Maybe I'm just punchy from reading about 500 pages in the last 48 hours, but these cracked me up:

about Facebook Connect: "...information on a user's activities on the third-party website could be sent back to Facebook for his or her friends to see. For example, if a user reviewed a local restaurant on Citysearch, that site would ask the user if he or she wanted to publish the review back to their Facebook profile. Publishing such a profile [sic] on Facebook would alert that user's friends, who would presumably feel compelled to come to Citysearch to read the review..."

about newspapers in the 17th century: "Newspapers typically did not have a local focus; French papers covered British royal scandals, for example, while English papers covered French military mistakes."

iPad learning of the day: accuracy increases inversely to typing speed. I only just figured out that there's more of a delay on here than on a physical keyboard. Rather than typing as though I'm a 911 dispatcher and then gritting my teeth at miscorrections/dropped letters and doubling back, I am thinking happy peaceful thoughts and envisioning that I am typing while drowsing off on a drifting boat on a lake, and it's going much better.