“An interesting tidbit from Guy Kawasaki’s wrap-up of his first full year blogging. The key part is bolded. Note that his blog has been consistently between the 35th and 45th most popular in the world, according to Technorati … 2,436,117 page views for an average of approximately 6,200/day … Total advertising revenue: approximately $3,350 = $1.39 cpm.”

“Free, instructor-led, available 24/7… HP Learning center class instructors are subject-matter experts who enjoy teaching and interacting with students. Among them are award-winning authors, technology leaders, and professionals.”

“Bogus prototypes, bullying the press, stifling pillow talk — all to keep iPhone under wraps. Fortune’s Peter Lewis goes inside one of the year’s biggest tech launches.”

Awesome! A new, quite active blog by former XPLANEr Jeff Lash: “How To Be A Good Product Manager is a blog that provides daily tips on good product management practices. While it focuses more on managing technical and online products, most of the concepts are appropriate for broader product management purposes.”

“I’m on a mission this year. A mission to expunge PowerPoint slides from all my clients’ presentations. For a while, I thought it was getting better. People seemed to be using fewer slides, though they were as poorly designed as ever. But, alas, there seems to have been a relapse.”

“Richard Branson does it effectively from a hammock in the Necker Island, Warren Buffet has been doing it since he was 11, and Bill Gates used it to single-handedly build an empire. Arguably the most powerful and effective managers in the world, these men have one thing in common – they owe their management acumen and success not to fancy business degrees from the hallowed portals of Harvard and Yale, but to plain old, not-so-common, common sense.”

The interactive crew at XPLANE has whipped up a great redesign of XPLANE.com (this would be version 5.0) and soon bBlog and xBlog will have a fresh look too. Please pardon our dust. Look for posting to be back to normal next week.