LinkedIn vs. Resumes, Netbooks and Discount Codes for Manning Books on Twitter

Some interesting news tidbits today:

• At the recent Social Recruiting Summit, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman suggested that people are more honest on their LinkedIn profiles than they are on their resumes . Why? Because LinkedIn profiles are public and visible to your peers, who can call you out on embellishments and untruths. I write a little more about this in my personal tech blog, Global Nerdy .
• A while back, I wrote an article titled Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck, in which I suggested that netbooks set up false expectations in the way that a certain burger chain’s apple pies set up false expectation. Now there’s a study that backs up my assertions, and once again, I wrote more about it in Global Nerdy .
• You should be following Manning Publications’ Twitter account! They often announce limited-time coupon codes that can save you up to half off the price of their books in both dead-tree and PDF form. Their current set of coupon codes puts a number of their ebooks at under $20 each.