Um, I can't believe these e-cards are for real. Still, all in all, not a bad idea...

Quoted: Got laid. Was happy. Got tested. Wasn't healthy. Better get your own Chlamydia checkup soon.

Fascinating stuff...

Quoted: The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.

Scrabulous is my life. Ha.

Quoted: The companies that own the rights to the Scrabble board game say Scrabulous, a popular online knockoff, is piracy.

Really fascinating article from Slate that questions the idea of Web democracy through user-generated content sites like Wikipedia and Digg. The author raises some great points. Tal, this reminds me of the book you edited!

Quoted: Social-media sites like Wikipedia and Digg are celebrated as shining examples of Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users who all act as writers, editors, and voters. In reality, a small number of people are running the show. According to researchers in Palo Alto, 1 percent of Wikipedia users are responsible for about half of the site's edits.

I have a minor Scrabble obsession.

Quoted: Scrabulous, a Scrabble-like application that lets Facebook members play one another online, has been experiencing booming popularity.

Despite the fact that Yahoo! Answers has been more successful than Google's similar venture, this article refers to it as "every middle-school teacher's worst nightmare about the Web." Apparently the factual errors are egregious...

Quoted: The blockbuster success of Yahoo! Answers is surprising once you spend a few days using the site. While Answers is a valuable window into how people look for information online, it looks like a complete disaster as a traditional reference tool.

Fascinating piece about how e-mail is becoming obsolete (although not in my world - I check it obsessively). Apparently, 50% of teen Internet users prefer IM over e-mail and Web sites like Facebook are now the communication hubs.

Quoted: Those of us older than 25 can't imagine a life without e-mail. For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it.

Happy birthday to my fellow Virgo, digital smiley face!

Quoted: Twenty-five years ago, a Carnegie Mellon University professor was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen  and a parenthesis as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.