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Mike Daisey
Personal blog · mikedaisey.blogspot.comculturewriting
Mike Daisey's personal blog at mikedaisey.blogspot.com covers culture and writing. Since 2011, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “David Pogue Is Only Competent to Review Gadgets”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mike Daisey's blog, where he posts about his monologue work and his responses to the controversy over his Apple and Foxconn piece. HN readers link it for those responses and a talk on the subject.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The online home of monologist, author, and solo performer Mike Daisey.
Most-linked posts?
- David Pogue Is Only Competent to Review Gadgets2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-24
What Hacker News says?
While reading Daisey's response[1], something jumped out at me: as a defense for "embellishing the truth" he says: "What I do is not journalism. The tools of the theater are not the same as the tools of journalism." Why does that defense (from a disgraced journalist) sound familiar? Oh yeah, David Pogue, when faced with serious charges of conflict of interest: "I am not a reporter. I’ve been an opinion columnist my…
Comment linking /2012/02/david-pogue-is-only-competent-to-review.html
on “This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"”Submitted Mike Daisey: Some Thoughts After The Storm as a story · 20 points
HN discussionWas at the Microsoft campus bus stop in Redmond recently and it was plastered (and I mean plastered) w/ posters for Mike Daisey's spoken word piece: http://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/
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on “Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years”Submitted David Pogue Is Only Competent to Review Gadgets as a story · 9 points
HN discussionhttp://mikedaisey.blogspot.com/2012/03/georgetown-talk.html?... He talks about it here...for an hour...and it is good.
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on “Mike Daisey: Some Thoughts After The Storm”Submitted I thought Mike Daisey was full of shit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mike Daisey: Don't pre-order the iPhone 5, the ethical choice is to wait as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mike Daisey Apologizes (Again) as a story · 1 points
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