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As said this morning, we’re working on a trend. So without further ado:
- Mobile generosity: We’ve SMS’d our $10 to the Red Cross (text “Haiti” to 90999) and another $5 to Wyclef’s Yele Haiti foundation (Text “Yele” to 501501). We hope you have too. Yesterday’s Bits Blog reports the Red Cross raised $2 million in the first day. The Washington Post reports we’re now at $5.2 million. Keep it coming.
- How do we live, how do we die?: Graphical data makes our hearts beat faster. Use 27 United Nations statistical databases and 60 million records, wrap it up in easy-to-digest graphics and you got yourself honest to goodness infoporn of the best sort: something that pleases the eye and teaches you something.
- Shit + storm = Shitstorm: Google made big news the other day when it grew a pair and said no to Chinese censorship. Now VeriSign iDefense researchers indicate that it was the Chinese government, or its proxies, that were behind the cyberattacks that sparked Google’s ire. Worse: “If the report’s findings are correct, it suggests that the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies.”
- T Boone Gives Up on Texas Wind Power: T Boone Pickens never hid from the fact that he hoped to make a bundle off of promoting wind power. It was his way to do well by doing well. No more. The oil tycoon’s “interest in wind power has dropped off… because of a decrease in natural gas prices.”
- Wait, it hasn’t happened yet?: We kid, we kid. But Forrester research predicts that digital downloads will outsell physical media by 2012, Mayan end of the world cults be damned.
That be that. Catch you in the morning with a dose of the Morning Read.
