Every's par for the course (Score 1)

Sure, in this case David Every stepped on a semantic land mine; sure, you'd think if he was writing a whole article about a definition he might have bothered to look the term up. (Fine, okay, he could explicitly say the term is evolving beyond its old definition, but then he doesn't give us a clear definition of his own, does he, he just kind of stirs the sediment up...)

IMHO there isn't much of technology journalism that doesn't seem to need an editor just about as badly as this does. Every stands out mainly for his court-jester-as-lightning-rod swagger. Mac folks are more than a little chargrined by his gifts that way. But go scan C/Net a bit, and you'll wince just the same.

Every doesn't think the technology through any more than he does his occasional political opinion. (We had an e-mail exchange once about gays in the military, and he didn't have a clue what he'd put his foot in there either.)

Let it roll off.