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In a world gone mad...

I love print magazines. Love them, love them, love them. I spend a large portion of my day on Monday reading through the vast array of print magazines we subscribe to. It is interesting to note that some of the folks in Iowa are warming up to Giuliani, but others find his three marriages to be a problem and that 'several decades of sexual liberation and feminism and a decade of Internet dating' has led to the demise of the romantic movie (TIME). I am glad to see that Max Levchin isn't going to just stop working after selling Paypal for 1.5 billion in 2002, oh no, he is working on a way to make money off of the Widget (which, btw, my mother just asked me what the hell a widget is and if she needs them - I told her no, sorry Max) and I am sad to see that only about 60% of the population in New Orleans proper has returned since Katrina (FORTUNE). A friend of mine, 30 years old and HUGE fan of High School Musical, would have loved to find out 'Why do kids love Zac Efron?' and my younger sister was very interested in 'how schools are failing our smartest kids' - she is pretty smart and she doesn't feel as if she has been failed (TIME, again). BusinessWeek is focused on the 'Future of Work' and has poll results that are fabulously interesting. Fortune Small Business is in love with Babson University (came in tops on most of their 'America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs' lists). Fast Company covers how green Wal-Mart really is and the 16 year old CEO of WhateverLife.com, who makes me jealous (she is worth a LOT of money) and sad (she dropped out of high school) at the same time.

In a world obsessed with online coverage, blogs and INSTANT news, I think there is still a place for the print magazine. And while it is sad to see them fail (Business2.0) or get progressively smaller and shorter (Red Herring, TIME), reading the ones we get is the highlight of my Monday, every week.

Twitter, I hardly knew ya...

Well, in all honestly, I don't know you at all. I don't understand twitter's appeal, and with a new social media (new media, social networking, etc.) tool introduced every 2.5 hours or so, you have to pick and choose - and I decided no twitter. I think this was a pretty good decision because I keep hearing people say they have found the 'next' twitter or a 'better' twitter. However, others have embraced it full heartily - and I have two examples of how it has hampered rather than enhanced their online experience. First, on Tuesday, Robert Scoble announced he was taking some time off blogging because, among other reasons, he went to review his twitter account and realized the content he was pushing out was 'angry, confrontational, disturbed, hurt, dismayed' and he wants to make the world a better place, not compete in the adolescent toned playground that has become tech blogging. Good for Scoble - of course, I am a little sad, cause I read him fairly regularly, but still, good for him.

The next example is an oldy but a goody. Back in April Steve Rubel of Edleman (much better blogger than I) twittered that he always throws away his free subscription to PC Mag, thus pissing off Jim Louderback and in the end, having to apologize on his own blog. Probably not the best week for Steve.

I think twitter is like the writing on the bathroom stall walls at a truck stop. And while it will probably be around for a while yet, I am fairly positive some other social media company will come along and throw a layer of kilz on the one sentence ramblings of twitter. And another one bites the dust.

UPDATE: Scoble's article in Fast Company this month discusses Twitter and how it is going to take over the world. Hmmm, how ironic.

UPDATE 2: Scoble is already blogging again. I guess he didn't mean it (which is a shame) - he better watch out or he will become the boy who cried wolf. And we all know what happened to him. People TOTALLY stopped reading his blog.

You got served, sucka...

I kind of need this little yellow dancing robot. I have a birthday coming up, and seriously, I would be pretty ecstatic if I had one of these guys sitting on my desk. Mostly because he is just so damn cute when he stops dancing and looks around for you. As Engadget noted, you have to stick it out to the end when he throws down with the other robots.

My husband and I are not an ‘official couple’…

I was just ranting to Cari about some of the tripe they show on the morning shows under the guise of news when an email pops up in my inbox from my sister pointing me to an article in the WSJ. Apparently, this is front page news for the WALL STREET JOURNAL (front page of the Pursuits section, but still). Are you freaking kidding me? First of all, if my iPod can cause a rift in my marriage, I am going to have to assume we were probably already headed down the divorce super highway, musical taste aside. Second, if all I needed was validation from a dime-a-dozen gmail account to feel I was ‘officially’ part of a couple, I could have saved my parents, his parents and ourselves a lot of money and time with the wedding planning. Seriously, you have to be kidding me. And how about the guy who gets up early in the morning to change the NetFlix queue in order to secretly get the movies he wants? How about you just say, ‘Wife, I appreciate you want to watch Sleepless in Seattle, and I am totally all for that, but do you think we could also add Attack of the Clones in there as well?’ – I mean, unless you are married to an absolute shrew (and a crazy OCD NetFlix freak) I would imagine this problem is solved. And it certainly doesn’t merit an article in the WSJ.

Not to get on a soap box about relationships, but seriously, no wonder the divorce rate is so high – if this kind of shit is really causing problems in marriages throughout the US, then I really don’t think gay marriage is what is threatening the ‘American Family’. Apparently, the real threat is not knowing how to build a new play list for your iTunes – WAY TO GO STEVE JOBS - Not only did you cripple Bluetooth on your jesus phone, but your interface is destroying marriages – how do you sleep at night?

to say this makes me sad is an understatement...

The New York Times unmasked Fake Steve Jobs. They suck.

“A blog is an organism – you created this thing, then you starved it, and so now it has turned against you…”

I like how I can relate anything back to my blog. For example, the above is a quote from something with just one little word change (whoever guesses correctly wins a prize). I feel like I have been starving my blog, and I really don’t want it to turn against me, but honestly, work has really been crazy. Anyway, I am a bit intrigued to see if anyone knows what the quote is from…I don’t know if it is a famous quote or if it is just something I picked up on. Also, I am mildly interested in finding out if I still have readers.