Lance Armstrong somewhat famously started using Twitter recently which seems to qualify him to give speeches at Web 2.0 conferences. Say what you will about Armstrong (and people say a lot, not all of it nice) he does know how to work the media.

I stumbled across Chore Wars this weekend via The Avante Game blog. Chore Wars resembles an old school RPG. The idea is simple, create a character and invite your housemates or family to join your party. Then claim in game experience points and gold for completing real life tasks like cleaning the bathroom.

I was pretty enthusiastic about EverNote after my first glance. I liked the idea of a service that would take anything you threw at it and worry about understanding it later, we've got forever right?

I was a bit disappointed that apart from images, it discarded any attachments I emailed to it. To be fair, I only tried a couple of MS Office documents and my screenrc (gotta keep those dotfiles). Thing is, I had rather hoped, within reasonable limits, that these would be saved as notes.

I am deeply saddened to read that Sheldon Brown, the doyen of web bike mechanics, has recently passed away. Sheldon's wonderful site is the antithesis of the surly condescending guy in the LBS. It answers every question you've never asked about crazy Italian bottom brackets, how to weld your own tandem and, of course, how to build the now de-rigeur fixie. He managed to do this with the delightful, easy wit of your favourite uncle.

This is the question posed by Randolph Harrison at Capitalism 2.0. He caused a storm of controversy with this post which suggests it is. He received his share of criticism from Second Lifers, including a raft of people claiming to run profitable businesses.