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I checked out the new voice-activated Google Mobile App for iPhone this morning. It works pretty well - not perfect - but solid.

John Eckman of Optaros has raised an interesting set of questions about how to blend corporate blogging with personal blogging. His post is building off of another post by Chris Brogan on the topic.

In John’s words:

I am taking the Acela train down to New York for Web 2.0 Expo this evening, so I generated gmap directions to calculate what time I should leave the office. I noticed that the directions included a few icons suggesting they had street view pictures, so I decided to check them out.

Most of the street view photos were fairly boring shots of exit ramps, but this one caught my eye:

Drupal is a finalist in the Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards in both the Overall Open Source CMS and PHP CMS categories. Readers who already know and love Drupal should head over to the links below and vote now. The rest of you should read on.

This New York Times article about the culture of online trolls is both fascinating and disturbing. It's really about the sad ironies of human suffering. Pain begets more pain. It all makes me sad.

I just found this chart on Econbrowser, one of my new favorite blogs.

U.S. vehicle miles traveled in billions of miles, 12-month moving average. Source: Federal Highway Administration.

I've been using the iPhone 2.0 software on my 2G iPhone for a couple of weeks now. It's time for a check in on how things are going.

The iPhone 2.0 software is slow - as in molasses running uphill on a January morning. And it's not just me. I'm sure there will be an update that will speed things up a bit, but it really is disappointing that this software made it out the door in the first place. Apple has made a clear error in judgement here. Fail.