“You and I will heal this nation and repair the world and finally have an America that we can believe in again in four days time.”

Barack Obama, in New Hampshire, following his win in Iowa. (Quoted in The New York Times)

“Though it’s tempting to get into a race where your aim becomes to reach 1000 followers on Twitter or and equally high number of Facebook friends, it doesn’t offer anything more than a temporary ego boost. “

Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing, on one of the three things he plans to do in 2008, including “making better friends.”

“The key is little ‘m’ media – the information, the experiences, and the stuff that we consume and share every day.”

Brian Reich, on how organizations need to change the way they approach media.

“Make no mistake, the Web is taking over. Applications are moving to browsers en masse…”

Washington Post’s 25 most innovative products of the year.

“I equate social networks to snowflakes, no two are the same.”

Tom Whittaker, responding to post by Krishna De on Facebook (which she calls relaxed and eclectic) and LinkedIn (which she says is used by people in Leadership roles.

“It’s very ‘fudgable’ “

Dan Wool, on the Business Journal’s top 10 list of PR agencies in Phoenix using head count as one of the criteria, being flawed.

“Users can restrict who sees their information, and block users”

“Computing Which?” magazine, quoted in Media Guardian, on why Bebo beat Facebook and MySpace among social networking sites.

“Sack the political thug!”

Editorial in Leader Newspapers on Sri Lankan Cabinet minister Mervyn Silva who stormed a government TV station and had red paint thrown on him as he was ‘rescued’ by police. The station broadcast the embarrassing saga live.