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Valleywag notes that Times tech columnist David Pogue is going back for another bite of the apple in his most recent column, "taking a look back at some of my weekly tech-review columns to see how their subjects have withstood the very brief test of time... Here it is, then, a review of the reviews." That seems to be the trend at the Times, at least tech-wise. Here's the opener of an article from today's Circuits:

IMAN HAYWARD is an 18-year-old college student and self-confessed contrarian. She likes to mix Cyberdog T-shirts with platform boots. She prefers vintage horror movies to modern remakes. And she does not like the Apple iPod.
"I was kind of anti-iPod because everybody had it," said Ms. Hayward, who lives in the Bronx.
That is not to say she dislikes portable music players. In fact, on Nov. 14 she will wait in line, if needed, to be among the first to own Microsoft's iPod alternative, the Zune — in the fudge-brown case, no less. "I'm going to be waving it in front of my friends' faces," she said. "They all have iPods."

And here's a Times piece from about four weeks ago:

When Max Roosevelt wanted to rebel, he got a Dell laptop and a SanDisk Sansa MP3 player. It was not a rebellion against his parents, who had been buying Dells for years. It was a rebellion against his peers, Mac-toting iPod addicts one and all. ''I just didn't want to have the same MP3 player as everybody else, and felt that there had to be equivalent or better players out there,'' Mr. Roosevelt, an 18-year-old native of Chappaqua, N.Y., said recently from his freshman dorm room at the University of Maryland. ''It's not that I don't like it; I just don't like the whole cult mentality towards Apple. I don't like how everyone gravitates toward it immediately.''

The folks at MacDailyNews see some sinister conspiracy against Apple on the NYT's part: they delineate more of the similarities between the two pieces. We're not convinced: Seems like more of a case of, "Sure, run it again, it's Circuits. Who's gonna know?"

David Pogue puts on an antic disposition [Valleywag]
New York Times' Apple iPod articles reveal very similar formula [MDN]