Commuter plane crashes in N Carolina A bad start to the year for air travel, all the more since last year found no commercial airline crashes anywhere in the world. [ahem, I have no idea what gave me this idea, but… airline crashes timeline ]. Some things seem disproportionally technologically advanced. Air travel is one of them. Consider that during its lifespan a jet engine turbine is spinning more than not, making it the most reliable piece of engineering on the planet. Imagine a year free of computer crashes.

Apple marketing department take note, webloggers are your friends. As memes spread from the Apple conference. 13 of today’s Daypop Top 40 Links are Apple related.

via Dave Winer: Start-up marries blogs and camera phones Dave argues rightly for MetaWeblog API support. The Blogerazzi await.

Bruce Bartlett: I think they [weblogs] are going to revolutionize politics and news gathering permanently. via Doc Searls

As the Apple faithful gather in San Francisco, Merrill Lynch rains on the parade and advises Apple investors to sell. This should be a great time for Apple, people are increasingly buying PC’s and software because of good design, something that Apple excels at. As the PC market saturates, Dell and Gateway and the likes are selling peripherals, again, with the iPod, Apple has demonstrated its prowess. Thirdly Apple has successfully courted a new market, developers, with the popularity of its Unix based operating system. Merrill’s gripe is that Apple’s hardware product pipeline is stymied by the fact that it cannot compete with Wintel PC’s on price/performance. So what is the problem? Answer, Intel not inside. Apple went with Motorola, and Motorola got distracted elsewhere and could not match the price performance of Intel. Although Apple are switching away from Motorola, it is not to AMD or Intel, but to…