 was publicly released in 1994), dozens of innovators jumped in. They wrote mp3 playing software, built Internet-based distribution tools, and started to design CD players which supported the files. Six years later, the iPod was born...
Apple, oft-billed as the counter-establishment alternative to monolithic Microsoft, isn’t guilt-free by any stretch: their code for copy-protecting music file is also kept under lock and key, and it’s the only language that the iPod understands. If you want to sell copy-restricted music that will play on an iPod, you’re out of luck unless you want to go through the iTunes Music Store...
...participants in you Forum on trends of the future, "Around the Corner" [March 20], said the shower is the last bastion of contemplative solitude because it's the only place he's not hounded by electronic devices. But he has the power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts...