I am looking forward to the time when these 'system/platform' issues are resolved and we can move onto the more exciting stuff - in Chris Saad's words: "...then it's a competition to see which vendors can add the most value to the free flow of data"
david - looking forward to seeing how evernote will contribute to this - will email you shortly.
Nic - when i started reading your post i was convinced you'd be quoting your latest favourite author (and mine) Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His anti-breaking news attitude because of the terrible 'signal-to-noise' ratio is quite refreshing! I guess he relies on obsessed people like us to filter the news and find the nuggets for him. Phil