Say farewell to the free Wall Street Journal on the iPhone.

According to Paid Content, News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch announced that readers of the WSJ on the Blackberry and iPhone will be charged $2 per week for the privilege of reading news through the respective apps. Online and print subscribers of the WSJ will only pay $1 a week. No time limit has been set yet, but Murdoch says it will be within the next few months.

Translated: one less app on my iPhone.

Four out of five of you are nerds. On your computer exists your hobbies, your current and/or future career, and the rest of your daily life. You don’t own a snowboard, but you do have a blog, a Twitter, an RSS reader, and a pirated copy of Photoshop.

You, my friend, need an Anything Bucket.

Shawn Blanc’s fantastic review and explanation of Yojimbo, one of the best pieces of software I have used on any platform, ever. Worth the time it takes to get your head around the concept and incorporate into your daily workflow.

Federer is the Tiger Woods of tennis, and I’m convinced he’s a robot.

I am only half kidding.

Now, when you are writing a status update and want to add a friend’s name to something you are posting, just include the “@” symbol beforehand. As you type the name of what you would like to reference, a drop-down menu will appear that allows you to choose from your list of friends and other connections, including groups, events, applications and Pages. Soon, you’ll be able to tag friends from applications as well. The “@” symbol will not be displayed in the published status update or post after you’ve added your tags.

This is a terrific upgrade for Facebook. I predict this will be massively popular almost immediately. If you use Twitter, you know that Twitter lives and dies by @ mentions.

Facebook is one step closer to marginalizing Twitter. Just another battle in the fight, but nonetheless I can’t see both existing forever.

I’m still upset at the author for being a thief. Ever been robbed? Like had your house burglarized and your stuff rummaged through and stolen? There’s this period right after it happens when you can’t believe that someone got into where you live, the space where you sleep and bathe and eat, and just took stuff you had bought and taken care of. David Foster Wallace hanged himself and robbed us of all the work he would have produced in the future. Our homes were stocked floor to ceiling with the promise of the best goddamn writing people could make and Wallace fucking ripped it off. I’m still walking around wanting to punch someone. Don’t bother calling the goddamn cops, they won’t do anything.

What an amazing essay, even though he didn’t fulfill this Summer’s best literary project.

r: Refresh view

a: Add a new subscription

/: Search (moves the cursor to the search box)

j/k: Select the next item in the list. You can use this to rapidly scan through a feed.

Space/shift-space: Page down/up, which enables you to scan through longer articles and posts easily.

Shift-n/shift-p: Select the next/previous feed in the list of feeds.

Shift-o: Open selected feed.

m: Mark current item read (or unread).

Shift-a: Mark all items in the current feed as read. This is handy when you subscribe to as many feeds as I do and are constantly confronted by over 1,000 unread items.

v: View original. This is useful for jumping to the web site or blog the item comes from. Note that this opens the original site in a new window, which your popup blocker may disallow.

I forget these too easily and default to lame mouse behavior, and every time I re-discover them I’m amazed at how quickly they allow you to fly around GR.

It is different living up here, among the real Obama voters—not like those posers down South who plastered an Obama/Biden ‘08 sticker to the back of their Hummer—the real kind, not the limp-wristed H2 that General Motors churned out like Rock Crack Cocaine for the masses of The Sopranos Compete Set owning, suburbanized short men.

It’s funny how a sentence’s beauty and poignancy so often go hand-in-hand.

This is a symbolic but real statement of MI’s transformation – we WILL diversify this economy and we WILL lead the nation in green energy.

I’d like nothing more than to see Michigan take a lead role in the (massive and only getting bigger) green energy market. Tweets notwithstanding, this is excellent news in a state where there hasn’t been much. Great to see this, even if the effort is in its infancy.

Class act.

Easily the best freehand map drawing I’ve ever seen. Had I tried this, you’d have something that looks like a cross between a bloated, legless turkey and a watermelon.

Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information. Since extropy is defined as negative entropy — the reversal of disorder — it is, by definition, an increase in order. But what is order? Despite our intuitive sense, we lack a good operational definition of order, which seems to be tied up with complexity (see Ordained Becoming). For simple physical systems, the concepts of thermodynamics suffice, but for the real world of cucumbers, brains, books, and self-driving trucks, we don’t have useful metrics for extropy. The best we can say is that extropy resembles, but is not equivalent to, information.

Long and complex article, but absolutely fascinating. I suggest reading the whole thing.

Town Hall Investment Research analyst David Eller asserted in a research note this morning that sales of the Pre “are continuing to slow,” and “likely will come in dramatically below” Sprint’s (S) reputed target of 1 million to 1.5 million customers for the year.

I can echo John Gruber’s observation that I have not yet seen a Palm Pre in use in real life.

1. Go to about:config
2. Right click, select New, select Boolean
3. Enter the preference name “config.trim_on_minimize”
4. Double click “config.trim_on_minimize” to set this value to true
5. Restart Firefox

Firefox will free up memory when the application is minimized.

This is a great tip, as FF memory usage is one of the biggest issues on my Vista PC here in the office.

Three years ago, the debate was that social media was only good for those who wanted to follow what complete strangers were eating for lunch. And there may have been some truth to that, back in the inception days.

Today, people who still believe that are the ones who don’t understand — or care to understand — social media’s role in modern life. It’s to the point that when I hear someone say Facebook and Twitter are just toys for bored kids, it’s not even worth the energy to engage them. Because to maintain that stance today given the massive mainstream attention these platforms have received, there must be a willful, constant vigilance to remain uninformed.

The video was created by Socialnomics, and while it’s likely a self-serving mechanism, the trend it explores is impossible to ignore.

(Via Jeff M.)