A summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk recently...

• Continuing my tradition of leading with screwball posts, cnet reports on an experiment to see if people will sign anything. The short answer is yes, as a group of college students readily signed documents allowing fellow students to electrically shock them. I also liked the TechCrunch post on a massive multi-player game where you rise from homelessness by joining gangs and staging animal fights. Lovely!

• There were a number of interesting posts on the imaging front. Jim Lyons posts on eBooks and the need for printing, as well as a neat link to the periodic table of Typefaces. IT Facts reports on 2008 printer industry market share and finally a TechCrunch posts on Scribd's march towards self-published ebook dominance . Scribd is touted as the YouTube of publishing, definitely worth checking out.

• This thought provoking AppleWatch post makes the case the the recent iPhone 3.0 OS enhancements move us ever closer to the point when the mobile phone replaces the PC. Interesting stuff.

• On the browser front, Google released a blazingly fast version of Chrome, almost 20 times faster than IE7 on some benchmarks as reported by ZDnet. With this kind of browser speed things can be done with Javascript that are pretty hard to believe. Check out the Chrome experiments site for some fun show and tell. ZDNet reports on a browser war panel whose conclusions are that the "browsers are the platform now." Finally, the next generation of Silverlight will support browserless desktop applications along the lines of Adobe Air.

• This wide ranging Internetnews discussion with Abobe's director of standards  and open source is pretty fascinating. Although adobe is quite open with its technology, it doesn't always go open source.

• uTest, who I have written about before, conducted a pretty interesting publicity stunt to determine who has the buggiest social networking site. Pretty interesting stats in the post on ZDnNet and the publicity angle sure worked!

I'd enjoy reading any comments you have on these items!

Jim