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Woodward’s piece here is not really an eye opener. But it does paint an unpleasant picture of a largely dysfunctional management culture.

I’ve been sadly neglecting Tumblr for a while now. Maybe this upgrade will offer some incentive to keep posting.

I can’t imagine any video app for the iphone won’t eat the battery in a few minutes. Still, the idea itself is exciting/

And wouldn’t you know this came a couple of days AFTER we’d opened some old bottles that were corked.

Great summary offers text summaries based on either text you paste in or a url you give it. It reminds me somewhat of Apple’s Summarize service.

Kevin Kelly argues that science fiction has trouble picturing the distant future because it can’t possibly anticipate the context of that future.

A way to search Twitter that lets you drill down into a search. It says it uses tags, but I think it really means search terms, or keywords in more traditional usage.

One of the cool things here is how it uses tag or keyword clouds to help narrow down and refine the search.

Steve Rubel on using gmail as a web hub. This guy really, really uses the newest web tools to great advantage. I remember a post he made about using Google Reader that still gives me ideas and ways of working with RSS.

Basic instructions on creating a swipe file, with a link to a blog that recommends using Tumblr for storing swipe file stuff.