Reading List July 29, 2005

• Memo to Dell - Jeff Jarvis Does Matter (The Post Money Value) -- Overheard conversations of two bank tellers who didn't buy Dell, one specifically because of Jarvis' blant (blog-rant) about Dell's customer service.
• What Teenagers Think Email Is (Rexblog) -- "It's something used to talk to 'old people'."
• Good Lord (John Battelle) -- McKinsey consultants write not well.
• Google Patenting Ads in Syndicated Feeds? (John Battelle) -- Next, world domination by the Googlies.  Really it's about Google patenting something that some people already seem to be doing.
• Book Excerpt: The Birth of Google (Wired) -- How the Googlies got going at Stanford.
• We are the Web (Wired) -- Article about how wrong the pundits were about the web 10 years ago, what it really is today and what it might become in another 10 years.
• Payday Loans Now Online (Moore's Lore) -- Slimy business makes its way into cyberspace.
• Magic Word (Moore's Lore) -- The real "c" word: communist.
• Q&A with the Next Generation (The Real Money Value) -- Smart kids aska smart guy some good questions.