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New World Order?: 17-year old kid landed a job after making this comment on Fred’s blog. Props for making the bold and unconventional decision of not going to college and instead working on something he wants to work on.

Twitter growth: To follow up an twitter’s growth chart from a couple weeks ago, it has now surpassed New York Times in terms of pageviews (although still lagging behind CNN at the moment, but catching up rapidly).

WordPress now has post-by-email: I guess it was just a matter of time before WordPress added this (but I must say it took them a while). They say imitation is the best form of flattery, so hats off to Gary and Sachin.

Indian elections: With the month-long general elections going on in India, its amazing to see how fragmented the political landscape is there. We often complain that the 2 party system is not enough, so its interesting to follow whats going on in a country that’s facing a completely different problem. There are more parties than you can keep track of creating a the need for multi-party coalitions just to make up a majority to win. As a result, you have volatile governments that are as stable as the coalitions that comprise them.