Sunday Morning Reading
Some Sunday morning reading to share.
Michael Fitzgerald in The New York Times writes that as close as we are to a mobile web, we're still pretty far away. He's more than correct on a number of fronts.
With the release of the Amazon Kindle, Connecting the Dots writes about how devices are sold when customers can't touch them. This is a strategy that largely failed with Tablet PCs. It will be interesting to see what happens with the Kindle in the long run. Here's my question. At what price point does going hands on lose it's relevancy?
Doc Searls blogs about writing out own rules vis-a-vis our data and the MoveOn.org move about protesting Facebook and privacy issues. As usual he nails it. The problem isn't Facebook or Google, the problem is users willingly submitting to giving this info up. Somebody clicks on links in emails, somebody answers telemarketers calls, and lots of somebodies are smart enough to take advantage of it.
A hole in the universe? Michael Parekh provides a link to some very interesting reading from The New Scientist on radio astronomers who have discovered a void in the universe that is beyond the understanding of cosmology. Is it another universe? Who knows.
The JibJab gang is getting into video greeting cards. Some funny clever stuff. Check them all out.
Did the book What It Takes alter the course of political journalism? I doubt it. Read history. Political journalism has always been one step away from mucking out sewers and covering horse races.
Tony Celeste of Tom's Guide writes not only about Leopard woes for some users, (we'll never see a major release from anyone anymore without significant issues) but more disturbingly (if it is true) that Apple disables caching of chat sessions with support drones unless you take steps to enable it.
