Topics better left to others to cover today:

• The loss of solitude, the near-omnipresence of ambient shared information, intermittent positive reinforcement, promoting status, embracing technology, the disassembling of the digital self or why the social web is like crack.
• The debate over freemium business models, pursuing traffic v. revenues, the death of advertising or the cult of free.
• Redefining brands, conversational marketing or advertising as content.
• The death of the newspaper industry, the irrelevance of the dinosaur journalist or the genius / banality of “citizen journalism”.
• Self-promotion, the redefinition of celebrities, the cult of the visible self, cyber-hedonism or the inertness of a “personal brand”.
• The closed routes for IPOs, the slump in overpriced acquisitions, the “death” of venture capital or the lack of disruptive thinking and actions by the new venture industry.
• Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed or blogging, the death of email, the threat of technology, the value of serendipity, the loss of the personal touch or the sad, fractured state of communications on the web.

Sometimes a good ramble is fun…