I suspect President-elect Obama knows how he feels. In a recent interview he expressed a strong desire to stay in touch with the real world.

“I’m still clinging to my BlackBerry,” he told CNBC. “They’re going to pry it out of my hands.” He does not want to succumb to the isolation of the presidential bubble. I applaud that. And so I’m on his side in the Battle of the BlackBerry.
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