Hype machine indeed

The AP certainly knows hype when they see it - Apple has written six press releases about the iPhone this year, the AP has run 16 stories about said phone in the past two weeks.

Too busy to stand in line on June 29? Help is on the way.

Microsoft shills? Not us, say the bloggers

Sharp post on why the “People Ready” blogola ad campaign stinks and a good roundup of posts from other smart folks.

Adverblogger actually defends Federated Media’s embarassing Microsoft blogola gaffe

Money quote: “The best publications have always been dialogs between great writers, passionate readers, and, yes, advertisers.” Ah, yes, payola is just part of the conversation!

Roughly Drafted pretty definitively tears down the “iPhones are insecure” myths

I suspect that when CEO’s start seeing their kids with these things, they’ll start leaning on IT departments to turn on Exchange’s IMAP service

The world needs more dialog boxes like this

Online cancer

Some great thoughts on online community from Jason Scott, who’s been there and documented online community from pretty much the very beginning.

Crazy on a theremin. A theremin!! [via]

Translation from PR-speak to English of selected portions of federated media publishing vice president Neil Chase’s response to the “People-Ready” ad campaign

Mark Pilgrim rather brilliantly breaks down the whole Federated Media/Microsoft blogola bruhaha

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Interesting peek at who goes to which social network