We’ve talked about the textbook market on the podcast in the past… think this device will have a prayer?

Keep in mind, he’s not saying that people who aren’t “building a brand” shouldn’t be ON Twitter, only making a correlation between following Twitter and being productive.

What do you think?

Google has decided to pull the plug on Wave, its innovative collaboration and communication tool. That’s a shame, because it can actually be a pretty useful product — as long as you can actually figure out what to use it for — and it showcased some big, ambitious ideas.  I think that the main reason …  Sent from gReader (Android)

A little background on net neutrality, for those of us that haven’t thought about it in a while.

Are we reaching a regressive stage of Internet development and innovation, or are we bound by the limits of our economic principles to run in cycles around any new business form?  That is to say, will capitalism always force new forms of information delivery into this model?  Good or bad?

Will WTMJ be better for it?  It depends on who replaces him, I suppose.  I’m stretching on these topic ideas…can you tell?

BBC – dot.Maggie: America: Are you happy?.

What would an actual scientist think about analysis like this?  Do they think it’s brilliant or crazy?

Quote: “”It was a really neat visualization that followed the whole game and let you learn a lot about America at the time.”

“Neat”…yes, it’s “neat”.

Is it anything else?

BBC News – Urgent spacewalks to fix ISS pump.

…buried.  Does science need a PR boost, or are we all too dumb to care?  Perhaps space exploration needs to be more like NASCAR?  Would more accidents get people to watch?

I often have trouble explaining Twitter to a newbie, because the flexibility of the platform is pretty extreme.  You can do things as simple and (relatively) useless as pushing out a stream of consciousness with your daily minutiae, or you can do the sort of thing that Tom Caswell started at Utah State University last year.

TwHistory uses the Twitter service to “re-enact” historical events by tweeting in the voices of key figures who were involved.  They’ve covered Gettysburg, the Cuban Missile Crisis, plans are in the work for the sailing (and sinking) of the Titanic, and they link out to others.

From now on, when I am introducing someone new to Twitter, I’ll still try to generalize and explain the basic purpose; but I’m going to mention this, too.

First we find spies, and now this?!

The port is actually meant for civilian use, but it’s nice that the Russian government is providing the infrastructure for it.

Perhaps we could redirect all the revenue Americans are spending on gourmet food for their pets to keep up with these folks.