Cloudy Thinking

Screentoaster captures screencasts via the web. Very cool.

“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.” –Peter Ustinov [via Andrew Graham]

Today I learned Karl Rove (the brains behind George W Bush) is using Twitter, so I (naturally) followed him. That was not in vain, as you’ll see from this e-mail message from Twitter:

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Judi Sohn asks “When did Facebook get mainstream?”

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Palm has introduced WebOS along with its sleek new Pre handset. Based on early reports, there’s a lot to like about WebOS. Case in point, unlike the iPhone, WebOS supports multitasking. How refreshing.

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Michael Sippey writes about a “first world problem” (defined below) against which all other first world problems must be judged.

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Dan Schawbel writes 7 Secrets to Getting Your Next Job Using Social Media. Pretty good advice. [via Bert Decker]

The Twitter bot lowflyingrocks reports on any near earth object that passes within 0.2AU of earth. For example:

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Big Bucks (read billions of dollars) will soon flow into US Broadband Infrastructure.

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Secunia Personal Security Inspector is a FREE program that scans your PC and reports programs you need to update because of security issues.

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The Aljazeera War on Gaza site shows reported incidents in Gaza using Microsoft Virtual Earth. Reports can be submitted by SMS, Twitter or on the web. Crowdsourcing war reporting? Makes sense. [via Rudy De Waele]

Charlie O’Donnell put together a video pastiche consiting of seven second clips showing famous (more or less) people sharing their 2009 tech/web predictions.

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