If you’re waiting for the latest and greatest new car, wait a little longer. These are the 6 to consider. From CNN Money:

Lincoln MKX: Besides a new, more flowing design with Lincoln’s signature “bow wave” grill, the MKX crossover gets a new 305-horsepower 3.7-liter V6 engine. The MKX will be quieter than competing crossovers from Lexus and Audi, Ford boasts, while being more enjoyable than today’s MKX. Besides the new engine, which you’ll also find under the hood of the new Mustang, the MKX will have a manually shiftable six-speed automatic transmission.

People are waiting for a Lincoln with a Mustang engine? Other on the waiting list:

Honda CR-Z, Ford Focus, Mercedes-Benz E-class Cabriolet, Ford Mustang GT 5.0, and Cadillac CTS-V Coupe.

I think I’ll wait awhile longer.

Clever music video by Oren Lavie.

Refreshing. Delightful.

Remember Sony’s Walkman? 25 years ago it was the cat’s meow. I started a commercial audio recording business lugging around a Walkman so customers could hear what I could do. That was then and this is now. The BBC invited 13 year old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Sony Walkman for a week.

When I wore it walking down the street or going into shops, I got strange looks, a mixture of surprise and curiosity, that made me a little embarrassed.

The iPod is a click or two to any of thousands of songs. The Sony Walkman was revolutionary—one cassette tape at a time.

The need for changing tapes is bothersome in itself. The tapes which I had could only hold around 12 tracks each, a fraction of the capacity of the smallest iPod.

The Walkman was nice and the article brought back memories, but I prefer my iPhone. It’s too bad that eight years after the iPod that Sony still hasn’t figured out how to make a music player for the 21st century work with a cell phone.

Highly critical of standard media journalism, Dan Gillmor’s 22 new rules of news.

#6:

We would refuse to do stenography and call it journalism. If one faction or party to a dispute is lying, we would say so, with the accompanying evidence.

#16:

Beyond routinely pointing to competitors, we would make a special effort to cover and follow up on their most important work, instead of the common practice today of pretending it didn’t exist.

Worthy reading.

Good overview from Rixstep of the four best Twitter clients for Mac users, including my current favorites, Tweetie and Twitterific (both Mac and iPhone).

Canary, TweetDeck, Tweetie, and Twitterrific manage your tweets and followers in different ways. Different strokes for different folks, right? Or, is it, different tools for different fools?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock of late you’ve become aware of Twitter. Everybody’s using it. Google have dozens of feeds there. And Twitter is eminently easy to use. With a 140 byte post limit no one can fault you for bad grammar or spelling or anything. It’s perfect for both corporations wanting to push new product, celebrities who have to know everyone in the world is watching them, and your garden variety illiterates.

No, not everybody is using it. The average Twitter user tweets once, which means that Twitter has two distinct classes. Tweeters and followers. Twitter bills itself as the answer to the question, “What are you doing?” In reality, Twitter has quickly become a personal or corporate RSS feed with a retarded limit of 140 characters.

Ryan Seacrest, Ashton Kucher, and Larry King have millions of followers, but is anyone really paying attention to what they say?

As if to emphasize our vapid love affair with banal aspects of new technology, check the value placed on various aspects of the Mac Twitter clients:

TweetDeck has a far better icon than any of the others. Tweetie’s is horrible; Canary’s looks like open source; Twitterrific is just too ‘Apple’ - like having one too many helpings of meringue pie.

The icon. What a great reason to choose a utility to waste time than a feature without merit?

How many of your conversations with those of the texting and Twittering crowd have been interrupted repeatedly with buzzes, bleeps, and bird sounds, as the person you are supposedly conversing with grabs for the phone to review and respond to an incoming message?

Our lives are becoming tattered and strained under a barrage of endless, needless, and fruitless activities which take time, energy, effort, maintenance, and management and provide so little in return, other than shameless self promotion for the tweeters, and little else for followers.

In deference and to paraphrase René Descartes’ succinct implication of existence, “I tweet, therefore am I?”

First, big newspapers, now another print magazine on the rocks. This is the changing of the guard. Analog vs. digital. Atoms vs. bits.

“Advertising is down, circulation is down, there are alternatives like the Internet where people are getting their information”, said Richard Mikels, a partner with law firm Mintz Levin. “It’s a tougher industry than it used to be.”

It will only get worse. Online advertising revenue for media entities is not as prosperous as print and broadcast advertising revenue used to be.

This one belongs in my Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics file. The U.S. Census Bureau says 270-million cell phone subscribers sent an average of 407 text messages back in 2008, double that of 2007. From CBS News:

Americans punched out more than 110 billion text messages last year, double the number in the previous year and growing, as the shorthand communication becomes a popular alternative to cell phone calls.

What’s the problem? The headline, Texting Now More Popular Than Cell Calls. More popular? How? Sheer numbers, not texting time vs. talk time, for sure. That said, we added texting to our iPhone plans to keep in touch with our children.

Interesting stats, though. The average length of a cell phone call is down to 2.3 minutes. The average monthly phone bill remains flat, at about $50. The average teen sends more than 2,000 text messages a month.