links for 2007-02-20

You’d have better luck with seeing the Lochness monster than a new DS Lite at your local store.

These aren’t PhotoShopped fakes but real iPhone clones. See how they stack up. Will the real deal smack them down or send Apple back to the drawing boards?

Paying the rent with blogging after 3 years of hard work. Read/WriteWeb sure has lots of original and good content though.

Good headlines will make or break content. A so so post with a hot headline and introduction might carry you through.

How Kremlin’s hired trolls stifle free speech and democracy on the internet. Original content translated from Russian.

QQ has half a billion and counting? Dang. If only they would all flood MySpace and kill their servers. Seriously, this is why Google sold their soul but will Chinese government succeed?

Maybe Google can buy Wikipedia and be done with it? Are we seeing originality on the web die in obscurity in favor of encyclopedias?

If anyone knows about scalable disk storage it’s Google. I wonder what’s holding them back from doing something like Amazon’s S3. I would imagine that they could hold costs down even lower than Amazon.

Sound about right to me. Had a flood of them today.

From the “I’ve started smoking crack” department. This quote makes the link worth a visit, “THE SHY and retiring, softly-spoken CEO of Microsoft, Steve “Sounds of Silence” Ballmer is blaming software pirates for Vista’s poor sales.”

NYC is re-emerging on the tech scene. Start spreading the news.

Not in China or India. I think the more important question should be, “is it worth a couple billion $$$?”

Late bloomer or early achiever? The problem is you wont know that you weren’t a late bloomer until it’s too late.

Tell me about it.

At least they avoided Ebay.

Finally, MyBlogLog takes some concrete steps against spammers.

Young girls looking to Disney, Britney, and Lindsay for role models. The result? Prosti-tots.