These are a few sites I thought were interesting from October 10th through October 20th:

• Wired Family Search – Searches wired.com and webmonkey.com; works better than the default search tool on the site
• The Growth of Talking Points Memo: A Case Study in Independent Media | Media and Technology | AlterNet – Joshua Micah Marshall: “One of the things that is most important about independent media is that you have news organizations not part of the model where they ideally want to be everybody’s dominant news source. If that’s not the case, you don’t have that need to satisfy everybody — and that underlying need to prioritize balance over accuracy.”
• IBM Researchers Using iPhone App Store as Test Bed | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Telling comment by Gadget Lab reader george: “I’m no techie. I have an iPhone. I’m now computing more than ever before. I live by some of my apps. I adore them. They make my iPhone what it is. I don’t even use it as an iPod at all anymore, just a phone, internet, app machine.”
• Neal Stephenson )) Books – Anathem acknowledgements –
• New Chips Poised to Revolutionize Photography, Film | Gadget Lab from Wired.com – Feature story I wrote about the new crop of SLRs that are capable of recording HD video as well: Canon 5D Mark II and the Nikon D90. What makes the video recording possible is a new generation of CMOS imaging chips.