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...least that's the thinking at Apple, who released an update to their iPod Shuffle line on March 11 that's completely devoid of buttons. It shouldn't be surprising - if the offensive against buttons has a four-star general, it's Steve Jobs. He and his Apple army have stripped buttons from iPhones, iPods and MacBooks all in the name of their clean, sleek aesthetic. Apple - trendsetter extraordinaire - has put the button on notice. If this trend continues, the button stands to go the way of the crank or dial: uncouth, uncool, unloved, unremembered. (See pictures of 30 years...
...some people believe this model may fundamentally change the news business. When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer became the first large daily newspaper to stop printing and move entirely to the Web, on March 18, the new site was structured uncannily like HuffPo, its original content reduced and jostling for space with guest blogs, wire stories and links to other news sites...
...veteran news hands about HuffPo's rise. In December the site's Chicago section was found to have been plagiarizing. "This was a problem with an intern," says Huffington. "There was no excuse, and we corrected it." When I point out that the initial story the site posted in March on Nick Schuyler, the football player who survived a storm at sea, carried Zaleski's byline even though 80% of the copy was taken verbatim from the St. Petersburg Times, Huffington says that the story drew from several sources - and that they don't mind. "We drive millions of page...
...Kindle was the first baby step toward the post-Web world. The FLEPia, and its descendents, is another. The march is picking up speed: The iPhone is a terrific example of a post-Web device. Yes, you can use it to browse the Web, but it works so much better via the native iPhone applications that you download...
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner had every reason to think he had seen all of AIG's dirty laundry. The government owned 80% of the company, and Geithner had just orchestrated AIG's most recent handout - its fourth, if you are keeping score, for $30 billion on March 2 - to prevent the teetering insurance giant from going over the cliff and taking the rest of the global financial system with it. AIG had already cost the taxpayers some $170 billion, mostly to repair the damage done by one of its units, AIG Financial Products (AIG FP), which last year alone piled...