Time to live blog April Fools 2010! Some of us got a jump start on the time-honored tradition (not to name any names here), but we still have about 24 hours of shenanigans left. As the new hire, I have the dubious honor of managing the TechCrunch April Fool’s Scorecard.

Plus a great take from Jeff Jarvis writing in the Guardian, and linked to in Paul's article:

"So to try to transpose old business models to this new business reality is simply insane. Just because people used to pay in print they should pay now – when the half-life of a scoop's value is a click, when good-enough news that's free is also a click away, when the new newsstand of Google and Twitter demands that you stay in the open, searchable and linkable? This argument I hear about paywalls comes from emotional entitlement (readers "should" pay – when did you ever see a business plan built on the verb "should"?), not hard economics."

Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

Great article from Paul Carr on Techcrunch about News International's paywall ambitions. In the past I've not been to keen on Paul's writing on TC, finding it verging on the irrelevant and silly sometimes. But I think this is terrifically well written and argued. A top bit of journalism about appropriately enough the future of journalism.

I enjoyed it so much, it's one of those rare online news occasions I would have happily paid for it.

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Qouted from post: "This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. First, what are info atoms? A tweet is an atom. A photo on Flickr is an atom. A conversation item on Google Buzz is an atom. A Facebook status message is an atom. A YouTube video is an atom.

Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc.

A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.

So, what are the seven needs of real time curators?"

Brilliant post from Robert Scoble this morn. Inspirational start to British Summer Time, and the starting gun on a lot of late (working) nights methinks.

Built to Resi(s)t by Quinze & Milan
and Eastpak

March 16th, 2010

Belgian design brand Quinze & Milan will present a sofa covered in pockets for backpack company Eastpak at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month.

Awesome, beautiful, captivating.

They were on the set of ‘The Man Who Would Be King’.

Caine said to Connery, “Have you noticed how John Huston never gives us any direction?”

Connery said, “You’re right, he doesn’t.”

Caine said, “Go and ask him what’s going on.”

And Connery went over to Huston and said, “John, how come you never give us any direction about how you want us to play our parts?”

And John Huston said, “You only have to do that when you get the casting wrong.”

 

 

 

 

 

According to research performed by Nectar Business for its 2010 Small Business Awards BlackBerry use effectively adds 10 days of work a year for employees. They did this research in the UK surveying 1,000+ BlackBerry workers about the impact of BlackBerrys on their working lives.

ps. I wonder if the picture above that illustrated the post is of real people? Surely they're not posed models from a cheesy photo library?

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