So, how's everyone been doing for the past six months? Honestly, life in these United States has been every bit as painful as I expected, but that doesn't make it any better. It's been a series of body blows to institutions we assumed we
Please allow me to confess my completely irrational annoyance with a multitude of my fellow journalists who cover more or less the same tech space that I do. I am speaking, specifically, of those frazzled, overworked souls who get an easy (and probably tiny!) paycheck on the first day of
We've finally made it, haven't we? Just two more weeks before we can all finally cast our votes. (Or, for those of us who already voted, to finally have our votes counted. Major props to Jimmy Carter, who lived long enough to vote for Kamala Harris.
Plus some thoughts on Twitter and an update on the transition from Substack I was happy to return to ZDNET last July after a six-month sabbatical and realized today that I haven't officially announced that fact. So, consider this an announcement. These days I'm publishing regularly
"Life," John Lennon once infamously said, "is what happens when you're busy making other plans." That, my friends, is a pretty tidy summation of the last six months for me. Judy and I had planned to make a fairly momentous move this year. If
Welcome to the new home of Ed Bott's READ ME. It took a little longer to leave Substack than I had thought, for reasons both technical and practical. The last thing I want to do is invest a lot of time and energy in a new platform only
This is Ed Bott's READ ME, a brand new site by Edward Bott that's just getting started. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when
Sorry, was off punching Nazis
I really didn't want to be thinking about Nazis for the entire holiday season, but here we are.
AI-powered chatbots should really be called "bullshit machines." And maybe we shouldn't trust them with important questions.
Let's catch up, shall we?
Sorry for ducking out like that, I just needed a bit of fresh air