E3 And WWDC – It Seemed the Same

OK, it may just be me – but this week WWDC and E3 kind of felt the same to me.

I don't know if it's a case of perspective.  Perhaps I'm just used to seeing things from a "high-level" analysis point of view and I saw them as part of the same trends and patterns.  But it didn't feel like a case of perspective; it felt like I was seeing two things that were way too much a like.

The new technology.  The analysis of the trends by the pundits.  The market talk.  The discussion of repercussions.  More new technology.  More analysis.

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My Little Sony: Thoughts on The Sony Outage

Well you knew I'd chime in on the Sony Playstation Network outage and the SOE hack.  I knew I'd do it.

I expected the writeup to be done after the fact, since I write at times a week ahead.  I figured it'd be a measured analysis (and with an extra rant, perhaps).  I had all these expectations of what I'd do when PSN was up.

I didn't expect I'd write it when PSN was still down and this was still a developing story.

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