This past week’s story about a time traveler in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film swept across the Internet faster than a speeding Lolcat. The “time traveler” was quickly debunked as a hearing aid … but it’s a great story nonethless.

Today was a very rare day for me: I slept in till about 10:30. I do that maybe twice a year.

So of course, one of the first things I see when I log on this morning is an article entitled, “Why I Wake Up Early (And 9 Reasons You Should Do So Too).”

I wonder if the universe is trying to tell me something.

“The trouble is when you’re young a lot of times you don’t value the information you have access to, so you just ignore it. It’s there under your nose and you don’t avail yourself of it.”
—Robert Crumb

… so here’s the highest-quality piece of video I could find of him from back in the 1980s. This was taken at an Apple event, in 1983.

I’ve said for years that LinkedIn’s groups feature has great potential but lousy actual value.

Now Facebook groups are starting to take off, and the digital inspiration blog details some of their benefits over here. I suspect that “great potential but lousy actual value” may come to characterize them, too, but let’s check back in a year and see.

Meanwhile, there’s another player: ProfNet, which is part of PRNewswire, which has aspirations of combining the best pieces of HARO and LinkedIn. Will it work? As the cliche goes: Only time will tell.