Welcome to “5 Blossoms From The Blog Tree” where each week we spotlight five must-read posts from bloggers listed on The Blog Tree. This week: the durability of Wikipedia, arctic temperatures are bad for your iPhone, mixing up your content, how to fix the post office and C.C. Chapman explains why he’s not a social media jerk.
Happy Birthday, Wikipedia. The birth child of Jimmy Wales turned 10, and Matthew Ingram at GigaOm explains why, despite its issues, Wikipedia is now our information source.
If you’re walking around the icy roads of Norway, then don’t expect the Apple store to refund you for your cracking iPhone. John Biggs of TechCrunch tells the tale of how one woman’s iPhone didn’t survive the frozen north.
Over at ConversationAgent, Valeria Maltoni details her secret sauce for mixing up her content.
The U.S. Postal Service – that agency that delivers packages slower than FedEx and UPS – is kind of broke. Allen Stern at Center Networks gives his tips for how the Postal Service can up revenue without lifting a finger.
A discerning reader seeks C.C. Chapman‘s true motives for using Foursquare. Chapman explains it’s all about serendipity.
