Krishna Guha writes: Paulson rues shortage of firepower as battle raged. The world’s financial system was close to potential collapse three times this year.Here’s hoping for a MUCH better 2009.
Rex Sorgatz put together 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008. He has good taste. [via Fred Wilson].
Instead of buying an iPhone, I’m seriously thinking about a two-device alternative: 1) a netbook, such as the Dell Mini 9, plus 2) the Kodak/Motorola ZN5 camera that’s also a mobile phone.
A saavy techie friend (an Nokia 800 early adopter) writes: “I just picked up a Dell Mini 9, my current favorite in the netbook class for these reasons:”
“Cassandra Does Tokyo” (a new blog in my Google reader) has a post If You Can’t Tell Who The Sucker Is…. that I deem to be REQUIRED reading. Go. Read it. Now.
ABC News put together a list of reliable health resources on the web. Useful. [via MostEmailedNews]
Jeff Clark’s TwitterVenn constructs Venn diagrams based on words that appear in the Twitter data stream. Fun stuff! [via The Guardian]
Scott Reynolds Nelson says the Panic of 1873 “the real Great Depression” is a better comparison to today’s problems than the depression of 1929. Good reading, if also long.
This long and detailed slide show from T2 Partners gives an overview of housing/credit crisis and why there’s more pain to come. It’s not pretty. (PDF format)
“… the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has been tracking wireless use in semiannual surveys. The figures from the first half of 2008 are in, and they show 17.5 percent, or more than one in six, U.S. households have cut the cord, up from 13.6 percent a year earlier.” [via Good Morning Silicon Valley]
Linton Weeks of NPR shares a list of what’s in and what’s out (December 2008 edition). Funny stuff.
Matt Aimonetti talks about Merb, a Ruby framework (and alternative to Rails) used to build web applications and services. Article has an excellent list of Ruby and Merb resources.