"This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It’s not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it’s not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It’s that we’re collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, simply, data." "Losing data is not the same as forgetting. It happens all at once, not gradually or imperceptibly, so it feels less like an unburdening than like a mugging."

Nokia N9 (and Lumia, although that's not the real focus) reviewed by Dan Hill in Domus. It's a long read and occasionally there's the restatement of a point, but it's definitely worth the time, and it makes me want to actually play with one. There's also some good shots over the bow of Apple's interface design. Perhaps the best short summary is one of the subheadings: "The N9 as sketch of an alternative future".

Tim O'Reilly on presence, the address book, phones, and third-party iPhone development. Look out for Mark Pilgrim's comment.

Text "track subject" to Twitter and you'll get messages from anyone (public?) mentioning subject. Nice, but why's it SMS only? And what if you wanted to start a message "track"? I bet people mistwitter commands, too.