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Here’s our take on news that matters for Tuesday, April 11. Today’s theme is me too, and here are a some links to headlines about technology that is changing the way we live and learn.

• Gaming — According to
  Nintendo of America’s George Harrison
  , we can expect twenty new game titles at the launch of Nintendo’s Revolution.
• Blogging, mediacasting, and online creations — Last week we mentioned the new report out by Forrester’s Charlene Li that hedges all bets on the viability of podcasting as a real and a sure-bet technology adopted ubiquitously. Since Li’s original post, there have been a number of responses by those who disagree. David Utter over at Webpronews has a nice summary of responses to the Forrester report. Also, you might be interested in BlogBurst, a new service that feeds the best of the blogosphere to traditional publishers. This will be interesting to follow to see how well the marriage takes. Finally, Audible’s stock jumped 10% in anticipation of a positive report on podcasting adevrtising revenue.
• Handhelds – David Grimes from the Sarasota Herald Tribune has a fun op-ed piece devoted to that segment of society that really doesn’t want more new features on their cell phones. In fact, he argues, there is a group of people who with the thing had never been invented in the first place. Okay, I’m a bit of a sucker for kids’ stuff (maybe because mine are almost grown. Check out the new iTod from Fisher-Price.
• Social Networks – Heilio is the only place where you can really get the full social network experience (MySpace) while mobile.
• Technology Talks — After AOL made their move with old television shows streamed ont eh Web, it wa sonly a a matter of time until other companies followed suit. Disney (ABC) has announced that it will be airing popular shows on the Web in a :trial” during the months of May and June. Webaroo and Acer have put together an unplugged serach solution for the Web.
  Their new software service enables consumers to instantly search web
  pages and view web sites anytime, anywhere, without an Internet
  connection, on their handhelds and laptop computers.