Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 12th: Two Current TV Journalists Sentence to 12 Years in North Korean Labor Camp – So the short story is this: "Two journalists weaken U.S.", but that's hardly news is it? The vast preponderance of so-called journalists today is to pick at [...]

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Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 10th through June 11th: Trillian Astra Enters Public Beta: Does Anyone Still Care? – I keep meaning to upgrade my Trillian client, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. Not Everyone is Excited About Facebook Vanity URLs – Interesting and a big [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 8th: Twitter "Not Playing Ball" but Will Experiment With Verified Accounts – hmmm… online identity service anyone? Yeah, it would need a nice long list of identity and security features to be really viable, but I have the list and the technologies [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 5th: Information Card Specification Standards Approval Vote – Could the process to get us strong, usable authenticaiton and SSO functionality for the web take any longer? Sheesh! I'm tired of the toy projects. Someone build something robust, all-encompassing and secure… NOW! (P.S. [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 4th: Time Puts Twitter on Cover, at Vanguard of American Economy (Ryan Tate/Valleywag – Gawker) – Hugely LOLing right now. Figures the moronic marxists at Time would think a company with lots of buzz and no business model in sight is at [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 3rd: Arming the Boston Police with Assault Rifles – yep, would be a much better expenditure to spend the money as a subsidy for private citizens to arm up. No, seriously. Hands-on with Wave: Weird and quite wonderful (Rafe Needleman/CNET News) – [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 2nd: Sucks to Be Nintendo… – Come one everyone, let's show some proper levels of skepticism out there please? Everything I've seen on this is clearly emblazoned with some such disclaimer, "Vision presentation only, actual functions and features may differ". Sure, this [...]

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Things I read today that I found interesting and worthy of comment June 1st: Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave (Chris Dannen/Fast Company) – I know what he means by all these silo'd social nets that need interconnected, but the promise I see in Wave is that it would replace all those disparate [...]

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