I started this blog on a Sunday, so the plan is to have weekly story updates every Sunday, unfortunately I was at a wedding all day last Sunday so couldn’t get away to write, so here is the weekly story update, in the future it will come on Sundays(these are the only stories that have updated information).

Review: Ask 500 People: Ask 500 People has been getting a bit more traffic since my blog post with around 100 people on the site as registered users and guests at any given time. The site keeps you logged in, so if you just leave it sitting on on your computer you will still show as online(which is what I do most of the time), so this number could be inflated, but its growth for sure. It has seemed to experience its fair share of growing pains, suffering downtime several times during the week, and the occasional other bug, but the team seems very responsive and hopefully they’ll be getting it sorted out soon.

Printing Your Own Newspaper: Since I wrote the blog post about Google versus FeedJournal, the founder of the program has also written about it, you can find his post here. One of the responders to his blog entry made note of an article written in 1995 entitled “An Interactive, Personalized, Newspaper on the WWW” whose abstract is available here. The founder of FeedJournal has been very responsive, much as the founders of Ask500People inviting me to the private alpha/beta of the reader, and I look forward to blogging about that in the future.

Charlie Wilson’s War: Since I wrote the post people have told me they’ve seen the trailer, it looked about right based on the book, so hopefully it will be a good movie and raise awareness about this part of history. I was listening to my XM last night and stumbled upon a commentary about the decline of box office appeal of war movies. Now, most of the commentary on this issue has been about the box office success of movies about the Iraq War(because people see enough about it on TV in general) and I haven’t seen any statistics on movies about wars in general, so I hope that Charlie Wilson’s War doesn’t suffer the same fate as all these movies about Iraq.

Amazon Kindle: The Kindle sold out in five and a half hours. Of course, as many have stated, this means nothing because Amazon won’t release numbers, for all we know they had something ridiculously low like 100 in stock at the time of release. The fact that they will be restocked on the 29th probably means they are releasing them in a trickle to build hype instead of actually needing that week to create and ship more.

Facebook Drops the ‘is’: Facebook recently announced they would be dropping the ‘is’ and for a time they did, for a very brief time. For some reason it is still there and no new news of it has been reported in several days.

Stem Cell War: The New York Times has a new article today about the future of research in a environment that contains ready access to stem cells. Its worth a read.

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