News to know: Steve Jobs on teacher unions, Google stuff, daylight-saving bug
Notable headlines:
In a rare public statement about something other than iPods or Macs, Steve Jobs said that "unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy," and that technology in the classroom isn't going to improve public schools until principals can fire bad teachers.
Alfred Thompson, a former teacher and now K-12 Computer Science Academic Relations Manager for Microsoft, chimes in on the Jobs education statements, regarding people who know nothing about schools telling us how to fix them.
Top YouTube videographers descend on San Francisco.
Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bug that could cause Y2K-like headaches. Advice for gadget owners beware and tips for Microsoft users.
Via Slashdot: Google study on consumer hard drives proves that predicting drive failures isn't easy.
Is Google due for a fall? ZDNet blogger Donna Bogatin debates Search Engine Land's Danny in Fast Company. Donna also predicts that TV networks will trump Google's YouTube.
Google takes legal action against naughty Polish poets who have the Internet domain name, gmail.pl.
Larry Dignan: When DRM dies what happens to my restricted songs?
Garret Rogers: Google lets you suggest a better translation.
The future of the Web: User-generated content + user-controlled content and the promise of Yahoo Pipes (BBC News)
ERP center of gravity shifting to India, says Sadagopan. Om Malik sees troubling signs for Indian outsourcers.
Dell may get serious about product design, and about getting feeback from customers and employees via a digg-like site, IdeaStorm. More on IdeaStorm from Jeremiah Owyang.
Jason O'Grady: iPhone rate plans leaked?
Adobe becoming more "Googlesque" as a Web software company with new services like myFeedz, Ryan Stewart asks.
Robert Scoble asks what is social media, offers his own take and gets lots of responses.