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...

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

Where do we send a pitch? :-)

Oops - I meant to say congrats, also. :-)

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

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.