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title: "News Posts versus Thought Posts"
date: 2007-09-27
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# News Posts versus Thought Posts
- Google launched its presentations tool

- WordPress 2.3 was released, offering tagging

- Yahoo bought Zimbra for $350 million

- Adobe announced a tech comm suite of RH, FM, Capt., Flash, and Acrob.

- AuthorIt released a new version (not sure what it offers)

- The One Child Per Laptop (OCPL) program is underway

- The Tech Crunch conference announced tons of new products

- Sketchcast was released, and Ideablob, and Feedhub

- Movable Type 4.0 was released with some degree of open sourceness

- Microsoft is buying stake in Facebook

- Halo 3 was released

If you blink for a week, you miss a thousand developments. Despite all this news, which I glance at, sift through, or scroll down in my feedreader as I'm riding in a van at 5 a.m., I'm starting to look more for the non-newsy posts, the opinionated ones. We can only drink so much from the firehose of information before it turns us into information-downloading robots. We need analysts to opinionate. We need real people to emote, take sides. Blog posts that merely deliver facts, news, tips, or information bore me.