Blogging No Big Deal, au contraire

Gallup: blogs no big deal

The Gallup Poll organization released a survey of Internet users showing "reading blogs" at the bottom of a list of 13 options. However, Gallup reported at least 10% of U.S. Web users "frequently" or "occasionally" read Web logs, according to a report of the poll by Editor and Publisher. But nearly 60% "never" look at blogs.

Riiiiiight. So says a report done by Gallup.

Mail and News Are Main Internet Attractions Gallup Poll News

Really no biggee. And lets not forget that Gallup only speaks about the American public. Their 'internet users" should be qualified as "American internet users".

The lack of interest is not slowing blogs' growth. Dave Sifry, founder of Technorati.com, reported his Web log service is seeing 75,000 new blogs a day. "Technorati currently tracks 27.2 million Web logs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 5.5 months." He reported as many as 9% of new blogs are spam or in some way bogus rather than useful content.

The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.

Blogosphere still expanding

The blogging phenomenon continues to be one of the Net's brightest stars Around half of bloggers continue to post three months after creating their blog. 10 per cent keep their blogs updated weekly or more often.

So according to Gallup 10% of their American users view blogs, and 10% of us update our blogs, and it is a growing phenomena around the world. So that seems to contradict the nay sayers at Gallup. Of course Gallup being a commercial corporate shill is more interested in the WWW as a source of buy and sell.

Gallup: Blogs Catching On With Web Users

By E&P Staff

Published: February 06, 2006 2:20 PM ET
NEW YORK In the Web universe, how popular are blogs? A report today by The Gallup Poll organization on its latest surveys could be interpreted two ways.

On the one hand, asked to rank their most frequent online activity, Americans who use the Web (now 73% of the population) placed "reading blogs" at the bottom of its list of 13 choices.

But on the other hand: blogs barely existed until recently and now fully one in five Americans say they consult blogs "frequently" or at least "occasionally." That 20% figure trails instant messaging (28%), auctions (23%), videocasts and downloading music (22%).

E-mailing still heads the list at 87%, followed by checking news and weather (72%) and shopping and travel planning (both at 52%).

In terms of blog activity, there is a slight gender gap (24% of men and 17% of women read them), and of course a generation gap, with 28% of those 18 to 29 using them and only 17% of those over 50.

Nearly 60% still say they "never" look at blogs.

Gallup reported big jumps in those paying bills online and making travel plans.

A total of 1,013 adults were surveyed nationally for the poll

Blogs are part of the growing access to the internet, and one form of information sharing. Technocrati reports that blogging is expotentially one of the greatest growing way's that ordinary non techie types gain access to speaking on the WWW.

Blogosphere balloons

Blogging is rapidly becoming one of the favourite online activities. The Technorati website says it is currently tracking just under 19 million blogs.

Furthermore, the practice shows no sign of diminishing. According to Technorati, the number of blogs is doubling every five months and has been doing so for the past three years. This makes the blogosphere thirty times the size it was in 2002.

Although blogging, like many Internet trends, started as an English language activity, it is increasingly spread around the world. The Technorati survey says that there are around 70,000 new blogs started every day - or one a second. In particular, the Chinese have taken to blogging in a big way with some of the biggest growth seen in the Chinese version of MSN Spaces and the native blogcn.com.

Given the well-publicised dangers of stepping out of line in the People's Republic, it is amazing that so many Chinese citizens are willing to put their thoughts online where they can be tracked.

The level of activity of these online scribblers is extraordinary. Somewhere between 700,000 and 1.3 million posts are made each day. That is about 33,000 posts per hour or about 9.2 posts per second.

Blogging is seen as allowing the ordinary citizen to make their voice heard alongside the big companies that control the world's media. Some 50 per cent of bloggers talk about companies at least once a week with 63 per cent of readers believing them to be a trustworthy source or product information. Although many companies provide corporate blogs, 80 per cent of people prefer not to get the executive view. They would rather read a blog from an employee.

For instance since 1997 I have been online posting articles, email discussions, creating and using email listserves for discussions, creating speciality web pages, helping develop sites, etc. etc. and for over a year I too have been blogging since it fits in well with the WYSIWYG that the web has been all about. WYSIWYG systems have allowed those with little or no coding, HTML, experience to now access the web with their thoughts.

The WWW has always been about interactivity, and communications about convergence and cross platform use. There geeky enough for ya. What that means to BCE the corporate owner of Bell Canada, Globe and Mail, CTV, etc. is different than what it means to you or me. Which is why Gallup voice of corporations like BCE, says its not important that the web is now accessed interactively, not passively, Welcome To The Blogosphere: Population 27.2 Million And Growing

For us ,the users , the cyber citizens of the internet convergance and cross platform use is having a web page, email, and blogging, having a pay pal account and doing business on e-bay or buying from Amazon .com, reaing our news online rather than subscribing to a paper, researching using a search engine, downloading information, music, files, uploading information and playing games.

Whew no wonder we never get out much.

