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While Andy is in Australia at linux.conf.au , and Michael R is in San Francisco at MacWorld, this week’s show is more of a discussion between Michael M and special guest Kirk Nelson.  Starting with the breaking news on Egypt’s unplugging of the Internet, Michael and Kirk say “like” almost as much as a 1980’s valley girl, debating the pros and cons of pressing that little ‘like’ button.  The discussion on Kindle lending prompts them to consider whether the Kindle lending library process could be (should be?) extended to other forms of media, such as music and video.  Kirk shares some interesting use cases for his iPad, including using a compass on the screen while sailing, and his success in truly going paperless.

Michael M, on behalf of his co-hosts, hopes you “like” this departure from the usual show format, “like” Dogear Nation on Facebook and lend us your tags for next week’s episode.

Breaking News / Social Networkin’
Egypt Leaves the Internet
finding Sadam via Social Networking
like = advertising? shocker!  billsweeney1
Kindle lending club

Going paperless
Navionics iPad application
Evernote
Instapaper
Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500
Word Lens augmented reality translation

Shaq & Smoot
Shaq-o-meter 2011 Boston snowfall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
Google’s calculator converts to Smoots

Some of the links for this week from our listeners included the following:

Simple phones that make calls & not much else — andypiper
Social analytics — Viralheat using tweets to predict purchases — duckboxxer
Talk to the hand! Or maybe take a bat to it — allerhed & billsweeney1
Google periodic table visualization of APIs — heidigoseek
donothingfor2minutes.com — lx5

bonus links
Schramm Drilling
Fullsteam Brewery
Dogear Nation on Facebook
To Hate Like this is to be Happy Forever
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
Dropbox version control