Monday, February 21, 2005

> Hossein Derakhshan: The global web blog community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers' is asking those with blogs to dedicate their sites on 22 February to the Free Mojtaba and Arash Day. Arash Sigarchi and Mojtaba Saminejad are both in prison in Iran...
[Editor: Myself (English)]   11:49:35 PM  Link  Google It!  
> Scott Young: UserLand's Jake Savin will be attending the Web Spam Squashing Summit on Feb. 24. I don't have a ton of details at this point, but it looks to be an interesting gathering of companies with a vested interest in developing a strategy to combat a complex and ever present problem. Spam has rendered email practically useless for many people. If there is one thing that could just kill the consumer side of blogs, its spam. Just noticing the spam in Dave Sifry's post points out how pervasive this problem can be.
[Scott Young's Radio Weblog]   9:23:16 PM  Link  Google It!  
> William Gibson: RIP HST You made me come closer to pissing myself than any writer who ever lived.
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> Liz Ditz: Jerry Brown is one of the more interesting politicians on the planet.  He is still saddled with the snide conservative nickname: "Governor Moonbeam".  He's been the mayor of Oakland since 1998.   He just started blogging...
[I Speak of Dreams]   9:09:54 PM  Link  Google It!