John Husband's Wirearchy: "Maybe there will be a day when - online - we can look at advertising when we want, find pertinent advertising quickly because the advertising respects the context and the interactive dynamics, and click on it knowing that we are supporting a publisher who cares about us and what we want to know."

Seattle BEAN and Bay Area LinkUp: Social networks go hyper- local and make members happy.

The Financial Express on social networks: " LinkedIn reportedly has 2 million users. 49 percent of them being outside the US-more than 600,000 registered users in Europe and more than 160,000 in Asia. A new professional joins LinkedIn every 12 seconds."

Geektalk: Do you know what a thunk is? Here's a new type of media/RSS thunk. Planetweb20. (Via my man Lucas Gonze)