Once again, Adam does a fantastic job of talking nerdy, this time with a breakdown of the MobileMe branding. For all the cyberchatter, there are so few people who talk about technology in a big picture way with this kind of clarity, bloggers, take note.

"Even though we are making the right decision to lower the price of iPhone, and even though the technology road is bumpy, we need to do a better job taking care of our early iPhone customers as we aggressively go after new ones with a lower price."

I sort of love that they're recycling any old mobile phone, a rather brilliant bit of iPhone marketing and some good will, to boot.

Money quote: "The best publications have always been dialogs between great writers, passionate readers, and, yes, advertisers." Ah, yes, payola is just part of the conversation!

I seriously thought this was a joke

Put your cause on a shirt, have folks txt you. I'm thinking something along the lines of "ask me out on a date"

Since most media organizations have rules around accepting gifts from those looking to curry favor, Hollywood has aimed its spin zone at bloggers. This should be fun to watch.

I happen to know that they've not just including photobloggers. Innerestin'

Everybody now!

WSJ profile of the MSNBC.com ad campaign

Seriously, just skip to the seven minute mark, it's absolutely stunning

"This is the most frustrating thing about the practice of giving bloggers free stuff: it pisses in the well, reducing the credibility of all blogs." Joel has some great points here that will continue to be brought up as bloggers continue to gain influence

"Iconistan" - clever

Duh, but who signs up for email newsletters any more?

Pretty soon the "I, for one, welcom our new Google overlord" jokes aren't going to be funny. Not. One. Bit.

Google putting adwords in newspapers - seems logical, but also anachronistically hilarious

An insider look behind the Apple keynotes

This is quite excellent and rightfully puts in their place all of the overhyped Christmas warriors selling not much more than anti-semitism and misplaced discontent. "Christmas is the big retail season. What Fox [News] retails is resentment."

HA! These guys duped every major news outlet on the web!

You choose how much free service you want in return for last month's service interruptions - though, I can't seem to find this for our corporate account...

Looks like Universal went ape shit with the merchandising. BWA HA! HA! ha. sorry. But seriously, a Kong edition Touareg?

So this is what they did with Urchin...

Help name your startup

Bulk email made dead simple with a brilliant pricing model

Apple will take your Mac mini back after 30 days if you don't love it

The hell happened to "do no evil?"

Hell hath no fury like geeks scorned. Morons.

Talk about all the kewl, innovative crap you do with your Dell for a chance to meet Billg. Faan-tastic.

Fast Company profiles Malcom Gladwell