News of the day: Google buys Jaiku.
If such news had to come—and if anything, I was expecting Google to make a run at acquiring Twitter—it is good it came today, a typically full one for my on the academic front. With a handful of deeper blog posts on the current micro-blogging champ Twitter sitting in the queue, I might be tempted to spend the next 12 hours working up a long response. You get the hour-long short version today: Don’t Panic.