this is very cool of Google -- Egyptians can tweet by leaving a voicemail, no Internet required: http://is.gd/iww5Pl #egypt #jan25

Eric Schmidt says between the beginning of time and 2003, about 5 exabytes of info created (1,000 petabytes) - now we do that every two days

this story about a boy who escaped a North Korean prison camp is the closest thing to Orwell's 1984 I've ever read: http://t.co/j9tdpXbN

Twitter has released a graphic of last night's tweets: http://flic.kr/p/9E2XzN

Tim Gowers, a Fields medalist in math, says he will no longer publish or edit for an Elsevier journal: http://t.co/iCKZT6la

the Plus One Collection: a book of photos crowdsourced from Google+ http://t.co/SlpbuyBX

"I hereby resign" -- interesting post re: Facebook background checks of potential hires: http://t.co/mNgnlVWE

there are more black men in the grip of the criminal justice system than there were enslaved during the 1800s: http://t.co/U5wL3v9l

this App Store review of Color is one of the funniest reviews I've read in a long time -- and apt: http://t.co/cZnrAL0 /via @gruber

hilarious letter by AdamYauch to the New York Times, which criticized the video for Ch-Check It Out: http://t.co/L1cLXMpj (3rd letter)

best question at #d8: "Steve, we love our iPhones, but our concern is that we can't make a phone call on it. Is someone working on that?"

well played, sir -- RT @edrabbit: Why is Facebook going public? They couldn't figure out the privacy settings either.

surprised how many are saying this is no big deal -- "Twitter users beware: Homeland Security isn't laughing" http://t.co/ZInZ2JeG

on the original proposal by Tim Berners-Lee for what became the web, his boss wrote: "vague but exciting" http://t.co/KqOA9wqa

RT @seb_sears: Perhaps the best BBC News caption you will ever, ever see http://t.co/hj9Brh4V

this is hilarious -- RT @robertrea Never EVER fire your twitter ghostwriters. Check out @markdavidson 's timeline before he deletes it

he's 84, owns a fleet of 140 cabs in a city where a single medallion is worth $1M, and goes to work every morning: http://t.co/YsSlAYVw

however you slice it, a startup that sells for $1B with just a dozen employees and $8M in financing is an incredible story

new post from me based on interview with @neilhimself -- "Gaiman: SOPA and PIPA are on the wrong side of history" http://t.co/wLl7fHVq

so Prince Al Waleed has invested $300 million in Twitter. What happens if there's an Egypt-style "Arab Spring" movement in Saudi Arabia?