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  1. Dan Gillmor fact-checks a column http://bit.ly/7pDOHw, showing again that the traditional press often claims more rigor than it delivers
  2. Oh, MSFT-NewsCo, you are already the AOL-TW Wonder Twins of the era, and you haven't even happened yet. "Shape of...SYNERGY!"
  3. 4/4 There is a big opportunity for an "App Store for Netbooks" (& laptops & PCs). No one's there yet, but Jolicloud is closest.
  4. 3/4 If the user *ever* needs access to the file system, the Screen mode of interaction is almost impossible to do right.
  5. 2/4 There is no sweet spot between the PC windowing model and the iPhone's "the app is the screen" model. You have to pick one.
  6. 1/4 I've tried 5 netbook operating systems in the last 3 months (OSX, Ubuntu, MIE, Moblin, Jolicloud) & I've learned 3 things:
  7. RT @wikileaks WikiLeaks to release over half a million 9/11 intercepts http://911.wikileaks.org/
  8. RT @diveintomark Google Wave is a great tool for collaborating with people. Unfortunately, it turns out I don't actually like people.
  9. "Hey, I know!" I sez to myself, I sez. "I'll run up to Boston and back on the same day, two days before Thanksgiving. That'll go great!"
  10. RT @nelson: Congrats to @wesabe on launching Springboard! Great service for banks and people. https://www.getspringboard....
  11. RT @nickbilton: I just realized that I haven't used 411 in over three years. I wonder if it's still in business?
  12. More on the Mutualization of Everything: mobile home owners buy the land as a coop. http://bit.ly/86t9h0 (via @kitode)
  13. RT @doctorow: Brits: petition to kill three strikes law http://tinyurl.com/ydln2yf TELL YOUR FRIENDS
  14. RT @om: Hey Engineers, Skype is looking to hire a lot of you. Estonia, Stockholm and Bay Area. http://om.bit.ly/71E5WA
  15. RT @codinghorror: Buy Bad Code Offsets Today! http://www.codinghorror.com...
  16. When your medical records are stolen, health care provider can "self-assess" whether harm was bad enough to tell you: http://bit.ly/3kh5tr
  17. AMZN sells a laptop desk for your steering wheel: http://bit.ly/1TFOkI Don't miss the reviews, photos, or tags |tx @quinnnorton
  18. "Starting today, we're enabling people to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. courts" http://bit.ly/1hLU35 #i{heart}google
  19. A-a-a-nd the server's back up: A crazy idea for saving local bookstores by mutualizing them: http://bit.ly/1iLyP9
  20. Ah, how very like Dreamhost to start serving up 500 errors when I post a link. Will repost whenever they get this sorted.