The Incredible released for Verizon Wireless after Google announced it would not be manufacturing the Nexus One smart phone for the wireless service provider.  Google’s Android operating system is present on the HTC made Incredible which became available to Verizon customers April 29.  After seeing the early reviews on Twitter and elsewhere and having been holding out for the Nexus One, I too made leap to the Incredible.

Recently, music-based blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger have been disappearing, seemingly shut down by Google in a move to combat illegal digital downloading. This week saw more sites being deleted.  Many sites have been blocked with little or no prior warning.  In response to Google’s abrupt actions, many bloggers and readers took to Twitter to voice their opposition to the take downs.  The hash tag #Musicblogocide2k10 is being used to mark the discussion.

The Twitter Search interface is brilliant.

Thousands of tweets are posted per minute. And this tool allows you to search all of them — in real-time. It’s been affectionately called the “Google of Twitter” in the past, and it’s sometimes viewed as a threat to Google itself. Simply put, it’s a tool you can’t miss.

Tonight I had the chance to meet Rick Murray, president of Edelman Digital, a division of Edelman that specializes in digital communication and social media outreach. He says there’s a new 24-hour news cycle and media companies must adapt.

“Today news is broken on Twitter, guaranteed. Then it goes to the Web site, and then the newspaper,” he said. “You have to know this because this is where things are going.”