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Entry Posted February 15, 2007

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Former Gizmodo editor Joel Johnson returns temporarily to dole out insults to manufacturers, consumers, and current Gizmodo editors. 14:52

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Mobile Phone (ggkandy.blogspot.com):
… thanks to a phrase equivalent to the score played played at ones' funeral, you know the one I'm talking about, "coming soon". I've seen several people write about this very topic over the past year. The one that sticks out, apart from Ewan's piece, isGizmodo's Joel Johnsonwho essentially rips the entire consumer electronics industry a new asshole. It takes balls my friends. Testicles that weigh so much you need a horse and carriage appointed by the king himself every time you wish to head to the market hall to purchase …

A Whole Lotta Nothing – Matt Haughey’s Personal Blog (a.wholelottanothing.org):
… the other million gadget blogs out there. It helps that it’s authored by my all time favorite gadget blogger, a man that deserves a medal for getting hired to write a regular column on Gizmodo, only to get fired after Gawker editors and readers tookhis first essayway too personally and seriously. It’s clear from day one of this new Boing Boing blog that this won’t be another shopping or wishlist gadget blog. Free from all the pointless gadget lust that powers other sites, this looks like it …

IntoMobile - Mobile Phone News and Reviews (ringnokia.com):
… thanks to a phrase equivalent to the score played played at ones' funeral, you know the one I'm talking about, "coming soon". I've seen several people write about this very topic over the past year. The one that sticks out, apart from Ewan's piece, isGizmodo's Joel Johnsonwho essentially rips the entire consumer electronics industry a new asshole. It takes balls my friends. Testicles that weigh so much you need a horse and carriage appointed by the king himself every time you wish to head to the market hall to purchase …

IntoMobile - Mobile Phone News and Reviews (www.intomobile.com):
… thanks to a phrase equivalent to the score played played at ones' funeral, you know the one I'm talking about, "coming soon". I've seen several people write about this very topic over the past year. The one that sticks out, apart from Ewan's piece, isGizmodo's Joel Johnsonwho essentially rips the entire consumer electronics industry a new asshole. It takes balls my friends. Testicles that weigh so much you need a horse and carriage appointed by the king himself every time you wish to head to the market hall to purchase …

Mobile Phone News (www.x-9.net):
… thanks to a phrase equivalent to the score played played at ones' funeral, you know the one I'm talking about, "coming soon". I've seen several people write about this very topic over the past year. The one that sticks out, apart from Ewan's piece, isGizmodo's Joel Johnsonwho essentially rips the entire consumer electronics industry a new asshole. It takes balls my friends. Testicles that weigh so much you need a horse and carriage appointed by the king himself every time you wish to head to the market hall to purchase …

bowes (bowes.wordpress.com):
… Interesting perspective. I am somewhere in between, I wait and buy and still can be way ahead of the conservative group waiting for a market leader to emerge.Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns…to Spank Us All for Supporting CrapPowered by ScribeFire. Posted in Commentary | …

The Lowest Form of Wit (lowestformofwit.blogsome.com):
… sans bloat and bullshit - by one clever programmer on the hardware of yesteryear. Yester-decade. Maybe I should buy a Mac. As a long-time PC user (enthusiast, even), that’s not easy to say. Seehere …

Link Banana &#8212 A Vaguely Intelligent Linkblog (www.linkbanana.com):
… Joel Johnson, who became one of my favorite gadget prognosticators withthis, explains the problem with Apple’s new MacBook Air: It’s too big. …

Woot! - One Day, One Deal's Journal (www.greatestjournal.com):
… margins, as a carnival of human weirdness in the 21st century, taking nothing seriously. You know, the way we do. But then, we're not tech journalists. Joel Johnson is, and how did he approach CES? He didn't. He stayed home. In contrast to his famous"retarded salmon"rant from a year ago, Johnson just sort of shrugged CES off in the plainest terms: "Ultimately, I had to ask myself if you guys would be missing out on anything if I didn't travel to CES this year and cover it from the ground. I don't think you are." …

Woot! - One Day, One Deal's Journal (www.greatestjournal.com):
… margins, as a carnival of human weirdness in the 21st century, taking nothing seriously. You know, the way we do. But then, we're not tech journalists. Joel Johnson is, and how did he approach CES? He didn't. He stayed home. In contrast to his famous"retarded salmon"rant from a year ago, Johnson just sort of shrugged CES off in the plainest terms: "Ultimately, I had to ask myself if you guys would be missing out on anything if I didn't travel to CES this year and cover it from the ground. I don't think you are." …

