My earlier prediction that there’d be more tablets than we could count is coming true, and the WSJ has noticed (the tablets, not my prediction). Prepare to lose market share, Apple, here comes the rest of the world.

RIM Readies Its Answer to iPad (WSJ) And that’s just one of many….and we’re really in the very, very early innings. Graphic at left is from the WSJ piece.

Currency (Searchblog) In which I discuss a project from American Express and FM that I am quite proud of.

Where Good Ideas Come From (AVC) Overview and video of Steven Johnson’s new book, from Fred Wilson. Both will be at Web 2 Summit in November.

Buying Audience? Time to Forget Cookies (AdAge) I honestly can say I don’t understand this, but I want to.

VideoEgg + Six Apart = SAY Media [Digital Daily] (ATD) Congrats to both companies!

Google Reports on Government Requests and Censorship (NYT) Good for Google, I say. This is not an issue that goes away with time.

Wireless dead zones (SFBT) Wow, this is cool. I wrote up this idea a while ago, hope they were reading!

So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar…(TC) Good for Mike for reporting this. I am sure it was hard. But it’s important. In short, he got a tip that led to discovery of what looks to be informal collusion between important funders of the Valley dream. See also the Quora question here: Who are the Super Angels… note in particular how location based checkins all of a sudden become evidence…very interesting.