David Broder. Donald Luskin. Robert Novak. Judith “WMD” Miller.
Accuracy and ethics among “serious” “journalists” are by no means better than those exercised by the average blogger.
I normally love your blog, but this one just smacks of hypocrisy. You’ve made big mistakes before (often it seems because you wish it were true); a bit of self-reflection would have been appropriate.
For sure. I make mistakes all the time.
And better still, you regularly acknowledge fix the mistakes too.
But I can’t think of any time I’ve posted something that
was patently, obviously wrong through outright carelessness
and/or failure to do basic research on a topic.
How about when you said the iPod had no EQ options, no gapless playback, requires partitioning to be used as a hard disk, and that there were no alternatives to iTunes?
None were true at the time of writing, and only the gapless playback was recently fixed (nearly three months before your post).
I recall this example most clearly because it seemed so unlike you to jump aboard the hip-to-hate-the-iPod bandwagon. I’m sure if I looked back I’d recall others.
I still agree with over 90% of what you post, and I have no argument with the thrust of this particular one, but as programmers we need to remember that egos and biases don’t survive compilation. 
Has anyone done a comparison between the relative openness of Flash versus Siverlight? We’ve just started winning the battle of browser standards; I’d hate for that to be all for naught.
Indeed, I’m a little confused as to the point. WMV isn’t significantly better than VP6 (my own tests would suggest “barely”). And although there aren’t any strong competitive implementations, the Flash specification is open enough to allow such implementations to be made.
If any format should be adopted, it should be the integration of SVG into the HTML model, and the adoption of a standard, patent-unencumbered format for plugin-less audio and video. As the guy from Opera said, browser support for video and audio should be as generic and standard as the img tag.
@ Karthik
Fact checking from real journalists seems to be an optional extra for a lot of them too. Takes too much time to validate stuff.
@bg: “I take [it] you left comments on the relevant blogs, advising them of their errors?”
Your Jeff did so on Vista Smalltalk…and the blogger thanked him and changed the post.
Comment posters should check their facts too! We should hold ourselves to the same standards we expect from bloggers and journalists. To do otherwise, and bitch about it, would be hypocritical.