Blog citation volume for “iPhone” exceeded that of keywords “apple” and “ipod” during the launch yesterday. Note that the keyword apple can include any reference to the company, fruit or other. But buzz still hasn’t reached share as high as the January product announcement at Macworld (around the time of the Consumer Electronics Show).

I was in Washington, D.C. Friday for some meetings, and had to settle for a last-row middle seat in order to get on an earlier afternoon shuttle back to New York. I hate middle seats, but I didn’t mind during this trip because Senator Chuck Schumer was assigned to the seat next to me. I [...]

I’m guilty of regurgitating my last iPhone post in my latest MediaPost column.

A few different company and industry colleagues have asked over the past few days if some bloggers — in a rabid quest for attention and traffic — are inherently mandated to chime in the iPhone launch. The question is whether they’re consciously and opportunistically exploiting human readers and search engines that are primed and sensitized [...]

The New Scientist reports that doctors at a debate at the AMA “backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video-game addiction as a mental disorder akin to alcoholism on Sunday, saying psychiatrists should study the issue further.”
The problem with designating video-game addiction as a mental disorder is that the definition of video game is [...]