"To understand a new idea break an old habit." Jean Toomer

"Genius always consists of conceiving of the self-evident." Hermann Bahr

"Successful people seek out their futures from the present; failures seek out their futures from the past." Li Ao

Today's image: La Pyramide du Louvre by Gregory Bastien. Beautiful shot. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting data from Quantcast. In the last six months...

Facebook has grown from 36+ to 64+ mil (MySpace declines 70 to 68 mil)
Twitter has grown from 1.1 to 4.1 mil
YouTube grows from 72 to 78 mil
Ning has grown from 2.2 to 6.2 mil
Flickr grows from 22 to 24 mil
SecondLife has grown from 900k to 1.3 mil

Selected rankings from Top 100 sites (today's data) ...

5. YouTube 78 mil
8. MySpace 68 mil
9. Facebook 66 mil
24. USA Today. 29 mil
27. CNN. 27 mil
30. Flickr 24 mil
41. Weather.com 18 mil
57. NYTimes.com 13 mil
59. Hulu 13 mil
62. Reuters 12 mil
66. HuffingtonPost 12 mil
69. digg 12 mil
76. NBC 11 mil
83. CNET 11 mil
92. Time.com 10 mil

Bonus: The Death of Web 2.0? by Allyson Kapin via Fast Company, here. Radio: Wave Of The Future by Caroline Krediet via MediaPost, here. Kudos to Allyson and Caroline.

Video: Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreno Youth Orchestra: A musical sensation from Venezuela. My thanks to TED...