a review of my dream phone. it keeps selling out in what feels like a matter of seconds. probably because you can buy it unlocked without a contract straight from google, and avoid the evil canadian phone companies! i'm very excited for this next step in mobile phones as it should help alleviate the need to sell your soul to rogers every time you need/want a new phone

Mr. Ignatieff is so smart and eloquent about the continuing political decline in North America. Interesting in this article is the stress placed on dialogue and compromise between elected officials (regardless of party associations) as essential to the democratic process.

Gawker's Adrian Chen tracks down the identity of reddit.com's violentacrez. I'd never heard of this person, but the headline grabbed my attention. The article has some really great insight into how reddit is run and the role of moderators on the sites boards. Also an interesting read in regards to the politics of online identity protection and the role of anonymity in online communications.

How was this affect how you get your news?

The author makes an interesting argument about how cellphone use and constant data connection has become "domesticated" in the last five years. He makes a strong case for being cut off every once and awhile.

Great article about a relatively new communications strategy/software to reach out to customers to raise start up capital.

Just in case you haven't seen this- google docs is now google drive. I'm an avid user of google docs and now there is an app that allows it to function what I imagine dropbox is like. It allows you to drop files into the app on your computer and access them anywhere through google docs.