These are presented in no particular order:
- For the ink-stained wretches (or the former ink-stained wretches) in the readership: Rebecca MacKinnon’s great article about why CNN is dying.
- How blogging is making its mark in the foreign policy sphere.
- Clay Shirky on flaming and social software. The idea seems to be that unlimited participation by individuals in a group setting might be a bad idea…
- Somewhat related: how using content aggregators (like RSS readers, for example) changes the way we process information.
- Also related: Tom Coates puts up five years of weblog data, and his users turn it into some interesting visualizations, plus more here and a final note about them.
- An amusing set of three shirts for blue-staters.
- The true story of Audion, the first great MP3 player, and one of the first Mac MP3 players. I used this for years, at least until iTunes 3.0 came out.
- The Dubya Movie, with the most unlikely star ever. Well worth the download.
- Multimedia speakers that go to 11. No, really: they literally go up to 11.
- Brent Simmons on two things all OS X users should know.