Gartenberg: "Why is nytimesriver.com so much better than mobile.nytimes.com?"
A very nice piece, hope you read it, but he got one fact wrong. I just made the river site so I could read the news on my Blackberry. I didn't know about the official mobile Times site, because it hadn't yet been announced. They came out within days of each other, so it's understandable that the author thinks nytimesriver was a response, but it wasn't.
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