During World War II British bomber designers studied returning airplanes for where to place extra armour. They mistakenly placed the armour over the areas most hit by bullets. This from the planes that returned. The planes that didn’t return didn’t get studied. This is survivor bias and it is rife in business circles. §

The 3 key parts of news stories we don’t get. The longstanding facts. How we know what we know. What we don’t know. §

Dare Obasanjo gets it right about RSS. It is the interface, the readers, that are broken, not RSS. One click follow is a must. River of news is a must. §

More “surfacing existing human practice” in Twitter is 40% babble. §

Y Combinator is issuing Request For Startups. Partial ideas that you can pitch on and receive funding. §

WordPress.com users can now get their links shortened via WP.me. Nice for blogs hosted on WordPress.com, helps to stop link-rot (as the URL shortener is tied to the content website.) §

When upgrading to Mac OS X Snow Leopard be careful you don’t require one of these applications which either do not yet work or can have problems under Snow Leopard. Adobe Elements is one. §

Four researched business models for news. Hyperlocal, Ecosystem Framework, New News Organization and Not-for-Profit News Organization. §

Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goddess; contrive day’s business and take the resolution of the day; prosecute the present study; and breakfast. §

Typically I avoid web awards like I avoid swine-flu. The .net awards though are endorsed by Zeldman and the list of entries are truly representative of the best of the web. This is no Webby Awards shit. §