FWIW, Best Buy will price match anything on Amazon if it is sold by Amazon i.e. not a partner store. I have done this a couple of times simply because they had what I wanted and I didn't have to wait. I am not defending Best Buy, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Blogs are not dead, thank God! I don't think I could handle having to wade through the noise that is Twitter/Facebook on a daily basis. That's what RSS feeds are for.

Twitter is blogging for people seriously affected by ADHD that can't focus long enough to write more than 140 characters...

That's exactly why it was developed. It was a really nice, consumer-ready reference platform. According to Eric Schmidt:

"The idea a year and a half ago was to do the Nexus One to try to move the phone platform hardware business forward. It clearly did. It was so successful, we didn't have to do a second one." (See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/7864223/Googles-Eric-Schmidt-You-can-trust-us-with-your-data.html)