Fox News reports that bread lines have begun popping up in California.

Many say a depression doesn’t have to be great, that the economy can sink into a milder depression. The Salvation Army says it’s happening now, and in San Diego County…

Atherton Bartelby at Mashable lists the 10 reasons someone you follow on twitter might not follow you back. Here’s the summary:

1. No avatar
2. No location, website or bio listed

WOW. I ❤ Ted Talks to watch while doing data-intensive tasks or through lunch. This one about a $300 wearable device is pretty amazing:

About this talk

(If you don’t know the song, I recommend you check it out at the iTunes Store)

Consumerist reports a scary incident occurring at The Baymont Inn in Salt Lake City (2080 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT):

Last week, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said that Twitter is a “poor man’s email system” (live notes) .

… which pretty much means he’s clueless on what Twitter’s for.

Making your wordpress blog a little more useful to both humans and machines (and kittehs?) is important for both keeping site visitors and encouraging natural search engine traffic.

Web 1.0 Summit

Web 1.0 Summit: My Garage, San Francisco, originally uploaded by merlinmann.

The long-awaited re-emergence of GrandCentral since Google bought them has come about, being dubbed (of course) Google Voice (what did you expect? With other products named such novel things as “mail” and “news” or (what was that original one called, again?… oh yes…) “search”?)