Tech Comics: “Checkbook Journalism”

Tech Comics: “Checkbook Journalism”

Gizmodo’s payment of $5,000 for a misplaced iPhone raises questions about the nature of journalism in the Internet age.

Next Cartoon: “(Another) Day in the Life of a Coder”

Next Cartoon: “(Another) Day in the Life of a Coder”

The creator of the Geek and Poke cartoon series is Oliver Widder.

Previous tech cartoons by the talented Oliver Widder:

•
Tech Comics: “What’s ‘Metadata’?”

•
Tech Comics: “A Day in the Life of a Coder”

•
Tech Comics: “Why the iPad is Better”

•
Tech Comics: “How to Meet Efficiently”

•
Tech Comics: “Another Geek in a Bar”

•
Tech Comics: “Social Networking vs. Life”

•
Tech Comics: “Men and Facebook”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks in a Bar”

•
Tech Comics: “Chatting in Real Time”

•
Tech Comics: “Real Geeks”

•
Tech Comics: “There’s an App for That”

•
Tech Comics: “Development Kick-Off Meeting”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks and the iPad”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks and Debugging”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks Have Always Been Strange”

•
Tech Comics: “The Geek and the User (part 2)”

•
Tech Comics: “Software Documentation?”

•
Tech Comics: “Cloud Computing Consultants”

•
Tech Comics: “The User and the Geek”

•
Tech Comics: “Automatic Email Completion (and Love)”

•
Tech Comics: “Enterprise Architecture Made Easy”

•
Tech Comics: “If Microsoft Had Developed Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter and Short Things”

• Tech Comics: “Stallman and Windows 7”

• Tech Comics: “Real Time Internet”

• Tech Comics: “Programmers are Artists”

• Tech Comics: “Love on Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Smartphones vs. Humans”

• Tech Comics: “Silent Unfriending”

• Tech Comics: “Why Geeks Love Gadgets”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter Users’ Favorite Pets”

• Tech Comics: “Einstein and Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “The Art of Programming”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter in the History of Communication”

• Tech Comics: “Social Networking in the Recession”

• Tech Comics: “Jobs and the Downturn”

• Tech Comics: “Your Facebook URL”

• Tech Comics: “Facebook Kids”

• Tech Comics: “Retweeting ‘I Love You'”

• Tech Comics: “Real Life in Real-Time”

• Tech Comics: “iPhone Dreams”

• Tech Comics: “Etiquette on Facebook-Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Facebook Friends”

• Tech Comics: “Did Apple Design the Cyclops?”

• Tech Comics: “Internet Boredom”

• Tech Comics: “iPhone vs. Windows 7”

• Tech Comics: “140 Characters”

• Tech Comics: “My First Apple”

• Tech Comics: “IT Staff Dislikes IT-Business Alignment”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter vs. Nuclear War”

• Tech Comics: “GPL3 and the Pentagon”

• Tech Comics: Tech Comics: “Chaste iPhone”

• Tech Comics: “Windows 7 Beta”

• Tech Comics: “Netbooks”

• Tech Comics: “Too Many Posts to Read”

• Tech Comics: “Apple is Virus Free”

• Tech Comics: “FUD”

• Tech Comics: “Love Story”

• Tech Comics: “Sex, Drugs & and The Internet”

• Tech Comics: “Dell, MacBook Air”

• Tech Comics: “Get Your iPhone App Accepted”

• Tech Comics: “Britney on Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Geeks in the Depression”

• Tech Comics: “A Hard Day’s Night”

• Tech Comics: “How to Survive the Depression”

• Tech Comics: “Return on Investment”

• Tech Comics: “Intelligent Design”

• Tech Comics: Tech Comics: “What Computers Have Taught Us”

• Tech Comics: “No Cut and Paste!”

