Magazines and the Long Tail: Folio: Magazine landed in my inbox today and the cover story is an interview with Chris Anderson, who when not at his day job as editor of Wired Magazine is a best-selling author and part-time blogger. (Shameless disclosure: I make a cameo appearance in the interview’s intro.)

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The iPod inVisa: First previewed last year by Steve Jobs on Saturday Night Live, the iPod iNvisa was introduced today.

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All the Apple rumors you’ll ever need - update #1: Recently, I posted a list of Apple rumors that should last you a while. Today a few of those rumors turned into announcements (via engadget), so here’s a strike through version of the list. When I made up the list last week, I said they were in no particular order, so I got especially lucky.

1. Movies via the iTunes store.
2. A “Video Airport Express” that allows you to stream video from your computer wirelessly to your TV.
(Note: It won’t come out until next year, but was “previewed” today with the code name iTV.)
3. A device that is sort of like an 8″x10″ iPod that does everything a computer does but it won’t be called a tablet computer or an iPod.
4. An iSight/iChat hardware-software combo that works on Windows machines (like when the iPod became available for Windows).
5. Wireless iPod.
6. Wireless iSight (hardware).
7. A wide range of wireless iSight cameras that allow you to automatically beam video to your iPod memory, computer or to stream live online — all with drop-dead simplicity.
8. Devices you place on shelves and hang on walls at home to replace anything you might think of as a “home entertainment center.” (Like this without “the computer.”)
9. Something like the following: A Mighty Mouse-like device that is the computer and works wirelessly with a tiny laser projector or some glasses/earphone device.
10. Newer and newer computers for designers and engineers and video/audio creators and editors and servers that are faster and faster and cheaper and cheaper.
11. A laptop computer that won’t burn a hole in your lap.
12. That he is retiring.
13. That in honor of his retirement, Apple is coming out with a flying car.
14. That they’re coming out with a computer that really doesn’t crash.

As always, there was no announcement of an iPhone. And I still haven’t figured out why there should ever be one.

My prediction for a massive best-seller: the 1GB Shuffle for $79. But didn’t I see that announced on Saturday Night Live last year?

I promise, I won’t: Even though I will finally be able to set up an account on Facebook, I have promised the 16-year-old that I won’t. However, there is some blackmail involved.

By the way, I think this is a big mistake by Facebook.

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The Tennessean adds comments: I just noticed that the always cutting-edge Tennessean.com has added a radical new feature to its site that, get this, allows someone to add a “comment” at the bottom of an article. It is tied in with a forum platform that requires registration. It’s nice to see the Tennessean limping towards the future, however, I’m still wondering why they call this a blog.

Good morning, Apple cultists: The Apple iTunes store is off-line this morning, obviously being retooled for the big announcement at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. As it is game day, I have come out of my rumor fast and have temporarily turned back on the RSS feeds on my newsreader that are related to Apple. (They will be shut off again by tomorrow.) For any of you who are not obsessed with tracking the rumors, the consensus predictions for the day include:

Rumor range: One rumor school suggests only movies from Disney will be available. Another rumor suggests “iTunes” will be renamed “Showtime” (not likely, if you ask me.)

Rumor range: It’s an easy bet to guess there will be some cool iPod upgrades and for years, the iPod cell phone has been perpetually rumored. My take on this worn-out rumor: If Steve Jobs announces something that will be like the Dick Tracy watch — a hand held video phone — using an embedded iSight camera for real-time video conferencing, I may be impressed. Otherwise, what took them so long?

Here is ‘The Unofficial Apple Weblog’s list of predicted announcements.

After the big event, I will repost my list of perpetual Apple rumors with a strike-through of any that get resolved today.

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