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… it may well be an eternity of trying to reformat a hard drive and reinstall Windows XP. Then again, if you’ve ever tried that (as I spent much of last night unsuccessfully attempting), it feels like an eternity in hell.

As both a magazine fan in general and an editor who spend 15 years in the industry, I think this is a smart idea. Count me in.

Forget the $10 billion valuation suggested earlier this month. Make it $15 billion. Insane.

Unless the type of advertising envisioned for Facebook is genuinely revolutionary, it could create a negative backlash among Facebook users. Or, at worst, serve as the pebble in the social networking pond that causes the school of fish known as the Facebook audience to dart elsewhere.

Takeaway for marketers: Someone’s going to have to pay some very inflated ad prices to help justify the numbers.

Several people have forwarded this Dilbert comic to me over the last week or so. If you’ve had to shuttle any document or piece of creative through a company approval process, you’ll feel Dilbert’s pain. Again.