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  1. 6 of NASA's 9 new astronaut candidates were born after the Apollo 11 crew's giant leap for mankind. http://is.gd/1vCMC
  2. More photos from last week's Zeppelin flight from Silicon Valley to Long Beach aboard @airshipeureka http://is.gd/1tgGq
  3. Cartoon and blog posting: A media biz monster mashup -- Frankenpaper vs. Count Googlia (http://is.gd/1t3N1)
  4. Diversion to Neverland: Zeppelin ride unexpectedly offers a high-altitude look at the state of the news business. http://is.gd/1lCys
  5. For some extra unreality, might pass over MJ's "Neverland" on @airshipventures' Zeppelin w/i the hour.
  6. Only in Silicon Valley: iPhone briefly catches a wifi signal from ~1300 feet
  7. Preparing for a 400-mile "flight-seeing" trip down the Calif. coast aboard @airshipventures' Zeppelin "Eureka" http://is.gd/1jNfc
  8. Tom Wolfe: "I was at one time a journalist. We don’t deal with fiction. Not intentionally." (in a 2008 interview: http://is.gd/1hlGP)
  9. MJ news drives Yahoo 1-day record w/16M visitors; compare w/4M primetime viewers for CNN (http://is.gd/1g5Si, http://is.gd/1g5Yl)
  10. Michael Jackson bumps Sanford from the top spot on the homepage of @thestate, the state capital paper in S.C.
  11. Personal news: Leaving GOVERNING and CQ Inc. next month to take on an exciting new gig at NPR (http://is.gd/19iHQ)
  12. Wi-fi at 30,000 feet. Experimenting with gogoinflight.com's service on Delta. My kind of cloud computing.
  13. @markwarner, speaking at Symantec gov't symposium: procurement policy, h.r. and tech are keys to cutting deficit.
  14. Lady Croom in Tom Stoppard's play "Arcadia": "A hermit who takes a newspaper is not a hermit in whom one can have complete confidence."
  15. Pew News Quiz question w/lowest % correct answers: How many U.S. military personnel have been killed in Iraq? http://is.gd/YLEw
  16. Flashback: 2003 NPR story on impact of this new Craigslist thing focuses on Boston; Globe sees "threat." http://is.gd/YvSe
  17. Video from the Press Club appearance by journalist/author/producer David Simon, whose remarks I jabbered about earlier: http://is.gd/TZcJ
  18. More David Simon: Reader involvement? "I never really cared what the reader thought."
  19. More David Simon: Iraq war was a "system failure" by the MSM, but "the alternative" to professional journalism "is even more miserable."
  20. More David Simon: "I don't believe in unprofessional journalism." Some blogging is "worthy," he adds, but as "commentary."