Endgadget, number one blog on the Technorati tree, just published a post about a multi-touch screen for a laptop. I have used Gestures with a trackpad and they rock, really, and I have a laptop too, but I don't see how fingertip control of flipping images and carousels will ever be applicable to any blogging software I know of.

I am all for geekery, but for starters, I would not want to have my laptop screen dismantled and then rotated 180 degrees by a Cambridge boffin, and more importantly I don't think I could ever change the habit of a lifetime: "Touch my Mac's screen and you're dead!" You know, those annoying gits who point and can't abide not to physically touch the word you can see perfectly well. Graaaghhhh.

Anyway, the technology is surely coming to a portable screen near you, soon, courtesy of Microsoft. Watch the vid if you don't believe me and blog about it.

If you ever want a little nudge to keep you blogging, digest this little snippet on blog popularity I found on wikipedia. There are 200 million discontinued blogs on the internet. If you don't want to add to the dotsam and netsam clogging up the blogosphere, don't jettison your commitment to daily / weekly writing. Class and stickability always win, and as there are only 100 million people still blogging today, the stayers are guaranteed to shine through!


Poorer than You explains how to win a free iPod shuffle from a company that distributes eBooks and comics. It is not a scam, as their high-tech iPod Shuffle (not the one they won from the guys at WOWIO) but the Shuffle they actually paid money for in 2005, is breaking and they need a new one. And you know you want to win too, because bloggers can't possibly concentrate without white earbuds vibrating in their lug holes.

Internet Entrepreneur Tyler Cruz became an accidental hate magnet when he signed up to Pay per Post. He asked PPP to stir up some interest in his blog in return for promoting their service. They obliged, he was happy. Not everyone was so pleased, however, to see him get preferential unofficial superficial treatment. The whiners were probably the folks who have been signed up for ages, can't write for toffee and wonder why they don't make any money?

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