Asides

LongReply – When you care more than 140 characters. Interesting tool MailChimp has developed for custom support via Twitter. The keyword analysis and hourly email summaries look nifty.

Cavaliers At Nets? Priceless (Almost). Want to treat 21 friends to an NBA game? Tonight’s game between the Cleveland Cavaliers and New Jersey Nets would have set you back a whole $2.42…for 22 tickets! (via Dave Winer)

Is College Really a Million Dollar Investment?. Or, when is a million dollars not a million dollars? It’s also a number that will only be going down in coming years

Merlin Mann writes about “distraction-free software” and its problems:

[It is bad to be] leaving your starry-eyed customers with the nauseatingly misguided impression that their “distraction” originates from anyplace but their own busted-ass brain is really not “helping.” Not on any level. It is, literally, harmful.