Links for January 11th

These are my delicious links for January 11th from 08:06 to 22:57:

• UNCUT: Barkley, Wife at Their Gated House -

• From: Jerry YangSteve. Why do you keep ignoring my Facebook... - From: Rod Blagojevich How do you delete email that’s already been sent?

  From: Barack Obama AirforceOne needs an XBOX. Hint, Hint.

• Social Media: On the lighter side at CES

• New Media Douchebags Explained - How to blog, Twitter, podcast, poke, write on Facebook walls and become a new media douchebag. More at

  New Media Douchebags Explained

• New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch - New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch: The Global Post is a new newswire-like service for world news, focuses on new media and beat reporting, the project has exciting implications because it employs a freemium business model, along with…

• Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser - Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser: Are you kidding me!? I don’t know if I’m more embarrassed by the companies that will do anything to make a buck or by the inability of our government to NOT SELL WEAPONS TO THE EMENY.

• Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment - Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment: Do bloggers just opine while reporters do ‘journalism?’ The comments are particularly interesting, but present the same problem blogs do: They are a raw source of material — a source — that require a…

• "You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day. Every hour you have 10 minutes..." - ““You are one of the millions of people who sit at a computer all day. Every hour you have 10 minutes where you’re not doing anything productive at work, and you can’t look at porn. So you make a comment and fulfill this desire to show yourself off as a smarty-pants.””

• —Marshall Poe, a professor of history and new media at the University of Iowa, who has studied Internet communities. All-Stars of the Clever Riposte - New York Times

• "People are doing it [commenting on blogs] for the same reason another generation of people called in..." - ““People are doing it [commenting on blogs] for the same reason another generation of people called in on talk radio.””

• —Shel Israel, a social media consultant and a columnist for Blogger & Podcaster magazine All-Stars of the Clever Riposte - New York Times

• Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales - Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales:

  Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1 - The Richter Scales

• Crunchies 2008 - The Richter Scales - Crunchies 2008 - The Richter Scales The Richter Scales perform their new song at The Crunchies 2008.

  Crunchies 2008 - The Richter Scales

• Skirting Laws, Iran Buys Bomb Parts From US Firms - World news | Newser - Are you kidding me!? I don't know if I'm more embarrassed by the companies that will do anything to make a buck or by the inability of our government to NOT SELL WEAPONS TO THE EMENY.

• Avoiding The Big Yellow Taxi Moment - Do bloggers just opine while reporters do 'journalism?' The comments are particularly interesting, but present the same problem blogs do: They are a raw source of material — a source — that require a curator (pro. journalist) to make readable for the average person.

• New Web-based news agency going live on Monday - AFP-MediaWatch - The Global Post is a new newswire-like service for world news, focuses on new media and beat reporting, the project has exciting implications because it employs a freemium business model, along with content sharing.