The Internet will eventually kill public schools

Boy that would be nice.

Trying to keep up with constantly updated RSS feeds is a time suckhole and productivity killer

I have thought that very thing for years. Now Ars Technica writer Jacqui Cheng appears to agree with me.

I don't like Firefox 6 much

Others are having issues with it too. I have been using Firefox since it was a < one megabyte beta release too.

Fox News blogger tells us that Slashdot, Salon, Blogger, Chatroullete and Digg, among others are dying and doomed

"What seemed so fresh when you first registered", says John Brandon a Fox News technology blogger,  "now seems like a ghost town. What happened? According to Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg, site visitors routinely check the door to see if anyone else is leaving for better services. Like lemmings, they can pull up stakes and leave in a heartbeat. (Facebook, are you listening?) All you can hear are the crickets." [Facebook link in original]

I don't know about the rest of Brandon's analysis but the part about people being able to scurry away to someplace else sure is true enough. Anybody here remember Friendster, Napster, or Del.icio.us?  All of them and many more after being the hot new thing and the place to be on the web at one time not too long ago are now ghost towns or gone altogether.

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Privacy is gone. Get over it: "The Electronic Frontier Foundation's FOIA request has revealed government memos encouraging agents to befriend people on a variety of social networks, to take advantage of their readiness to share — and to spy on them."  Via this Slashdot post. Watch out what you post and who you chat with. The feds are out there listening, watching, gathering and storing intel on us. Not to mention the corporations who have been doing this for years.

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The artist currently known as Prince declares Internet dead - Digital Spy
Overthrowing the Government: As American as Apple Pie - C4SS (Kevin Carson)
"It’s nice to remind people, as they gather for July 4th picnics and the local car dealers run ads thanking the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for 'our freedoms,' that the holiday they’re celebrating commemorates — as one libertarian blogger put it — the victory of an insurgency against a global military superpower."
Flash-bang grenades ignite legal battles in Michigan - Daily Caller/Detroit Free Press
New ultra-battery is the most powerful non-nuclear energy storage ever - io9
Wayne county, MI (Detroit) DA wants parents jailed for missing parent-teacher meetings - WILX-TV
Leave the Orcas alone already - Outside
Leave 'em in the ocean and they won't kill their so-called "handlers."
Colton Harris-Moore (AKA "the barefoot bandit) on the move again? - Seattle Times