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Social Media Implications for business: IBM’s Irving Wladawsky-Berger recounts the highlights of a panel discussion. The portion about old media’s reaction to the new media ‘revolution’ is particularly notable.

The death of the URL by Chris Messina: “…a future without URLs and without the infinite organicity of the web frightens me. It’s not that I know what we’ll lose by removing this artifact of one of the most generative periods in history… the ability for anyone to mint a new [URL] and then propagate it is what makes the web so resilient, so empowering, and so interesting”

Open as in water by Paul Buccheit: “The basic pattern of openness is that better access to information and better systems lead to better decisions and better living. This general principal is broadly accepted, but we’re just now discovering that it also applies to the minutiae of our lives.”

After Cheney: NYT Magazine’s profile of Vice President Biden. Conjecture is that with resposibility for cleaning up the US’s Iraq mess, Biden could be the second-most powerful VP after Cheney.