How To Spot A Psychopath (dansdata.blogsome.com):
… I give a standing ovation to anybody who can cope with this strain by merely turning off a bunch of flatscreens, rather than taking systematically directed advantage of Nevada’s easygoing firearms laws. Former Gizmodo head Joel Johnson wrote,memorably, about the issue of gadget-mania a while ago. It is, as he says, insane to ceaselessly pursue every latest new gizmo, when long experience has taught you that new gizmos are always just as buggy and disappointing and unlikely to …

kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products (www.kottke.org):
… 2007 was the year of book art: Thomas Allen's pulp cutouts, Cara Barer's water-crumpled books, Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books whose spines tell small stories, and Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.Joel Johnson's great post on Gizmodoscolding the site's writers, gadget makers, and the site's readers "for supporting the disgusting cycle of gadget whoring". Denis Darzacq's photographs of people seemingly floating above the pavement …

Dhamdhere's Soapbox (dhamdhere.typepad.com):
… Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting Crap …

MediaVidea (mediavidea.blogspot.com):
… 29. As Scott Carp asked, ‘what if Media 2.0 is less profitable than media 1.0'? 30. Are professional blogs any different from traditional media, continuing with the same old banal coverage of useless coverage? Calling it'Gadget Whoring', Joel Johnson's post at Gizmodo is perhaps the best tech writing of 2007. …

Yotofuji's Web Journal (yoto-journal.blogspot.com):
… 2007 was the year of book art: Thomas Allen's pulp cutouts, Cara Barer's water-crumpled books , Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books whose spines tell small stories, and Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.Joel Johnson's great post on Gizmodoscolding the site's writers, gadget makers, and the site's readers "for supporting the disgusting cycle of gadget whoring". Denis Darzacq's photographs of people seemingly floating above the pavement …

Bits o' the Interwebs (www.charliereece.com):
… 2007 was the year of book art: Thomas Allen's pulp cutouts, Cara Barer's water-crumpled books, Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books whose spines tell small stories, and Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.Joel Johnson's great post on Gizmodoscolding the site's writers, gadget makers, and the site's readers "for supporting the disgusting cycle of gadget whoring". Denis Darzacq's photographs of people seemingly floating above the pavement …

kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products (www.kottke.org):
… 2007 was the year of book art: Thomas Allen's pulp cutouts, Cara Barer's water-crumpled books, Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books whose spines tell small stories, and Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.Joel Johnson's great post on Gizmodoscolding the site's writers, gadget makers, and the site's readers "for supporting the disgusting cycle of gadget whoring". Denis Darzacq's photographs of people seemingly floating above the pavement …

So long, Technorati (kottke.org) (www.kottke.org):
… 2007 was the year of book art: Thomas Allen's pulp cutouts, Cara Barer's water-crumpled books, Nina Katchadourian's Sorted Books whose spines tell small stories, and Brian Dettmer's book sculptures.Joel Johnson's great post on Gizmodoscolding the site's writers, gadget makers, and the site's readers "for supporting the disgusting cycle of gadget whoring". Denis Darzacq's photographs of people seemingly floating above the pavement …

Home Entertainment: How-To Copy HD DVD Movies Using The Xbox 360 (gizmodo.com):
… The Original 1983 Microsoft Mouse Feb 2 2007 102,235 2. Coolest... Lamps... Ever... Feb 8 2007 92,891 3. Super Bowl Ad Watch: Top Spots Feb 5 2007 82,479 4. The Most Ridiculous Windows Video Ever Feb 7 2007 77,769 5.Horseshoes and Hand Grenades: Joel Johnson Returns...to Spank Us All for Supporting CrapFeb 13 2007 75,338 March 1. AppleTV First Unboxing Mar 21 2007 124,935 2. Best Booth Babe Ever: Samsung's Leopard Lady Mar 12 2007 117,883 3. DirectX 9 vs DirectX 10: Worth Upgrading to Vista For? …

Made Thing (madething.org):
… In the spirit of the Berry post, here’sJoel Johnson’s infamous column for Gizmodo: Stop buying this crap. Just stop it. You don’t need it. Wait a year until the reviews come out and the other suckers too addicted to having the very latest and greatest buy it, put up a review, and have moved on to something else. Stop buying …

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