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Dubbya's million dollar photo op. .< 9:27:30 PM  >Guardian Unlimited | Online | Don't write off the net 'Writing, it seems, is very much alive and well on the web. The combination of massive potential readership, almost free publication, and the ease with which words can be put online, means that literary magazines, notoriously profit-free in printed form, are blooming across the web.' The story includes links to a number of sites as examples. .< 9:24:03 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The two faces of Rumsfeld '2000: director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change [...]
Just months after Mr Rumsfeld took office, President George Bush ended the policy of engagement and negotiation pursued by Mr Clinton, saying he did not trust North Korea, and pulled the plug on diplomacy. Pyongyang warned that it would respond by building nuclear missiles. A review of American policy was announced and the bilateral confidence building steps, key to Mr Clinton's policy of detente, halted.' A very impressive display of what css can do. And some very nice design. .< 4:22:17 PM >On this day in 1999 we opened... On this day in 1999 we opened up the channel list for My.UserLand. It was kind of a bold move to encourage Netscape to do the same with theirs, but they never did. The announcement has some gems. "RSS is an XML-based format that represents what we in the Frontier community call a 'weblog' -- a frequently updated site that points to stories on and off-site, that identifies an audience and feeds links to them. Until RSS came along the only format people were using was HTML. RSS changed that." The funny thing is that it wasn't grandiose. At that time all weblogs were done in Frontier. [Scripting News] .< 4:19:59 PM >Charles Cooper : "That a 'nobody' like... Charles Cooper: "That a 'nobody' like Raed wound up providing a more nuanced view of his world -- better than either the authoritarian inanities of the Iraqi information minister or the Geraldo-besotted dispatches of the commercial television networks -- testifies both to the specific value of Weblogging as well as to the broader impact the Internet may yet have around the world." [Scripting News] .< 1:38:50 AM >Deep Thinking about Weblogs ' Everybody seems to have one and yet a weblog feels more like a pet rock than a revolution. We are particularly reminded of the excitement that accompanied the explosion of home pages in the early days of the Web. We suspect that, like home pages, the appearance of so many weblogs isn't the interesting part. The interesting part is, rather, the pervasive use of a set of technologies.' .< 1:27:33 AM >The Register: Google to fix blog noise problem 'Google is to create a search tool specifically for weblogs, most likely giving material generated by the self-publishing tools its own tab.' .< 1:24:44 AM >How the GOP struck gold with its permanent "war on terrorism" Demos are hoping that a collapsing economy will doom Bush like it did his father. But his dad didn't have Osama bin Laden in his corner -- or Karl Rove. [Salon] .< 1:07:03 AM >Is You Wicked? "Did they ever catch the people who sent Tampax through the mail?" |
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