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The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING ! by ThinkAboutYourBreath · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING

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    Your brain usually takes care of breathing FOR you, but whenever you remember this, YOU MUST MANUALLY BREATH! If you don't you will DIE.

    There are also MANY variations of this. For example, think about:

    1. BLINKING!

    1. SWALLOWING SALIVA!

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    1. THAT ANNOYING SONG THAT GETS STUCK IN YOUR HEAD!


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    1. Re:THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes! I have been claimed! The THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING troll has got +++ NO CARRIER +++

  2. Re:Wow.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow a John Katz reference! what ever happened to that bald bastard?

  3. It's too bad ... by obsidianpreacher · · 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.
    --
    topreacher@signature.slashdot.org 1% rm -rf sig
  4. Please.. by Carlos+Silva · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please be careful with the subjects in the articles.. for a second there I thought it was about Mr.Ferrari laptop, Rob "Schumacher" Enderle.

  5. Re:Fact: *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fact *BSD is dying joke sucks cock just like your momma!

  6. Re:Mossberg _is_ needed... by zorglubxx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    because all the PHBs are folks... ...
    When I went to college(1979)...

    I know you havent been in college for a long time but now they are called PhD's

  7. Mossberg-Dairy Aisle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "The problem is the large number of jerks with mod points modding up inane, stupid or merely just ignorant posts to +5 makes it very hard to find the really insightful or intersting posts."

    What Slashdot does is the equivalent of a grocery store putting the diary section in the back.