Fascinating piece on The Atlantic, via Peter Brantley. This seems prosaic at first, but so much cooler when you give it a try.

"The New York Times rolled out an update of the trusty hyperlink on its website's stories. New code embedded in the pages allows you to link to and highlight individual paragraphs and even sentences. The changes seem especially significant for bloggers who want to call attention to specific portions of Times' stories."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/the-hyperlink-grows-up-the-times-releases-new-linking-features/67219/

A couple of people kindly picked up on the portmanteau I used in my presentation to the BIC conference yesterday, which I'm posting here - the logo was put together for me by the brilliant colossalsquidink.

"Early adopters of e-readers such as the Kindle tend to be males in their 20s and 30s, but readers who are thinking of buying such devices in the near future are mostly women and are over the age of 35, according to a Bain & Company survey of almost 3,000 consumers in six developed countries."