Awhile back I blogged about Blackboard, and how they filed for a pretty obvious patent - e-learning - and were granted it.  Then they turned around and sued another e-learning company. 

The patent is pretty bogus, so I am glad to see a group challenging it.

Apparently, I abandoned the Google Reader for My Yahoo, only a couple of weeks before their change.  The interface has been changed for a month or two now.

That's okay, because that gave them time to deal with bugs and such.  But I must say, the new interface is great.  Easy to mark things as read.  One line previews, or, larger previews.  Easy scrolls to next messages.  Easy to get to the various tags I've added.  More reliable speed.  Easy to tag, email, or share with others.

Very, very nice. 

I've switched again!

Just commented on a Blogger site - I have a "blogger account", that I normally use for commenting - but I notice the "nom de plume" that I use, was changed. 

Going to blogger, I find that I am logged in with my gmail account.

I actually preferred having them separate - so I'll have to see how to have both. 

Still, interesting to continually see this progression of Google features.

I've been using the My Yahoo page as my reader, over the last couple of months - having the ability to quickly scan entries, when you subscribe to as many sites as I do, becomes a necessity - so this morning I checked my Google Reader, to discover that the application has been completely redesigned.

And, from the look of it - very well designed!  Both quick check, one line, to scrolling the entire list, to quick ways to tag entries - very very nice.

I might have more feedback later, but fyi!

Just had a co-worker come up to me with their new IPod Shuffle.

Man, is this thing little thing amazing.

Small, light as a pack of matches (and a bit smaller than a pack of matches), clean lines, easy clip - and I don't know if this is feminine to say but - it's cute as all hell!

I have a "larger" IPod, and more expensive - but I'm wishing for this small little thing!

Has anyone bought this?  Is it as great to use in the gym as I think it is?

Man, these guys just keep improving Zaadz.  And quickly too.

There really isn't a more intelligent social networking, web 2.0 site out there.

From the wisdom of crowds for books, from the pictures, from the backend mail, from the ideas and thoughts wisdom of crowds implementation, to the blogs and the feeds, to the reviews and recommendations, events, and services -

It really is coming together in a way that I've been imagining "a site having", over the last 2 years. 

Kudos, brothers and sisters, kudos!