{"id":581,"date":"2007-01-12T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T02:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/the-dork-report-for-january-12-2007\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:29:52","slug":"the-dork-report-for-january-12-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-january-12-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for January 12, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fortune<\/em>‘s piece on Apple’s secrecy surrounding the iPhone<\/a> highlights two points I’ve always wondered about: 1. in a business world where Hewlett-Packard is the news for literally spying on its own employees for high-level boardroom leaks to the press, Apple’s security measures look decidedly quaint. And 2. as a web designer, I often think that of the privileged few assumed to have early access to items like this goes beyond the highly-paid CEOs, managers, and industrial design teams; what about the poor schmoes who have to crank out the web sites, product packaging, and manuals without even being able to tell their family and loved ones what they did at work all day, honey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/em> examines 24<\/em>‘s politics<\/a>, and strongly reminds me why I refuse to watch the show to which I was once addicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rolling Stone<\/em> posts video of Joseph Arthur and The Lonely Astronauts live<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fortune‘s piece on Apple’s secrecy surrounding the iPhone highlights two points I’ve always wondered about: 1. in a business world where Hewlett-Packard is the news for literally spying on its own employees for high-level boardroom leaks to the press, Apple’s security measures look decidedly quaint. And 2. as a web designer, I often think that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-mini","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dork-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dork-report.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa9lhB-9n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-october-5-2006\/","url_meta":{"origin":581,"position":0},"title":"The Dork Report for October 5, 2006","author":"Chad Ossman","date":"October 5, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Google Gadgets. 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