Roscoe Gort, a Gearhead reader from Durham, N.H., just wrote in commenting on the recent "Jott, Twitter, RSS feeds and Goosh" Gearhead column: "If this were April 1, I would think your column on Jott.Twitter, etc. in Network World was a spoof." Really? OK. "The description of using Jott to remind yourself to get milk is a classic example of a technology looking for some justification - and not finding it," Gort wrote."You would pull off the freeway while calling Jott from your cell phone, right? And you would pull off again when the reminder was texted to you, right? Whatever happened to the idea of having an index card and pen in your pocket and marking "milk" on it as you drive down the freeway steering with your knees (as you would be with your cell phone anyway)?"
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