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BIMD: Back in my day ROFLACGU: Rolling on the floor laughing and can't get up ML2N?: Matlock tonight? OMGWTF: Oh my. Gee whiz. Tutti-frutti. MBDC: My bad. Damn cataracts. WIOLATS: Wore it out like a turn signal. GTALNINFTCW: Gee, thanks a lot, now I'll never finish that crossword.

Paul notes that the Guardian uses tools like del.icio.us, Google gadgets, Yahoo Pipes, and others to bring more content to their readers, and do so without having to develop their own software. None of them owned or built by the Guardian. But all of them do the job required, and well - for nothing. Culturally, this is a hard thing for many news organisations to do (”But we can’t control it!”), but increasingly, it’s something they’re learning tends to work better than unwieldy bespoke software. It’s cheaper - and importantly in these times, much, much quicker.

lawyers all too often make business decisions based on what can be done legally, rather than what makes the most business sense, those options are all too rarely considered. In the past, there was often little that could be done for those impacted by such decisions. These days, however, things are quite different. Pissing off a large group of people, even if you have the legal right to do so, can often be a disastrous business move.

The 2008 edition of the WKCI compares 145 regions across 19 knowledge economy benchmarks (full data for all indicators across each of the 19 benchmarks is contained in the accompanying Excel spreadsheets). This represents an increase of twenty regions compared to the last edition in 2005: nine from Europe, eight from North America, and three from Asia Pacific. These new regions were selected on the basis of a survey of a wide range of regions appearing to be become more internationally competitive. This year’s report also contains a special chapter on economic development in the three leading Chinese regions.

It's the information and email overload studies that trip my BS detector the most. While I agree that an overstuffed inbox and constant email monitoring can kill your day, this $700 billion a year cost to the American economy makes me raise one eyebrow high in doubt. Did researchers factor in how much time email actually saves people who use it?

The Android software looks, feels and works a lot like the iPhone’s. Not as consistent or as attractive, but smartly designed and, for version 1.0, surprisingly complete. In any case, it’s polished enough to give Windows Mobile an inferiority complex the size of Australia; let’s hope Microsoft has a good therapist.

some companies have done this really well by having a person who's sort of their advocate on Facebook or LinkedIn. It's someone who really gets how the medium works, knows how to engage with people, and most importantly, comes across as a real person.

A Finnish Internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start a mass movement toward electric cars. The plan is to encourage the conversion of used gasoline-powered cars to run on electricity, with the first rollout due this year. The Finnish-language forum, eCars - Now!, claims to be first of its kind in the world, and is working in the tradition of the open source projects used in information technology -- like the Linux computer operating system, which was also started by a Finn.