• Tech Comics: “IE Porn Mode On, Pt.1”

• Tech Comics: “Too Late to Tweet”

• Tech Comics: “Don’t ‘Mojave’ Me”

• Tech Comics: “One Year in an IT Project, Day 22”

• Tech Comics: “The Longest Twitter Post”

• Tech Comics: Hacking Phones (Before the iPhone)

• Tech Comics: Jedi Knights and Blu-ray

• Tech Comics: Sex Ed and Firewalls

• Tech Comics: “The Next Big Thing”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter and 140 Characters”

• Tech Comics: “Why the iPhone has No Cut & Paste”

• Tech Comics: “Making Money from Web 2.0”

• Tech Comics: “Bill Gates in 2055”

• Tech Comics: “The Internet Today”

• Tech Comics: “Secure Browsing”

• Tech Comics: “Windows to OS X”

• Tech Comics: “Management Wants Web 2.0”

• Tech Comics: “He’s a Java Guy”

• Tech Comics: “One Year In an IT Project”

• Tech Comics: “Sounds of Silence”

• Tech Comics: “New Trends in Social Networking”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Savvy Kids”

• Tech Comics: “Offshoring”

• Tech Comics: “Sun Buys MySQL”

• Tech Comics: “One Day in the Life of a Geek”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Terms Explained”

• Tech Comics: “Too Busy for a Beer”

• Tech Comics: “Getting Fired, Web 2.0 Style”

• Tech Comics: “The Stepchild of Enterprise Software”

• Tech Comics: “The Latest from Facebook”

• Tech Comics: “There’s Hope for Email”

• Tech Comics: “The Perils of Social Networking”

• Tech Comics: “A Geek in Heaven”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Consultant’s Handbook”

• Tech Comics: “The Open Source Religion”

• Tech Comics: “The Tech Staff Meeting”

• Tech Comics: “Trying to Buy Two iPhones”

• Tech Comics: “Protecting the iPhone”

• Tech Comics: “Buying a Web 2.0 Company”

• Tech Comics: Web 2.0: A Cartoon History

• Tech Comics: “The Blogger’s Life”

• Tech Comics: “Googles Makes an Acquisition”

• Tech Comics: “One Year in an IT Project”

• Tech Comics: “How to Rescue a Project”

Tech Comics: “(Another) Day in the Life of a Coder”

Previous Cartoon: “Checkbook Journalism”

Previous Cartoon: “Checkbook Journalism”

The creator of the Geek and Poke cartoon series is Oliver Widder.

Previous tech cartoons by the talented Oliver Widder:

•
Tech Comics: “What’s ‘Metadata’?”

•
Tech Comics: “A Day in the Life of a Coder”

•
Tech Comics: “Why the iPad is Better”

•
Tech Comics: “How to Meet Efficiently”

•
Tech Comics: “Another Geek in a Bar”

•
Tech Comics: “Social Networking vs. Life”

•
Tech Comics: “Men and Facebook”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks in a Bar”

•
Tech Comics: “Chatting in Real Time”

•
Tech Comics: “Real Geeks”

•
Tech Comics: “There’s an App for That”

•
Tech Comics: “Development Kick-Off Meeting”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks and the iPad”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks and Debugging”

•
Tech Comics: “Geeks Have Always Been Strange”

•
Tech Comics: “The Geek and the User (part 2)”

•
Tech Comics: “Software Documentation?”

•
Tech Comics: “Cloud Computing Consultants”

•
Tech Comics: “The User and the Geek”

•
Tech Comics: “Automatic Email Completion (and Love)”

•
Tech Comics: “Enterprise Architecture Made Easy”

•
Tech Comics: “If Microsoft Had Developed Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter and Short Things”

• Tech Comics: “Stallman and Windows 7”

• Tech Comics: “Real Time Internet”

• Tech Comics: “Programmers are Artists”

• Tech Comics: “Love on Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Smartphones vs. Humans”

• Tech Comics: “Silent Unfriending”

• Tech Comics: “Why Geeks Love Gadgets”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter Users’ Favorite Pets”

• Tech Comics: “Einstein and Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “The Art of Programming”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter in the History of Communication”

• Tech Comics: “Social Networking in the Recession”

• Tech Comics: “Jobs and the Downturn”

• Tech Comics: “Your Facebook URL”

• Tech Comics: “Facebook Kids”

• Tech Comics: “Retweeting ‘I Love You'”

• Tech Comics: “Real Life in Real-Time”

• Tech Comics: “iPhone Dreams”

• Tech Comics: “Etiquette on Facebook-Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Facebook Friends”

• Tech Comics: “Did Apple Design the Cyclops?”

