links for 2008-01-25

BusinessWeek.com Pushes into Aggregation, Video, Participation to Stand Out | PBS

Quote – One of BusinessWeek.com’s top goals was to create deeper, more meaningful engagement with more blogs, audio podcasts, video reports and aggregating outside content.

(tags: magazines media business+media)
Pregnancy magazines are plentiful | Celebrity Baby Blog

Observation: The day Jamie Lynn Spears shows up on the cover of one of these magazines is the day I start expecting any day the apocalypse.

(tags: magazines)
Mossberg reviews the Macbook Air | WSJ.com

Synopsis: It’s beautiful but compromised. My take: Do true road warriors lug around CDs anymore? Mr. Mossberg, meet Mr. Handbreak – http://handbrake.fr/

(tags: macbookair mac mossberg)
The Hit Song You Wrote | The Dilbert Blog

Scott Adams’ blog commenters provided nonsense lines that became lyrics of a really bad — but funny — song by a German band. My favorite line: Uh-oh she amazed me. With her love she tazed me.

(tags: humor community conversationalmedia)
Review of Appleâ€™s MacBook Air | Steven Levy, Newsweek.com

This review contains the most bizarre lede I’ve read in a while. However, it contains a bit of information that allows me to strike-thru rumor #11 of my Apple rumors – http://tinyurl.com/2oemqm

(tags: mac apple macbookair)

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http://www.paidcontent.org Staci D. Kramer

do real road warriors rely on wifi?
Rex Hammock

Not me: I rely on a USB 3G modem from AT&T. Even if Apple offered an “internal” one, I’d opt for the USB one as we can swap it around the office. Saves on greedy hotel wi-fi charges.
http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/ Aaron Pressman

Two quick links on Macbook Air which add to the “bum me out” factor:

1. A lot of USB 3G modems don’t seem to fit, according to Ryan Block (though there’s reference to some kind of extension cord dongle in the comments).
http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/adding-insult-to-injury-usb-3g-modems-wont-fit-in-the-macbo/

2. It’s hard to get yourself down to 80 GB of digital stuff, as Jason O’Grady describes.
http://www.macworld.com/article/131801/2008/01/macbook_air_austerity.html
(I still don’t get why Apple didn’t make the MBA three millimeters thicker to fit double the hard drive in there: http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=238)