VoIP You

• [Daily Post from my people] YoIP You: Tracking, Stalking, and VoIPing

"With such easy access to espionage-inspired technology, the question becomes: why spy on normal people when you could be spying on celebrities? Well, the good people at Gawker Stalker have made it possible for anyone with a VoIP or cell phone to turn into a world class paparazzo."

• Fractals of Change: Better Communication in Disasters – Help From CBS News

Tom Evlsin: "I never would have proposed a government rule if the local monopoly had taken these steps on their own in the last catastrophe or ported the out-of-service and unreachable numbers to one of the companies which volunteered to provide free voice mail for the duration of the disaster."

• ZDNet.com/IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband: MoveOn.org's "net neutrality" petition is naive and silly: Pulver's Save the Internet initiative is not

"If it is done right, a winning entry in Jeff Pulver's Viral Marketing Contest to Save the Internet could be so much more effectual. If crafted with the right petina, such a winning entry could actually change minds."

• CBS News: In A Crisis, Will Your Phone Work?

"The option to leave a message for anyone calling a non-working phone - for example, "I did survive the flood, am in Houston and will call you back, please leave a message" - or forward calls to another phone number - for example, a friend's house where an evacuee is temporarily staying - would kick in when a phone is unusable for 12 hours."

• Boing Boing: Laptop stand designed for airplane seat-back tables

"The Aviator laptop stand is specifically designed to elevate your laptop and position its screen on a narrow, cramped airplane seat-back tray." And it costs only $20!