Cloudy Thinking

On a less gloomy note, Andy Serwer writes: this crisis could have a happy ending [via Fred Wilson]

Barry Ritholtz provides data on the housing collapse, credit crisis, economic recession and market crash. Unprecedented.

I emailed a Washington Post review of the Blackberry Storm. to a few friends. One replied: “My Storm demo will arrive within the next seven days. I will give you an update.

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Dell uses Twitter aggressively. Clever. [via Jeremiah Owang]

Mike Fruchter writes about 15 tools for your Twitter toolbox. The vibrant growth of the Twitter ecosystem is amazing..

PC Magazine will stop publishing it’s printed magazine and only be available online beginning in January 2009. Are print magazine doomed? My EE Times sure has gotten very skinny lately. [via Silicon Alley Insider]

Nate Elliott talks about the future of influence.

Joshua Kurlantzick writes “Crash and Burn: How the global economic crisis could bring down the Chinese government.”

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In-Stat says growth rate of mobile phone industry is slowing:

The economic crisis is still playing out, but all indications are that it will have an effect on the cellphone business worldwide, but mostly on North America and Europe. In-Stat believes that it will take until 2010 before cellphone sales return to their normal growth levels.

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Drake Bennett writes about what Depression 2009 may look like.

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If you like horses (and who doesn’t?) this video will delight and amaze.

Jon Udell investigated where the majority of U.S. oil comes from. It ain’t Saudia Arabia. [via Sarah Allen]