Yahoo, in its new service features has come up Domain Keys . Here’s how it works: There are two steps to signing an email with DomainKeys: Sending Servers Set up: The domain owner (typically the team running the email systems within a company or service provider) generates a public/private key pair to use for signing all outgoing messages (multiple key pairs are allowed). The public key is published in DNS, and the private key is made available to their DomainKey-enabled outbound email servers.

Look at this strange announcement in Ireland : Announcement in Ireland “Irish Archbishop Sean Brady recently declared that  TVs and mobile phones should be switched off one day each week to help preserve Irish society… [as] the incessant noise of modern life was threatening to tear society to pieces.  At a church service in County Kilkenny, Dr Brady said there needed to be a return to “a sound of silence”.

The item level tagging in RFID,though years away is starting to find its use in Library. These places would be a nice place to study the tech adoption Link: Microchips keep Vatican library tidy. “With the introduction of the so-called RF-ID (radio frequency identification) technology, that should rapidly become a thing of the past. “You just walk in front of a shelf and you can immediately see on the screen a list of all the books and their contents,” Dr Piazzoni told the Italian news agency, Ansa.

Via Clay Shirky: Can someone make money by blogs? Clay Shirky in his article says that blogs essentially destroys the intrinsic and extrinsic values of Print Publishing. Intrinsic - It takes real work to publish anything in print, and more work to store, ship, and sell it. Because the up-front costs are large, and because each additional copy generates some additional cost, the number of potential publishers is limited to organizations prepared to support these costs.

Here are 2 fabulous posts on Persistence by Joe Kraus - Excite Founder Bnoopy: Persistence Pays. Part 1. Bnoopy: Persistence Pays. Part 2.