• Tech Comics: “Internet Boredom”

• Tech Comics: “iPhone vs. Windows 7”

• Tech Comics: “140 Characters”

• Tech Comics: “My First Apple”

• Tech Comics: “IT Staff Dislikes IT-Business Alignment”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter vs. Nuclear War”

• Tech Comics: “GPL3 and the Pentagon”

• Tech Comics: Tech Comics: “Chaste iPhone”

• Tech Comics: “Windows 7 Beta”

• Tech Comics: “Netbooks”

• Tech Comics: “Too Many Posts to Read”

• Tech Comics: “Apple is Virus Free”

• Tech Comics: “FUD”

• Tech Comics: “Love Story”

• Tech Comics: “Sex, Drugs & and The Internet”

• Tech Comics: “Dell, MacBook Air”

• Tech Comics: “Get Your iPhone App Accepted”

• Tech Comics: “Britney on Twitter”

• Tech Comics: “Geeks in the Depression”

• Tech Comics: “A Hard Day’s Night”

• Tech Comics: “How to Survive the Depression”

• Tech Comics: “Return on Investment”

• Tech Comics: “Intelligent Design”

• Tech Comics: Tech Comics: “What Computers Have Taught Us”

• Tech Comics: “No Cut and Paste!”

• Tech Comics: “IE Porn Mode On, Pt.1”

• Tech Comics: “Too Late to Tweet”

• Tech Comics: “Don’t ‘Mojave’ Me”

• Tech Comics: “One Year in an IT Project, Day 22”

• Tech Comics: “The Longest Twitter Post”

• Tech Comics: Hacking Phones (Before the iPhone)

• Tech Comics: Jedi Knights and Blu-ray

• Tech Comics: Sex Ed and Firewalls

• Tech Comics: “The Next Big Thing”

• Tech Comics: “Twitter and 140 Characters”

• Tech Comics: “Why the iPhone has No Cut & Paste”

• Tech Comics: “Making Money from Web 2.0”

• Tech Comics: “Bill Gates in 2055”

• Tech Comics: “The Internet Today”

• Tech Comics: “Secure Browsing”

• Tech Comics: “Windows to OS X”

• Tech Comics: “Management Wants Web 2.0”

• Tech Comics: “He’s a Java Guy”

• Tech Comics: “One Year In an IT Project”

• Tech Comics: “Sounds of Silence”

• Tech Comics: “New Trends in Social Networking”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Savvy Kids”

• Tech Comics: “Offshoring”

• Tech Comics: “Sun Buys MySQL”

• Tech Comics: “One Day in the Life of a Geek”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Terms Explained”

• Tech Comics: “Too Busy for a Beer”

• Tech Comics: “Getting Fired, Web 2.0 Style”

• Tech Comics: “The Stepchild of Enterprise Software”

• Tech Comics: “The Latest from Facebook”

• Tech Comics: “There’s Hope for Email”

• Tech Comics: “The Perils of Social Networking”

• Tech Comics: “A Geek in Heaven”

• Tech Comics: “Tech Consultant’s Handbook”

• Tech Comics: “The Open Source Religion”

• Tech Comics: “The Tech Staff Meeting”

• Tech Comics: “Trying to Buy Two iPhones”

• Tech Comics: “Protecting the iPhone”

• Tech Comics: “Buying a Web 2.0 Company”

• Tech Comics: Web 2.0: A Cartoon History

• Tech Comics: “The Blogger’s Life”

• Tech Comics: “Googles Makes an Acquisition”

• Tech Comics: “One Year in an IT Project”

• Tech Comics: “How to Rescue a Project”

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