Congrats, Jeff! They're lucky to have you.

Not only did they screw all of us affiliates, but they also fucked themselves out of the income tax we paid on the affiliate income. If it really was $37.5M of income, that's probably at least $10M of tax revenue that's gone. Nice work.

Wow. If I was on that beach, and had seen this cloud (without having ever seen a picture of one), I would be seriously contemplating the end of the world.

I think it would require a different sort of display technology, too. As you've no doubt noticed on the kindle, the screen refresh is pretty slow...assuming that's a limitation of the current technology, they'll have to think of something new there.

Hmm. I use a Kindle every day...my thoughts on your list:

1. Color? Don't care. I mean, it would be cool, but not a game changer.

2. Video? No thanks. I want to read books on it. I've already got multiple devices that will play video just fine.

3. DRM workaround. Yes please!

4. Battery - for what it does today, the battery is fine.

I think for technical books, where you might have charts you need to refer to and such, the new Kindle DX will be just the ticket (it's a bit of a hassle on the existing one). Newspapers? Not sure...if they remain formatted the same way as the existing ones (I read WSJ on mine), don't think it will make a difference (my guess is they will come up with a different layout to take advantage of more space). For reading novels, though, I'll stick with the K2.

I posted a response to this whole conversation here:

http://www.rassoc.com/gregr/weblog/2009/01/15/ent...

Ha - if by "demolish" you mean "have almost caught up to even", then I suppose yes, your dart team is hitting its stride. :-)

I've been using Wordpress myself - I think you'll like it. Can't wait for the presumed intense debate integration!

I agree! I can assure you guys I send Brent at least 2 emails a day about this feature. Ok, maybe not every day, but it's definitely on the sometime-soon list. :-)

David, NNW/iPhone uses NewsGator's sync system, and read states are part of the metadata that's synchronized between applications. As for disclosure, it's covered by our privacy policy...in a nutshell, individually identifiable info is only used to provide the service to you.