What does it mean that Yahoo was willing to pay $3.5 billion for GeoCities, but not $3 billion a few years later for Google?

– Owen Thomas, “The Billion-Dollar Blackhole of Social Media”

We need to make the social norms clear: Twitter is where you talk about the consistency of your oatmeal. E-mail is for when you are running late for a meeting.

-Saul Hansen,  What Annoys Me About Twitter – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.

Kurt Cobain wouldn’t have killed himself if he had the sense of community that comes with joining a social network.

- Hipster Runoff: Nirvana wasn’t ‘that good’ nor were they very ‘influential.’.

iPods, First Sale, President Obama, and the Queen of England

The EFF’s Fred von Lohmann notes that the president’s gift of an iPod filled with showtunes to the Queen of England may have violated copyright laws.

Tweets are the blog posts you thought about writing, but didn’t feel they had enough substance

-Mark Cuban, Some Twitter Thoughts