Bits of Honey

The holidays...they've been oh so quiet...at least online. This means that the Web 2.0 and other assorted news items that have caught my attention are sparce. Here are a few that made the cut...

• "Amazon.com Inc. called this holiday season its 'best ever'." http://tinyurl.com/89bwjh
• "Buying books online 'was not morally dubious, but it is tragic'." http://tinyurl.com/76lm53
• For her 50th b-day, Barbie's getting an "edgy makeover." Hope she doesn't say, "Math is hard." http://tinyurl.com/6vx26j
• "The publishers say sales of e-books have tripled or quadrupled in the last year." http://tinyurl.com/9uz36u
• Anne Mangen: "Reading on a screen generates a new form of mental orientation." http://tinyurl.com/9ejp9k
• Is Twitter the Next Second Life? http://www.clickz.com/3632175
• New 2008 social networking site stats - http://tinyurl.com/6o4q5a
• Buzzwords of 2008 - "buzzwords were flying like shoes." http://tinyurl.com/7qtw2w