After pre-ordering a Kindle Touch, I changed my mind and ordered the $79 base model.
Back in the spring, I bought my wife a Kindle 3, and have borrowed it a good bit since then. The price was right, so I thought it was time to get my first Kindle. And it doesn’t suck.
The new Kindle is quite a bit smaller and lighter than the old one. The keyboard is gone, as is all of the audio gear. The new one weighs just 5.98 ounces. It makes the Kindle 3 — at 8.5 ounces — feel quite heavy.
Ryan Dalton at Operation Broken Silence:
Human trafficking is a crime that is changing with the increased connectivity of our world through the internet. While trafficking once was confined to brothels, strip clubs, and massage parlors, modern traffickers are increasingly relying on the anonymity and connectivity provided by the internet to sell victims.
To help fight this, Operation Broken Silence has released two reports this year on Backpage, a website that makes finding sex for sale easier than ever before.
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger:
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a part of the data.
Tech stuff aside, those numbers are staggering to me. (If SQL and UUIDs get your juices flowing, read the whole post.)
Verizon on Friday appealed the FCC’s net neutrality order, formally getting the ball rolling on the expected court battle over the controversial Internet rules.
Verizon was a vocal critic of the rules when the FCC adopted them in December, saying that the FCC does not have jurisdiction over broadband and therefore cannot regulate how Internet service providers manage the traffic that flows over their networks.
“We are deeply concerned by the FCC’s assertion of broad authority to impose potentially sweeping and unneeded regulations on broadband networks and services and on the Internet itself,” said Verizon Senior Vice President Michael Glover.
He nails why hardcore Mac users don’t like the new feature:
Remember, geeks like you and me are the minority of Mac customers.
While these guys may have too much free time, I’d totally buy the next iPhone1 if it looked like that.
Who am I kidding? I’ll be ordering it no matter what. ↩︎
Google’s Larry Page, via Claire Cain Miller at the New York Times:
I see this as our responsibility to some extent, trying to improve media. If you ask anyone about how that information’s going to be propagated, what you’re going to focus on, I think it could work a lot better than it does now.
We as an Internet community, we have a responsibility to make those things work a lot better and get people focused on what are the real issues, what should you be thinking about. And I think we as a whole are not doing a good job of that at all.
The Kindle will let me have a cheap device that won’t heat up in the blistering summer sun, is light enough to hold and read one handed, won’t be affected by glare from the sun, and I won’t mind reading while standing in the pool because for 80 bucks it’s relatively replaceable.
I pre-ordered the Kindle Touch yesterday, but today, canceled that order and got the basic Kindle.