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title: links for 2007-05-14
date: 2007-05-14T23:27:47Z
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- [Twitter / TwitterLitUK](http://twitter.com/TwitterLitUK)
    
    lovely idea. twittering the first line of famous novels, without saying where they come from. first thing i do when buying a book – read the first line. if it hooks i might buy. this makes it a blind tasting process, so you can’t judge a book by it cover,
    
    (tags: [Amazon](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Amazon) [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Twitter))
- [l.m.orchard’s OPML blog: Saturday, May 12, 2007](http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad/2007/05/12#cilantroOfTheWeb)
    
    wow. this twitter thing really is off the hook. tweets become blogs. blogs become tweets. here a twitter from this weekend is picked up. interestingly the Adobe team also contacted me about it. time to self-censor or time to double down?
    
    (tags: [Twitter](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Twitter))
- [Informa buys Datamonitor (and Ovum, Butler) « Technobabble 2.0](http://technobabble2dot0.wordpress.com/2007/05/14/informa-buys-datamonitor-and-ovum-butler/)
    
    “In one surprising move Informa are positioning themselves as a credible alternative to Gartner in the analyst world. Their research scale mixed with a good mixture of industry expertise from certain analysts confirms them as a major player.”
    
    (tags: [AR](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/AR) [technobabble](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/technobabble))
- [OpenJDK Governance Board](http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/)
    
    Nice.
    
    (tags: [Java](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/Java) [JCP](http://del.icio.us/JamesGovernor/JCP))