Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …
- Gibbs On Cheney: “I Guess Rush Limbaugh Was Busy”: Eric Kleefeld
- CBS’ Chip Reid Asks Gibbs: Is This The Official Tone Toward Cheney?: Eric Kleefeld
- Why Are AIG’s Contracts Sacrosanct But Not Union Workers’ Contracts?: Ali Frick
- NY Attorney General To AIG: You Have Until 4:00 PM To Give Us The Names [Aig Bailout] – The torches and pitchforks are getting closer …
- EFF’s searchable archive of secret government docs: Cory Doctorow
- Twitter Paid $6 or Less for Crowdsourced ‘Birdie’ Graphic | Epicenter from Wired.com – And, pleasantly enough, the designer isn’t suing anyone over it.
- Girl Scouts Teaching The Wrong Lesson By Banning Online Sales | Techdirt – I probably net agree with GSA on this (whether they are doing it willingly or not), as this is not just about raising revenue, but teaching interpersonal sales skills (and being an activity that is at least partially driven by the kids).
- Seattle Newspaper Goes Online Only; World Doesn’t End: Dan Gillmor
- Twitter: No, you still don’t get it. – I think I am beginning both to “get” Twitter and figure out how I want be using it. But the key item this: follow what you like, be responsible for what you’re saying, and if it’s not your cuppa that’s fine — just don’t turn that into a jeremiad about how Twitter is turning the nation’s brains into mush. (Yes, I mean, you, Faux Cringely. Et al.)
- Office Depot To Employees: “Don’t Lie About Inventory” [Leaks] – Sounds like it was behavior that was being incented — “reach X% of your sales with support plans and something good happens / or else something bad happens.” Glad they’re addressing it, but …
- ‘Key to Eliminating U.S. Flight Delays? Redesign the Sky Over New York City’ [A Blog Around The Clock] – Yeah — I wouldn’t want to be the guy figuring out how to beta test this.
- Why Apple’s New iPod Shuffle Isn’t Consumer Friendly [Apple] – Making me all the more glad that I am depending — for the moment — on older, less blockable iPod technology for my music collection.
- This Is How All User Agreements Should Be Displayed [Legalese] – Nice. And, clearly, doable.
- Lawmakers, Regulators, Taxpayers Unbelievably Pissed At AIG [Aig Bailout] – The torches and pitchforks are getting closer …
- CEOs list US health care as liability in global market: Chris in Paris
- Unfortunately, Fred’s addiction: Cheezburger Network
- Really New Think for Old Publishers | William F. Aicher
- Juror’s Twitter posts cited in motion for mistrial – Uncool behavior from the juror. You don’t break trials that way.
- “Having [Rick] Scott lead the charge against healthcare reform is like tapping Bernie Madoff to campaign against tighter securities regulation.”: Joe Sudbay (DC)
- Twitter sucks, so change your friends. — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you’d had – I have a Twitter post coming some time. This article, though, does a good job of really explaining what it is (or, rather, what it is not) all about.
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