Keeping track
 Sunday, August 31, 2003
The Art of RSS
Chris Heathcote: "Welcome to the London art aggregator. I provide an RSS feed of art exhibitions in London today. You'll be updated with new openings, and warned when exhibitions are about to finish." Sean Bonner: "The sixspace mailing list is now available in an RSS feed. I'm pretty sure that makes us the first art gallery to provide RSS feeds of both the news section AND the mailing list."...
[Lockergnome's RSS Resource
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 Friday, August 29, 2003
Europe's rudest tourists
Catering workers rank the Germans and the British as the rudest customers in the world, according to a survey.
[BBC News | Europe | World Edition
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 Saturday, August 23, 2003
Another Amazon Patent
Hey, the Europeans may be as dumb as the Americans when it comes to granting patents. The European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich has recently granted a patent to Amazon which covers all computerised methods of automatically delivering a gift to a third party. This patent is a descendant of the famous "Amazon One Click Patent" granted in the USA, but with a broader claim scope than the original US version. Read the rest of it. Yeah. There's no prior...
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog
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BBC online probe to begin
The BBC's websites contain more than two million pages and reach up to 43% of the UK population each month...
[BBC News | Technology | World Edition
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Blair on message with e-mail
Downing Street sets up the Prime Minister's first public e-mail address following a campaign by a fellow Labour MP.
[BBC News | Technology | World Edition]

Now how long before things eventually progress this far in good old Germany...

Next year? 
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 Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Kaywa - another blog company
"KAYWA Ltd is a privately held company based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by a group of weblog enthusiasts in 2003, KAYWA offers products that make publishing on the Internet effortless, mobile and personal. KAYWA believes in the power of weblogs to fundamentally change communication patterns and social networks. It is our mission to help this transition towards a more expressive Internet by creating products that empower users to publish. With KAYWA, users can finally write back."
(via KAYWA AG) [Roland Tanglao's Weblog
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Heat Death Toll Forces a Shocked France to Question Itself
The staggering number of deaths in France is finally drawing the nation's attention to who died and how.
By John Tagliabue. [New York Times: International
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Religious Revival and the Rise of the New Right
Christian fundamentalism and the concept of Judeo-Christianity has taken over political and religious discourse in Hungary.
[Telepolis News
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Italian Puzzle: The Land That Doesn't Seem to Fit
In garnering more attention than respect, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, has mirrored his country's standing among Western nations.
By Frank Bruni. [New York Times: International
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Finland: Information Economy, Multilingualism, and Public-Private Partnership
"Finland is seen as a pioneering adapter and an important research centre of the new technology. " But you know you've been in Finland too long when ... [Blogalization Community
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 Monday, August 18, 2003
 Sunday, August 17, 2003
The Mob of Rome
And an e-party on the Avenida Paulista. [Blogalization Community
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 Thursday, August 14, 2003
Italy's lottery jackpot won
Wednesday's lottery draw produces a winner after mounting suspense for the biggest ever jackpot in Europe. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition
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Loglezer: a One Page Aggregator
You need to understand a bit of Dutch for this ...
(via Adam Curry
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 Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Prague Spring
The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. Posters, pamphlets, social protest material. 'In the morning hours of August 21, 1968, the Soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia along with troops from four other Warsaw Pact countries. The occupation was the beginning of the end for the Czechoslovak reform movement known as the Prague Spring. This web site contains material from the days immediately following the invasion, and they reflect the atmosphere in Czechoslovakia at the time: tense, chaotic, uncertain, full of pathos, fear, and expectation... '

Related :- the Berlin Wall and East Side Gallery; A Concrete Curtain: The Life and Death of the Berlin Wall; Szoborpark in Budapest, with its gigantic Cold War-era statues.
[MetaFilter
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 Monday, August 11, 2003
EU regulations to control web cookies
European laws due to come into force by the end of October will shake up the way businesses are allowed to use cookies on their Web sites.
[The Register
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 Saturday, August 09, 2003
Italy Slides Into First Recession in 11 Years
The conflict in Iraq hurt consumer confidence and a sharp rise in the euro sapped strength from the Italian economy. By The New York Times. [New York Times: International
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East on the Danube: Hungary's Tragic Century
You know immediately when you arrive in Hungary from Austria that you have crossed from one historical zone, one domain of experience, into another... By Richard Bernstein. [New York Times: International
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EU vs Microsoft: The US reaction
Some interesting US reaction to the EU's verdict on Microsoft, delivered yesterday, is summed up at the Washington Post today. A general thought is that even a $3bn fine - the absolute maximum fine the EU can levy on Microsoft for its abuses of monopoly power - would be good news for the software company. Why? They've got a cash pile of $49bn. The EU could do its worst (which, incidentally, it is unlikely to do anyway) and it would be little more than an irritation at Redmond. Once the EU hands down the fine, Microsoft can pay up and get on with business as usual. There's a quote I like from Forbes's Dan Ackman: "For Microsoft, the long-anticipated charges create a sense of deja vu..." [onlineblog.com]

Any bets?

 
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 Thursday, August 07, 2003
The EU Constitution
The proposed European Union Constitution will lead to a massive welfare state? Or, "Compare and Contrast the United States Constitution with that of the EU" From a cursory glance at the depth of the document, this detail-oriented Constitution is entirely alien to one such as myself used to the broad Madisonian brushstrokes of the United States Constitution. What are the merits and/or limits of the 'broad' versus 'detailed' Constitution? Is the EU taking on more than a government should by stating provisions for general welfare and environmental awareness? Or, is the EU looking ahead in ways that others have not? [MetaFilter
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Behind the Times
[Telepolis News
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Italy's lotto rises to $70m
The Italian lottery jackpot grows to a European record of $70m as yet another draw fails to secure a winner. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition
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 Wednesday, August 06, 2003
EU gives 'last chance' to Microsoft
The EU executive says the US software giant has a final chance to comment before action is taken against 'market abuses'. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition]

Any bets on whether they'll succeed? (I mean the EU in managing to bring MS to actually comply)

I'd say the chances are slim. 
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Scorching Weather Brings Damage and Death to Europe
Unusually high temperatures and a summer-long dearth of rain have wrought serious damage to crops and weather-related deaths throughout Europe. By Frank Bruni. [New York Times: International
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 Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Ryanair
Ryanair profits grow by 12%. Europe's largest low-cost airline reports a 44m euro profit but suffers an increase in the percentage of empty seats on its flights. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition]

I don't know how Ryanair can fly me to London for 29 Euros or less and be profitable. Actually... I don't care, I just hope they will continue. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog
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 Saturday, August 02, 2003
More UK war graves vandalised
Vandals damage the graves of British and Commonwealth soldiers in the latest of a spate of attacks on World War I cemeteries in northern France. [BBC News | Europe | World Edition
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 Friday, August 01, 2003
UK bans iPod gadget
A gadget that lets you send songs from Apple's iPod music player to an FM radio has fallen foul of UK laws.
[BBC News | Technology | World Edition
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An open letter to Silvio Berlusconi
The Economist publishes an Open Letter to the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and asks some inconvenient questions... [hebig.org/blog
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