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DEL.ICIO.USGive up the BarackBerry?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Photo by Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times
Our next president has a huge fight waiting for him as he takes office this month.
Whether to give up his BlackBerry.
“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” Barack Obama said. “They’re going to pry it out of my hands.”
This article says the nation’s 44th president is being advised to hang up the electronic device for security purposes. He’s not giving up without a fight.
“I’m still in a scuffle around that,” Obama said in an interview broadcast on the Today Show. “How do you stay in touch with the flow of everyday life?”
Indeed, how do you?
Has your BlackBerry become your indispensable companion? Or do your 2009 resolutions include laying off the e-mail during your off-hours.
Anyone have tips on breaking the habit for President-Elect Obama, if he does indeed have to surrender his BlackBerry?
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By Grant Parker
January 9, 2009 12:47 PM | Link to this
I am not encumbered by a BlackBerry, so I cannot speak about its addictive qualities. Still, I believe that Mr. Obama will be too busy dealing with other things — oh, a tanking economy, Palestinians and Israelis doing what they have always done, the Kyoto Protocol, that sort of stuff — to spend much time twiddling around on a BlackBerry.