The power of Twitter as demonstrated by a broken washing machine and an irate mother. §

d30 is magic. §

This guy wants to be that flame thrower kid from X-Men. §

This is probably the most interesting thing you’ll ever read about donkeys. §

Why Craigslist is such a mess. An interesting read, well done Wired. ‘The axioms of this worldview are easy to state. “People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day,” Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure allowing them to get together and work things out for themselves. Any additional features are almost certainly superfluous and could even be damaging.’

Google Maps for Mobile can send “anonymous” movement data back to Google allowing them to plot traffic jams, free roads, alternate routes etc. over Google Maps. Wonderful. But frustratingly it doesn’t work on the iPhone. More and more my iPhone feels like a mute in a crowded room. §

Reality intercedes at Wikipedia. In principal I don’t like it one bit. However, there will be “thousands” of editors and possibly this can grow as people gain kudos. Could this be a trust metric to be used on other sites? Or will Wikipedia become a large, traditional encyclopedia run by an elite and not the summation of human knowledge we wanted. §

“TechCrunch50 was starting to feel like the aftermath of an awkward date… …A couple of mornings I sent myself an email just to make sure my Swacle email account didn’t crash overnight. Suddenly it was the ‘80s again and I was 15″ Story of a Techcrunch50 application. §

Text is UI. Honing a Twitter message to best effect. §

I still have many questions about the Nokia N900 but I am liking what I am seeing so far. §