One of the more subtle trends of 2010 has been the way that our reading habits have changed, due to a convergence of other Web trends: mobile apps, real-time Web (mostly Twitter), and social networking as a way to track news (mostly Facebook). In the previous era of the Web, the so-called Web 2.0, RSS Readers and start pages were all the rage. Over 2010, though, more people used tools like Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper, Flipboard, LazyWeb, Feedly and TweetDeck, to track news. MORE >>

ZBRYANT.COM Rating Vs. Curating Filed under Output and tagged Articles on December 2nd, 2010 Today the popular iPad app Flipboard which bills itself as “the world’s first social magazine&# released a major update which introduces “the beauty of print, the power of the web.&# Heady stuff, to be sure, but as usual— I’m hung up on the m-word. More and more, magazine is being reduced to nothing more than a form factor. It’s pretty fonts and consistent layouts. MORE >>

John Battelles Searchblog Home Archives News Feed Thoughts on the intersection of search, media, technology, and more. Signal, Curation, Discovery December 11, 2010 By John Battelle This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. MORE >>

In a typical day, I read all or part of 25 to 30 blog posts on B2B communications and journalism. Often, one or two of those stories will share something special—a new way of looking at a problem, a brilliant insight, or an argument that I find compelling. When that happens, I turn to Delicious to bookmark it for future reference. So far so good. But all too often at that point, I’m stumped. When I look for the key sentence or paragraph from the post to save with the link, I can’t find it. MORE >>

Jarred Taylor • com / life / web / law / etc. Someone please build Google Reader + Techmeme View Comments December 2nd, 2010 @ 1:39 pm // Posted in Thoughts I haven’t seriously opened Google Reader in months. That might be because I’m in law school and have limited time to read besides for courses. I don’t think this is true, though, because I still frequent Twitter , Techmeme , Google News , NYTimes , Facebook … yeah, I have plenty of time for other stuff. MORE >>