• Open letter to Mark Zukerberg | Marc’s Voice
  Dave Winer quote (from comments) - Become the API the Internet never had — identity. Then rename the company to HolyGrailBook and change MZ’s title to The Pope of the Internet.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks)
• Last in first out | Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab
  Quote - NBC’s decision to dump iTunes will have the same success Times Select did, by proving that fighting RSS is like quitting caffeine.
  (tags: RSS)
• Facebook suicide: the end of a virtual life | Times Online
  From the it sounds like a trend, so let’s do a trend story department: people are shutting down their Facebook account. No stats or research to back it up, only some examples strung together.
  (tags: facebook socialmedia)

I participated on a panel today at Vanderbilt Law School with students way smarter than me. Fortunately, I understood most of the questions, except the one about Arcade Fire and LCD Soudsystem appearing live last night at the Hollywood Bowl. Actually, I understood the question, I just had no idea who Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem are. I do now.

Speaking of live music, tonight I’ll be enjoying a sold-out Station Inn performance by the Punch Brothers. I’m sure I’ll be blogging about it tomorrow. Tune in.

Some people have sent me caps for the new rexblog cap-per-post program. I’ve created the rexblog.com/caps page until I figure out what the rexblog cap-per-post program acutally is beyond a swipe at pay-per-post schemes. Also, I’ve decided to change out my photo on the right-hand column when I add a new cap instead of actually posting them in the blog-post stream.

My quote of the day is from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch from a news item about a startup called Mixx. “And since they are located well outside of Silicon Valley, in Virginia, they’ve been able to stay below the radar.”

Northern Virginia is such the back-water for technology companies. ; )