No but the analogy I'd make is between traditional news organizations and bloggers.

The bloggers can post stories and claims much quicker, don't have to vet the story, check as many sources as possible, worry about legal repercussions, etc.

The traditional news organization is going to hew to standards and while they're interested in getting the scoop on competitors, they are less likely to take shortcuts than bloggers.

I believe it was the New York Times that had to retract 11 stories on an important national security issue because they were false and they even had people within the Times warn them that a number of the stories "didn't make sense" whom they ignored. Details deleted to stay out of P/R ;)

Yeah but whom do you generally trust more? The NY Times or some blogger?

That's not to say the Times or any other major news organization is infallible or that a blogger could post the truth well before any major media.

But generally, who's accountable and who isn't?

Depends on the blogger. :p

Trying Waze- a traffic reporting app for Canada and the US.

Seems alright, though I worry about using it while driving due to alot of hands free laws etc.

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What he said. I have done a fair number of interviews with the mainstream media over the years. The quality range is staggering. Forbes I think is the only one who actually had a fact checker call me and confirm what I said, what it meant and that I was willing to go on the record. LA Times and Financil Times experiences were also good. Some of the rest have produced results I could only shake my head at and laugh. My last visit to te NY Times resulted in an overall interesting article but with a mistake so wild that it participated emails teasing me from colleagues around the country. Fortunate it was so implausible that they knew it didn't actually come from me.

Windows on iPad?
 

Anyone tried this: http://desktop.onlive.com/?

David Pogue's update today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/te...ref=technology

Guess it's a nice option but some people get iPads to get away from Windows.;)

Anyways, if the rumors of Office for iPad turn out to be true, kind of makes this service moot.

I agree on Windows part!

My interest is purely in Excel and Word access. I think it would mean could make it easier to manipulate with iPad?

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I would love to see Office for iPad. The online Windows, I agree with you, I just don't get. The one limitation of my iPad at this point now that I have presentations sorted out, is editing documents while tracking changes. If that worked I could almost always leave the notebook home.

Open & Print pdf Email Attachments?
 

I sometimes need to email pdf attachments to an older relative who has an iPad. Is there a simple way for her to open and print these attachments?

She has a wireless printer that she uses to print emails and attached photographs.

open? Yes, she just opens them in the mail app like any other attachment type supported by the mail app. Try it yourself on your iphone or ipad.

print? I guess you need airprint support or something else. Does her existing wireless printer support airprint?

There have been hacks published on how to enable airprint on existing printers on your existing network, but the ones I've seen rely on you having a mac on your network (they share them from the mac, with airprint support added there). Probably not something I would recommend to a novice. Maybe there's something else out there, I confess I haven't spent any real time looking into airprint.

-David

Wow. I just downloaded Zite. It is a free news aggregator. It has an expert system to pick additional articles based on your liking or disliking the ones you read. You can also promote or block sources once it finds them. I have it searching everything from exercise to bioinformatics. It is fantastic.

I am a big fan of Zite as well- it is very useful indeed.

Have Zite, Flipboard and Google Current.

Flipboard has a fun UI.