[MyAppleMenu] Jan 5, 2009

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**** Why Macworld Is Moribund - But Not Dead <http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2009/01/why-macworld-is-moribund-but-n.html>
by FJ de Kermadec, O'Reilly Digital Media Blog
By showing Macworld is, front and foremost, about discussing and expanding technologies that exist whether their begetter is in the audience or not, IDG can certainly give the devent a new vitality and purpose.

**** Macworld: The Men Who Could Replace Steve Jobs <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/apple/4030025/Macworld-The-men-who-could-replace-Steve-Jobs.html>
by Claudine Beaumont, Telegraph
With Steve Jobs absent from this year's Macworld, all eyes are on those senior executives who could, in time, take his place at the Apple helm.

**** Macworld 2009: Andy Ihnatko Tweetup <http://www.shufflegazine.com/2009/01/05/macworld-2009-andy-ihnatko-tweetup/>
by Magnus Nystedt, Shufflegazine
Macworld is the annual gathering of the who's who in the Apple world.

**** Apple Bites Into China <http://www.cctv.com/program/bizchina/20090105/103321.shtml>
by China Daily
As soon as Li Jianming found out Apple's iPhone wouldn't be sold at his favorite Beijing electronics store, he hopped on a train for a 25-hour ride to Hong Kong, the nearest city where his dream machine was readily available. He bought the phone on arrival and caught the next available train to Beijing.

**** Whither Apple? Dispatches From The Steve Jobs Rumor Mill <http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1869499,00.html>
by Josh Quitnner, Time
In the end, of course, until Jobs actually does appear somewhere looking healthy &mdash; a cameo appearance at Macworld would be awesome &mdash; people will fret. As they should: The world will be a diminished place when Jobs steps down from Apple for good.

**** Macbook Air Pre-Keynote Clearance Sale <http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/01/04/macbook-air-pre-keynote-clearance-sale/>
by Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Fortune
The road warrior's favorite Apple notebook, pulled with great fanfare from an interoffice envelope by Steve Jobs at Macworld 2008, is being steeply discounted this weekend, on the even of Macworld 2009.

**** Apple Fans Pray For Steve Jobs Surprise At Final Macworld <http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5444561.ece>
by Michael Harvey, The Times
Some bloggers are still holding out for a cameo appearance from the star of previous Macworlds to liven things up at the Moscone centre in San Francisco.

**** The App Store: First Comes Power <http://dealrange.typepad.com/deal_range/2009/01/the-apple-app-store-and-pricing-power.html>
by Deal Range
Apple is using the App Store to create switching costs, and they know that if /all/ of their users have "invested" in /many/ little applications that will only work on the iPhone, they will eventually have users locked in to a long-term investment in the iPhone franchise.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** All A-Twitter About Stars Who Tweet <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05link.html?ref=todayspaper>
by Noam Cohen, New York Times
Deciding to join a service devoted to spontaneous, often spectacularly mundane updates throughout the day apparently was something to be thought out carefully.

**** Google Hopes To Open A Trove Of Little-Seen Books <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper>
by Motoko Rich, New York Times
Ever since Google began scanning printed books four years ago, scholars and othrs with specialized interests have been able to tap a throve of information that had been locked away on the dusty shelves of libraries and in antiquarian bookstores.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** How To Live What Michael Pollan Preaches <http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/01/05/Mark_bittman/index.html>
by Laura Miller, Salon
Mark Bittman's revolutionary "Food Matters" is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better &mdash; and save the planet.

**** Snark Attack <http://nymag.com/arts/books/reviews/53159/>
by Adam Sternbergh, New York Magazine
I'm sorry, did that sound snarky? I apologize.

**** Bleeping Expletives <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04wwln_safire-t.html?_r=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink>
by William Safire, New York Times
Today we are going to deal with the media coverage of /profanities, expletives, vulgarisms, obscenities, execrations, epithets/ and /imprecations/, nouns often lumped together by the Bluenose Generation as coarseness, crudness, bawdiness, scatology or swearing. But roundheeled readers should stop smacking their lips and rubbing their hands because the deliberately shocking subject can be treated with decorum, in plain words, without the titillating examples of "dirty words." (/Titillating/, from the Latin /titillare/, "to tickle," is clean.)

SingaporeSurf
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**** Life And Style: What Singapore Children Want <http://www.mysinchew.com/node/19806?tid=14>
by Antara News
88% of Singapore's workforce of tomorrow believe that it is more important to spend time with family than to make a large salary and lots of money.

**** Double Standards In Application Of Laws: Do Foreigners Have More Rights Than Locals? <http://wayangparty.com/2009/01/05/double-standards-in-application-of-laws-do-foreigners-have-more-rights-that-locals/>
by Eugene Yeo, The Wayang Party Club Of Singapore

**** HDB Home Loan Defaults On The Rise <http://business.asiaone.com/Business/My%2BMoney/Property/Story/A1Story20090105-112414.html>
by Jessica Cheam, Straits Times
The number of home buyers defaulting on their home loans for three months or more has risen significantly over the last five years.

**** A Piece Of Steak <http://www.thanhniennews.com/commentaries/?catid=11&newsid=45117>
by Ngoc Thinh Le, Thanh Nien Daily
The way Singapore chooses the right students to benefit from the subsidy is the most important thing we have to think about.

**** Doing IT For Free <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/295634.asp>
by Neo Chai Chin, Today
Retrenchment presented software engineer Francis Ong with the opportunity to make a difference in India.

**** Disgrace - The Life And Times Of Chua Lee Hoong <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/01/disgrace-the-life-and-times-of-chua-lee-hoong/>
by The Online Citizen
To pose Chua Lee Hoong's question back to herself: The problem with the Straits Times is realiability. To what extent can you trust what you read in print?

**** Singapore Disturbed By Gaza Invasion <http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/NewsBreak/20090104161925/Article/index_html>
by Zakaria Abdul Wahab, Bernama
"This is an extremely disturbing development," Singapore said today of reports that Israel has begun ground operations in the Gaza strip in Palestine.