It’s the End of the Web As We Know It and Other Rumors

Apple Scrapple

In the We’re Finally Glad It’s Over Department, Stephen Jobs announced Monday Apple’s plans to upgrade its popular iPhone. Beginning July 11, the new models will come in 8 and 16 GB at prices of $200 and $300 respectively, and will have GPS, along with some smaller modifications.

It finally put to end rumors that threatened to clog up the Net over the last two months as bloviated bloggers offered their withering speculation of Apple’s plan. If you needed a good argument to stop paying bloggers per post, this would have to be it.

Jittery Twitterers

You can’t help but be somewhat amused at the current downtime problems at Twitter. With Twitter down, nobody can bad-mouth it, so complainers are left with slow, cumbersome technologies like email and blogs to vent their frustrations.

The End of the Web As We Know It

And finally, a group of “Internet activists” are predicting the end of the Internet by the year 2012, to be replaced by a subscription model that will make people pay extra to use non-commercial sites. Other than a reference to an article being written in a future Time magazine, no proof is offered, but they seem genuinely concerned. Watch it while it’s still free.