The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday May 6, 2004 @02:13PM from the old-man-murray-notwithstanding dept.

prostoalex writes "The Wired magazine takes a look at Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for Wall Street Journal Personal Technology section. The magazine quotes some of the technology advances and fixes, for which we should be thankful to Walt Mossberg: 'RealNetworks overhauled its RealJukebox player. Intuit revamped TurboTax. Mossberg even forced Microsoft to scrap Smart Tags, which would have hijacked millions of Web sites by inserting unwanted links to advertisers' sites. Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures.'"

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It's too bad ... by obsidianpreacher · 2004-05-06 14:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism
Too bad the two links in the summary go to Wired and the WSJ, or else I could make some witty comment about /. being "The Most Powerful Force in Technology Spontaneous Combustion" and get a +5, Funny ...

Or perhaps I could make some reference to Star Wars and the little-used quote about something being the "ultimate" in the universe ...

Oh well.

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