Monday, August 17th, 2009 by Steven 0 Add a CommentTalk about adding insult to injury: a burglar who stole a laptop and other properties from a woman’s house later logged into the victim’s Facebook account and bragged about the deed, complaining that the TV in the victim’s house wasn’t good enough to steal. The property was stolen from Victoria Richardson, 42, who lives in Hove, UK. The burglar stole an iPhone, a Nintendo DS, a handbag, some cash and credit cards and a black Toshiba laptop.

HAHA the condensed version of what Twitter is like all the time. If you tweet, you can relate. Spotted at Mashable

From the Mashable post If Twitter Consisted of Only 100 People

Filed under: Audio , News , iPhone NPR has launched a new iPhone app with that’s so good it might replace both your computer and your radio as your favorite way to listen to the news. The app allows you to listen to live streams from hundreds of NPR news stations, as well as reading and listening to archived stories. All told, you’re getting over 1,000 stations, news programs and live streams on your iPhone for free. To keep all this content organized, you can add stories to your queue and listen to them in order.

Filed under: Audio , News , iPhone NPR has launched a new iPhone app with that’s so good it might replace both your computer and your radio as your favorite way to listen to the news. The app allows you to listen to live streams from hundreds of NPR news stations, as well as reading and listening to archived stories. All told, you’re getting over 1,000 stations, news programs and live streams on your iPhone for free. To keep all this content organized, you can add stories to your queue and listen to them in order.

Thanks to Mashable , we clearly see power laws at work on Twitter. While many protest this as evidence of “media inequality,” the “non-tweeting will always be with us” (to paraphrase Jesus’s comment about the persistence of “the poor”)—and this is nothing to get bent out of shape about, as Adam has explained . Courtesy of Mashable, David McCandless

I have my fingers crossed that I’ll get one, but I highly doubt I will.Developers have been testing out Google Wave for the past few months, and now Google has decided to open up invites to 100,000 members of the public who signed up to be part of the process. The announcement was made on the developer blog last month:In other news: this morning we announced that we plan to start extending the Google Wave preview beyond developers on September 30th.

Talk about adding insult to injury: a burglar who has stolen a laptop and other properties from a woman’s house has later logged into the victim’s Facebook account and bragged about the deed, complaining that the TV in the victim’s house wasn’t good enough to steal. The property was stolen from Victoria Richardson, 42, who lives in Hove, UK. The burglar stole an iPhone, a Nintendo DS, a handbag, some cash and credit cards and a black Toshiba laptop.

The digital age has brought the death of many older industries and technologies as constant progress has brought about new methods, processes, products, etc. Perhaps one of the most publicly known and widely talked about issues regarding dying industries is that of the newspaper industry. While some will argue that newspapers aren’t dying (right), or that there is nothing wrong with the industry itself and it is merely going through a period of increased “leaching” by smaller news outlets and blogs, the newspaper industry as a whole isn’t doing so hot.

Beyond a look and feel overhaul, Bandsintown has added a number of features to enhance “social music tracking.” You can track artists to get alerts about upcoming shows of artists you like, as well as recommended similar artists from the Bandsintown concert engine. Track a venue to get updates about upcoming shows as soon as they’re announced. Plus, track friends and other users with musical tastes you admire to see which artists they’re tracking, what concerts they’re attending and what they’ve tweeted about the shows they’ve seen.