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  1. RexBlog: Are we going to see the birth of the dejazine-app: Defunct magazines coming back as iPad apps? http://re-x.me/pj
  2. "70% of 2010 college freshmen entering w/ Macs, up 10-15% from last year." If true, a dazzling marketshare http://re-x.me/pi [link: @gruber]
  3. @henshaw No. I'm still at the office so I'm using my G4 Cube. ; )
  4. Me too. [RT @jeffjarvis] Three people I respect now head mag cos: Carey-Hearst, Sauerberg-Condé, Griffin-Time Inc. Good luck, all.
  5. Collaborating on a knol about Google Wave with an Orkut friend I first met via Dodge Ball.
  6. I can think of some bloggers who'd prefer we not go back & read their hyperventilated posts when Google Wave was launched. http://re-x.me/ph
  7. [RT @TechCrunch http://tcrn.ch/daPhf0] Google buys Slide for $182 million. Sidenote: CEO Max Levchin also chairs Yelp board, founded Paypal.
  8. Print magazines are dead at Time Inc. (if you don't count the $900 million in revenue last quarter). http://re-x.me/pf
  9. You remember those pundits who said the iPad was going to be a "consumption" device, not a creation one: Show them this: http://re-x.me/pe
  10. Nice to know the talent (and art) of speech writing still exists. They dont get much better than Bloomberg's yesterday. http://re-x.me/pd
  11. Anthologize [http://anthologize.org] is a free, open-source, WP 3.0 plugin for converting posts to ebook. [via@RWW http://bit.ly/cFJKqF ]
  12. Prediction: Posting the FBI insignia on ones blog, Flicker, twit-pic, Tumblr is about to be a gigantic meme. http://re-x.me/FBI
  13. Amen, Brother [RT @dannysullivan] when you're not in NY or SF, debates over who has the best tech scene makes both seem full of themselves
  14. @carr2n Waterskiing and bowling for the first time in years introduces you to pain in muscle groups you didn't know you had
  15. According to @NashWX , it's going to be rather balmy in Nashville tomorrow. (We have real heat, none of that "dry" stuff.) http://re-x.me/p9
  16. A public thanks to @mmccue for calling me today. Impressed that he took time from his rockstar week for some friendly critique. #flipboard
  17. Sidney Harman's secret plan to save Newsweek: Free set of JBL speakers with each subscription.
  18. "Single sign-in" sounds so easy, but can be a project train- wreck. How hard is it? Google is only now offering it: http://re-x.me/p7
  19. @Tabbulous Are you talking about my spelling?
  20. Connecticut AG investigating Apple and Amazon over e-Book pricing policies that block lower price rivals. - http://nyti.ms/cyfmJM