AOL and Time Warner are getting divorced after a rather muddled marriage. Amazing how little I care either way. §

Honestly, I think we should pay for content, online and offline. Ads are part of it but not the whole story. What I don’t want to see is pay-walls, search engine blocking or attempts to stop me reading the content I want to pay for in the way I want to read it; aggregated. NYT articles next to WSJ articles next to Economist pieces next to O’Reilly Radar posts next to BoingBoing frippery. I pay, I choose. Give me the choice fellas. §

While this report is dubious at best the sentiment does seem right; OpenSocial has not changed the world or even my backyard. My main gripe is that the sites that support OpenSocial do it as an afterthought, tacking on OpenSocial support and making it hard for users to get any benefits. §

The Palm Pre will sync with iTunes. iTunes thinks it is just an iPod/iPhone. Good move Palm, though no doubt Apple will update iTunes regularly to block access and Palm will have to keep resources on it. §

I tabbed about 5 times between apps and websites while reading The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction – Opposable Planets. Oooh, shiny. §

Putting Sevens Rugby in the Olympics is all about money it seems. It might help grassroots development of the game in the States but frankly I think it will be a mistake for current Sevens fans. I watch two events at the Olympics; the opening and the closing ceremonies. The only other events I read about are the 100m sprint and maybe a bit of javelin in the vain hope someone catches one in the kisser (just kidding.) Other sports at the Olympics are a pale shadow of their real-world selves. Rugby players want world cup medals, not Olympic gold medals. §

Heard of OpenX? It serves 300 billion ads a month to 38,000 publishers and their 150,000 Web sites. It just raised $10 million. If you have a website and want to serve ads don’t automatically pick Google, try OpenX. I like their “open farmers market” approach to ads. §

The Tucson Citizen is closing down. In its place will be a Tucson citizen powered online newspaper, gathering Tucson bloggers under the Tucson Citizen banner. I hope it works, we need this kind of model to work. §

MuckRack is an interesting view on Twitter. It shows you which journalists are using Twitter, what they are saying and, very usefully, what links they are posting. You can view by source (Wired, AP, NYT, Ars etc.) too. §

Spotify coming to Google Android. Mobile Spotify is something I want, but for iPhone too please. §