- Memo to Dell – Jeff Jarvis Does Matter (The Post Money Value) — Overheard conversations of two bank tellers who didn’t buy Dell, one specifically because of Jarvis’ blant (blog-rant) about Dell’s customer service.
- What Teenagers Think Email Is (Rexblog) — "It’s something used to talk to ‘old people’."
- Good Lord (John Battelle) — McKinsey consultants write not well.
- Google Patenting Ads in Syndicated Feeds? (John Battelle) — Next, world domination by the Googlies. Really it’s about Google patenting something that some people already seem to be doing.
- Book Excerpt: The Birth of Google (Wired) — How the Googlies got going at Stanford.
- We are the Web (Wired) — Article about how wrong the pundits were about the web 10 years ago, what it really is today and what it might become in another 10 years.
- Payday Loans Now Online (Moore’s Lore) — Slimy business makes its way into cyberspace.
- Magic Word (Moore’s Lore) — The real "c" word: communist.
- Q&A with the Next Generation (The Real Money Value) — Smart kids aska smart guy some good questions.
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