Mentioned in the New York Times

Posted By: Bob Buskirk on February 24th, 2010
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Back in January I wrote an article on ThinkComputers about this year’s experience at CES, where companies were getting thrown out of hotels because they did not register with the CEA. I also reposted the article on this blog as I wanted to share my experience with all of the readers here. About a week after the article was posted I was contacted by the New York Times, they interviewed me for about 30 minutes about the article and my CES experience this year compared to last year. I was pretty cool being interviewed, I have only been interviewed 2 other times and it was by websites, not a big publication like the New York Times. Here is a quote from the article…

Bob Buskirk, who attended the electronics show and owns a Web site, ThinkComputers, that reviews hardware and software products, said he had “never been kicked out of a hotel room or even heard of companies being kicked out.” But this January, he said, two of his meetings were disrupted when the vendors were ejected by hotel security. “From what I’ve heard anecdotally, the amount of unlicensed vendors was certainlly the most it’s been in recent memory,” said Mr. Reese of the Sands.

Mr. Buskirk, who has been attending the show for five years, said that the show’s exhibits seemed to take up much less space this year. A spokeswoman for the association confirmed that the show’s size dropped to 1.4 million square feet of exhibit space.

The article is online here and appeared in print in the February 16th New York Edition of the Times. What is interesting is that most of the things I write are for a reason, a company sends me a product I have to write the review etc. I just felt that this was something that needed to be talked about and interestingly enough it got a lot of attention.

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8 Responses to “Mentioned in the New York Times”

Coast guard gifts said on February 26th, 2010 at 8:59 am

The only newspaper I subscribe to is the Wall Street Journal. A little dry but good old fashioned unbiased reporting. It is strongly bent towards economic news. It’s a tad expensive but hey, if you want quality journalism…
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australian stock market said on March 1st, 2010 at 11:45 pm

Congrats for the interview held by, and even new york times is much great, so you made up the interview in fist.

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Coast guard gifts said on March 2nd, 2010 at 5:07 am

I’m in two minds over this. I dislike having to navigate to another page to read comments, but at the same time it would be too easy to turn a simple informative article into a political or self-serving forum when any Joe Bloggs can get his views onto the front page.
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Michael Kwan said on March 4th, 2010 at 11:13 pm

Very cool. I’ve been mentioned in a couple local Vancouver papers, but nothing quite like the NYT. Kudos.
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personalised gifts said on March 5th, 2010 at 7:36 am

I’d be pretty happy to subscribe to the Times online. I use it a lot, value it a lot, and appreciate the innovative use of web technologies they use. If my subscription allows a few freeloaders to get the news for free, so does my donation to public radio. And at this point, it’s not like the Times is making any money either.

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Better My Relationship said on March 5th, 2010 at 9:35 pm

Wow awesome to be mentioned in the NYT. Now thats a way to get your name out there!

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used tires said on March 9th, 2010 at 6:18 am

Congrats on getting mentioned in the NYT. Makes it all the more special given the subject matter of your article bringing about awareness of this issue.

Till then,

Jean

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halloween Costumes said on June 2nd, 2010 at 4:56 pm

i love to read the article from new york times. very infomative

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