Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The NYT’s David Kirkpatrick had a very strong piece yesterday on John McCain’s foreign policy worldview, his embrace of neoconservatism, and his response to the attacks of 9/11. It applies a little more scrutiny than McCain is probably accustomed to receiving. [By the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001], Mr. McCain, the Vietnam War hero and famed [...]
Majikthise (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
David Kirkpatrick has a gushy little story in the New York Times about how tough John McCain was after 9/11 when he called for the invasion of Iraq to fight terrorists that weren't there. What did McCain do to earn...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
by publius David Kirkpatrick’s piece on McCain’s response to 9/11 and the “McCain Doctrine” should have been titled “McCain Repeatedly, Horribly Wrong on Virtually Everything About Iraq.” Kirkpatrick lays out several damning facts, but — frustratingly — makes the reader...
The Carpetbagger Report (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
The NYT’s David Kirkpatrick has a very strong piece today on John McCain’s foreign policy worldview, his embrace of neoconservatism, and his response to the attacks of 9/11. It applies a little more scrutiny than McCain is probably accustomed to receiving. [By the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001], Mr. McCain, the Vietnam War hero and famed [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... York office, and author of BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed. David Kirkpatrick, senior editor of internet and technology for FORTUNE Magazine, provides the foreword. To view the Multimedia News Release, go to: With digital technologies magnifying brand experiences, marketers are being asked to explore and integrate new channels for engaging consumers. The...
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... was a sin that must be confessed before receiving communion.From an October 12, 2004 article by David Kirkpatrick and Laurie Goodstein: In an interview in his residence here, Archbishop Chaput said a vote for a candidate like Mr. Kerry who supports abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research would be a sin that must be confessed before receiving Communion.Except that the 's 2004...
Population Statistic (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
Is Facebook fixture or fad? Fortune magazine senior editor David Kirkpatrick thinks it’s the former, so much so that he’s killing his Fast Forward column to devote himself to writing a book about the social network’s influence. Seems like quite a few of my selected reads have folded up lately. WSJ’s Informed Reader blog shut down [...]
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
... - before any additional perks are considered for that industry, according to her spokesman, David Falcone.A few years ago, lawmakers enacted a law that gives film producers 25 percent income tax credits on the amount they spend making movies in-state. A bill, proposed by State Representative Ron Mariano, a Quincy Democrat, would have gone further, giving a 20 percent tax credit for the companies...
Content Log (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Groucho Marx once said, "I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member." That was my original concern about attending the Fortune Brainstorm, a three day technology conference in Half Moon Bay California. I met one of the conference organizers, David Kirkpatrick at a couple of the World Economic Forum events and he is a very bright and insightful guy. But I thought...
iPhone.best-blog.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The success of the new iPhone has the Google (GOOG) top exec excited about his company’s own mobile efforts. “It shows you the power of a device that is a step forward,” said Schmidt in an interview Wednesday at Brainstorm Tech with Fortune senior writer David Kirkpatrick.
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on stage right now at Fortune’s Brainstorm conference being interviewed by Fortune’s David Kirkpatrick. Here are my notes live: Q: What is Google’s next great revenue stream? Schmidt: How about text ads? Q: The biggest knock against Google is that it is a one-product company. how do you respond [...]
BoomTown - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In BoomTown's ongoing quest to overdose on tech conferences, I traveled south of San Francisco last night for Fortune magazine's Brainstorm: TECH conference. Run by David Kirkpatrick, it's well done and a great place to run into a range of techies from Silicon Valley, as well as talk to more creative thinkers on where tech is going.
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
One of the reasons my posting has been sporadic is because, I am currently attending Fortune’s Briantech Conference being held at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay. David Kirkpatrick, a veteran technology journalist and author of upcoming, The Facebook Effect is hosting the event that has managed to draw some of the biggest technology [...]
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... device is immense, in an interview on Wednesday at Brainstorm Tech with Fortune senior writer David Kirkpatrick, Schmidt said: ‘The iPhone has a fully functional browser. We can show desktop ads, not mobile ads. That’s a huge change from our perspective,’ Google are moving forward fast and have indeed aggressively moved into the mobile market over the last year and with them building...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
... space," said Schmidt. He made his comments during the course of a interview with Fortune moderator David Kirkpatrick. Google CEO Eric Schmidt(Credit: Elinor Mills/CNET News)Schmidt's musings are not likely to come as any big surprise to Microsoft, but it suggests that the from a tough rival, sooner, rather than later. During his brief time on stage, Schmidt offered a whirlwind round...
