Usefull tools that we don't have

[persia]

Me too.  Newspapers nowadays rarely reach 240 characters in the whole newspaper, let alone an article...

I find Twitter extremely useful. It's replaced newspapers for me.

[persia]

Some way to order MP3s and transfer them easily to/from an iPhone...

[persia]

What is the point of newspapers in 2009?  I've go CNN on my iPhone, several international news feeds on tv, internet radio, by the time a news even appears in a newspaper I've had heated discussions about it at work, written six blog entries about it, probably tweeted, etc.  By the time the newspaper arrives it's old news.

LOL.  That's some deep reading you must have been doing!  (I'm sure you must be joking.)

[persia]

Probably because Twitter notifications showed up on his mobile phone?

@danwood

That's probably the fault of the news channels you watch.

I was watching BBC News channel and they stated MJ was rushed to hospital after falling ill.  This was within an hour or so of it happening.  I know because I later checked the "official" reports as to when the medics were called.

So unless Jacko's doc twittered that he collapsed I doubt very much how you coul learn a full 30-40 mins before everyone else?

Note I am only talking about him being rushed to hospital.