America's Finest News Source sums up the essence of social media: Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet.

We've all heard the cliche "if you fail to plan, you might as well plan to fail." Now comes this sobering piece from Overcoming Bias, by way of 43 Folders on The Planning Fallacy, "a common cognitive bias... which is a repeatable, documented error in thinking that apparently explains why we all tend to underestimate task-completion times."

Interesting piece on the "rapidly evolving landscape for social tools, services, and networks" and a "graphic that helps chart online conversations between the people that populate communities as well as the networks that connect the Social Web" made freely available by Brian Solis on his PR 2.0 blog.

Mashable today profiled the launch of Userplane Boards, "an innovative new message board product (that) combines aspects of Userplane’s other services like chat and IM with threaded message board discussion, creating a real-time environment that makes following conversations much easier."