1. Dispatches from the digital wilderness (Gartner)
Gartner distinguished analyst Nick Jones takes a holiday on England’s south coast – and is shocked at the lack of 3G coverage.
2. Sniffing in StreetView’s tracks (FT)
Richard Waters looks at Google’s data-collection gaffe and says that it may at least have one beneficial consequence: making WiFi users think more about security.
3. Twitter forces media to confront the myth of objectivity (GigaOm)
Mathew Ingram says the sacking of a CNN senior editor over comments made on Twitter is the latest example of the double-edged nature of the social networking site when used by the media.
4. Batter Up! Enterprise giants and the games they play (ReadWriteWeb)
The big guns of the technology world are sometimes like that aging baseball team making another run for the World Series, says Alex Williams.
5. How Facebook will take over the world (The Guardian)
Facebook will announce its 500 millionth user any day now but founder Mark Zuckerberg has already said he expects Facebook to reach one billion users before long, according to Jemima Kiss.
