Bill Gates in space soon? See Slashdot.

The old Dinosaurs were as smart as the actual ones (see Donna Bogatin and Jason Calacanis).

For the most people using software (open or closed source) is not better or worse than using a paperclip.
For Richard Stallman (see John Carroll) it's a question of ethic.

After Google will have gained the web monopoly (see Donna Bogatin) it will try to dominate the ad free premium physical mail market.

See Ryan Naraine

Just a few additiobs after the big news of the day like Arrington's acquisition and his ban from the Internet and - of course - Scobles latest discovery.

Today's cartoon is just related to the history.

Not long ago Nicholas Carr was constantly declaring the death all new trends (see an old post of this blog).
Michael Arrington and Robert Scoble are still doing the same with the old trends.
I've never understood the purpose of all these XYZ-Is-Dead-Mantras.

P.S.: This is the second episode of my personal XYZ-Is-Dead-Series. See the first episode here.

Since a couple of weeks Jason Calacanis is propagating Fatblogging(tm) (see e.g. Fatblogging(tm) is not a competition or 191).

That's wanton. Doesn't he know the social dangers of Fatblogging(tm)?

As a reply of Deep Jive Interests Jason Calacanis denies the existence of a 2-class-blogosphere with A-List-Bloggers and Blue Collar Bloggers.
This picture proves the opposite.

No ROI with SOA (see Joe McKendrick).

Thank God there is one out there fighting for the poor (see Slashdot and Don Dodge - seen through Techmeme)

Donna Bogatins's posts about the micro-community sites Ning and Cisco's Tribe.net
(see Andreessen vs. Cisco: Web 2.0 platform competition heats up and Web 2.0 Social Networks: Cool but marginal and unprofitable?).

But how many micro-communities can we stand? Have we still reached the point where producing is easier than consuming?

Massacre at Digg through an organized group (see Jason Calacanis and Jason Calacanis).

Software bugs in the air (see Slashdot) may be a good plot.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes asks whether you would pay $500 for an iPhone.
Don't do it. Just wait until the First-Geek-Wave will have ended.

Ed Bott writes about "A brief history of anti-piracy at Microsoft".

I'm curioius if we'll someday be brave enough to not buy the things we don't like.

See Scoble vs. DWeatherly. (And tell me what's that about. I haven't got it yet.)