• How your creepy ex-co-workers will kill Facebook | InformationWeek
  Cory Doctorow paints a picture of Facebook’s future that looks a lot like social networking’s history. FB fan-boys are sure to meltdown over this one.
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks)
• Jackson Five ‘could tour in 2008′ | BBC
  Quote- “We owe that to the fans.” Observation: Speaking for the fans, let me respond: Really, guys, you don’t owe us anything. Honest. Let’s just call it even and ya’ll stay at home. Please. Like forever.
  (tags: weird)
• NYTimes blogger ‘happily’ blogs Wall Street Journal correction | DealBook
  NYT DealBook’s Jenny Anderson happily reports that Merrill Lynch CEO “happily tells” his employees that the Wall Street Journal issued a correction of a page 1 negative story about the firm.
  (tags: newspapers)
• Memo to Amazon.com: Open the Kindle | Harvard Business Online’s Conversation Starter
  Quote from David Weinberger = Amazon’s Kindle e-book may turn out to be a textbook. A textbook example, that is, of how the strengths of closed platforms can quickly turn into a weakness.
  (tags: amazon ebook kindle)
• MIT Lecture Browser
  Candidate for coolest thing ever. It searches all lectures for your query, indicates exactly at what point the word occurs in video, then plays it while a transcript appears below. Geez. (via: researchbuzz.org)
  (tags: search video amazing)

Okay, it’s already established that I’m a Google Maps “My Maps” fan-boy. For example, here is the first “My Map” I created, a trail map of a Greenway near my home. Today, the Google Maps team announced they’ve added a collaborative feature to My Maps. I’m trying out the new feature on the map embedded below. If you’d like to add something to the map, click here and see what you can do. I believe you have to have a Google ID and be logged-in to edit it. I think I set it where anyone can edit it — however that’s one of the things I’m testing.

I’ve replaced the map I originally embedded below with a community map of East Nashville that Jackson Miller started. It’s not only a cool way to see what a collaborative map can be, it is also something that could be helpful to lots of people. Cool stuff, Jackson.

As I maintain dual citizenship in both Magazineland and Internetopolis, I’m often asked what magazines must do to survive in an online era. Jason Tanz, business editor of Wired magazine, has a great answer to that question in this interview on PRWeek.com.

Quote:

“The Internet can do a lot of things really great, so focus your magazine on the things the Internet can’t do really great.”

Tanz says such things are “long stories, nice paper and beautiful layouts,” however, I disagree with Tanz on one thing: Long stories work on the web.

Here’s how I’d put it: A great magazine is something to be experienced and savored. A well designed and edited magazine is the wine of media. The web is about instantaneous and ubiquitous information, connections and transactions. It’s like the central nervous system of media. To live, you must have a central nervous system. But to live, you should experience great wine.

(Tanz quote via: Martin Stabe)