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The Economist concludes that e-readers cannot save newspaper and they don't have the resources to support them. I blanch at the thought that I should pay more for the WSJ because I now read it on my iPhone in addition to getting it at home. What are they thinking? I will simply choose another option. [...]

Safari iPhone bookmarklets: Clunky setup, but very useful I've wanted to post to delicious from my iPhone for a long time. The same article demos how to post to Twitter the same way. Check it out. (tags: Twitter delicious bookmarking socialmedia) Rethink the user interface on the touch phone? Maybe or perhaps we are getting [...]

Mobile Social is beginning to change the world of books. It’s also going to make reading even more accessible to the world’s poor. When Anne Ruan goes to work in the morning, the Beijing subway is so crowded she can barely find a spot to stand. But the real-estate agent ignores the jostling of the [...]

#LearnTrends 2009 just ended and my thanks to @jaycross and the other moderators. For the first time I began to believe that an online conference was really viable. The tools are improving. Elluminate worked well enough and provided the chat backchannel and reasonable audio. I'd like to see better integration with Twitter even if just [...]

This view needs amplification. @danyork on: How Twitter and Facebook violate “The Internet Way” | So does iPhone, Kindle and more A couple of decades later, we’ve found that “status messaging” or “microblogging” or whatever we want to call it is a powerful communication tool. We need now to tear down those walls and move [...]

R.I.P. Russell Ackoff with a great set of quotes! Thanks @jonhusband I'm generally with @gigaom that the N900 is the the future for Nokia at the intelligent rather than status end of the market. It's sad to see the launch of the N900 is a mere bleep in the US after the Droid launch this [...]

Another indicator that lists and geolocation will bring new innovation to the Twitterverse. Seesmic update… The problem with lists in Twitter is it is just too hard to add people. Enabling it in your Twitter App makes it much easier to create lists overtime when their name comes up. At least that is what I'm [...]