An Open Letter to Dave Winer, Jeff Bezos, Guy Kawasaki, Bill Gates, President Bush and Others on the Kindle

Well I've wrapped up the Kindle(ing) (heh) in the holiday wrapping paper Maryam bought from Patrick's school. Just trying to figure out what geek would want it for Christmas. Maybe you could leave me a comment if you want it. I know I don't want it.

How frustrating. I paid $400 for a boat anchor. Thanks Jeff Bezos. Thanks Microsoft. Thanks Dave Winer. Thanks Guy Kawasaki. Thanks President Bush. Sheesh.

The Kindle would be worth keeping if it let me store all of my social networks in one place and read them backwards. Kind of like on the Beatles album when everyone thought it said "Paul is dead" if you played it backwards? But the truth is, no one can friend me on a Kindle. So what good is it?

If the kindle acted like Facebook or Twitter in hardware form, sure, it would be worth it. That would be cool. I could carry around all of my friends. Maybe I could skype on it and then it would be like a good mobile phone.

But it doesn't do any of that.

All you can do on the Kindle is read books. What is that about?

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Heh, Okay Halley, We Won't Tell Milan

Just found out on Twitter that Halley Suitt has a present for Milan, and she's showing it off on video. She says she doesn't want us to tell him it's coming. Okay Halley--mum's the word.

Halley's trying to get little east coast/west coast battle going in the video over where the best schools are--Boston or Berkeley.

Hey Halley, wanna tho down like the rappers do? Wait, we're not rappers, we're technologists. heh.

Halley says in her video that Milan's ten. I know time flies on Twitter, but jeesh, slow down girlfriend. ;-)

It's Net-Net on the Net of Kindle

I'm thinking that Web 2.0 Critical Mass occurs when the cost from the number of blogs I pay to read on my new kindle (at $.99 to $2.00 a pop) surpasses the money I make pimping kindles (at $400 a pop) on my blog.

I'm having Dave Winer crunch the numbers. So far it looks like someone should say, "Hey Jeff, why not include blogs in river of news style" on the kindle instead of trying to turn blogs into books. That's so web 1.0.

But if you want to get a kindle for your mom for Christmas, use my Amazon Associates number. Or die.

heh, just kidding.

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