Disrupto-Memes: First fired for blogging, now quit to blog

Will Richardson, author of Weblog-ed: The Read/Write Web in the Classroom has announced that he's quitting his job as a school teacher to focus on his popular edu-blog and blog evangelism. For what it's worth, a Jux2 search finds the following numbers: "fired for blogging" Google (69,000) Yahoo! (90,300) MSN (18,658) vs. "quit to blog" Google (34) Yahoo! (3)

David Wiley of OpenContent.org put it nicely in a recent speech to the US Department of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education: as global culture shifts towards information and learning being available on demand, mobile, personalized, remixable and sharable - traditional institutions are threatened by declining relevance. Wiley notes the growing importance of private certification as part of this. I would contend that this may even be the case only for people like Will Richardson (above) - perhaps some of the most high-energy, innovative and engaged people in traditional institutions like education.

My favorite headline for this story though is this one:

Blogs Replicating Like Tribbles On Heat

The Trouble With Tribbles

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Tag You're It

A great article here on a quickie tagging solution with video instruction on easing the use of tags. Watch Beths video on this page and you can add a tagging bookmarklet to your tool bar to create your tags. No more cut and paste into the HTML coding on your web page or blog. Wow saves you all that time you waste trying to tag. And eating your fingers down to the nub as Marshall Kirkpatrick says

I think that it makes a big difference whether people are employing tags themselves or just using blog software that supports categories. That's part of why I encourage people to use a bookmarklet to make such tagging easier. Why doesn't Technorati offer a bookmarklet like that? The blogosphere is full of people who would rather eat their own fingers than add the HTML for each tag link with a rel=tag at the end of each post. Requiring them to do so is a real limit to the specificity of tags being applied by non technical bloggers. That's part of why people like WYSIWYG blog editors.

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Chavez Denounces Anti-Semitism

Earlier this year the Zionist press and their right wing synchophants in North America released a scurrilous accusation that President Chavez of Venezuela made Anti-Semitic remarks in his Christmas speech. To which I replied here.

Now here is the latest news about Chavez and the Jewish community in Venezuala.

Of course don't expect the likes of Colby Cosh to admit they were wrong, or that they failed in their journalistic duty to actually follow up the original accusations rather than just link and comment on them.

Chavez asks Jewish community in Venezuela to join social interest projects

VHeadline.com News Editor Patrick J. O'Donoghue writes: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has met with members of the Jewish Community in Venezuela, clarifying alleged anti-Semitic remarks made by the former last Christmas.

Confederation of Israeli Associations president, Fred Pressner says President Chavez Frias has been asked to extend his rejection of anti-Jewish remarks to other instances of government.

Pressner says the community is deeply concerned about racial remarks made in Venezuelan media.

The President is said to have been "receptive" to a petition to penalize discrimination in any of its forms, among which is anti-Semitism

According to Jewish community representatives, there have no differences with the Venezuelan government.

"President Chavez Frias was clear in attacking anti-Semitism during his national rendering of accounts at the National Assembly but we want this to filter down into all government instances."

The President has gone a step further requesting the Jewish community to collaborate or develop projects of social interest.

Speaking on Sunday, Chavez Frias criticized the opposition press for blowing the incident out of all proportions and insisting on supporting a policy of promoting co-existence between Israel and Palestine.

The Jewish community has condemned the originator of the scandal, the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Also see:

A Libertarian Defense of the Left Wing in Latin America

Chavez

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The Prophet of Death

For all those liberals who have blogged that we should understand Islam as a religion of peace and understanding, one that is tolerant and blah, blah, blah I submit for your consideration these two items.

Do Dogs Have More Love For The Messenger Of Allah Than Do Muslims?
Feb 07, 2006

By Abu Haitham Al-Hijazee

As the Muslim world erupts over the blatant act of ridicule and blasphemy by European newspapers against the Prophet (pbuh), Islamic history scholar Abu Haitham Al-Hijazee turns to the times past for answers and weighs in on this latest attack on Islam.

Reviling and insulting Allah or His messenger is very serious offense that carries the death penalty. If such offense is committed by a Muslim, he becomes an apostate because of it and his blood becomes lawful immediately and no apology or repentance is accepted from him. The verdict of Allah is very clear.

Two killed as Afghans stage new protests over cartoons

State Religions, organized religion that carries with it the power of the State and is the State is the very enemy of freedom. All monothiestic religons are by their nature state religions, they have come into existance by the suppresion of peoples spiritual beliefs, rites and customs. They justify intolerance, torture and death of those who opposed them. They have grown by the forced conversion of peoples. All will be assimilated. Those who oppose religious tyranny cannot defend Islam in the name of freedom of religion.

Anarchists demand freedom from religion. No God! No Master! is our watchword. "Ni dieu ni maître!"--Neither God nor master!--is a phrase coined by the socialist Auguste Blanqui in 1880, when he published a journal by that name. It became an anarchist slogan.

Religion is Tyranny.

Nature created neither servants nor masters. I want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
La Nature n‘a fait ni serviteurs ni maîtres, je ne veux donner ni recevoir d‘ordres.

In this I find myself once again agreeing with Christopher Hitchens. Who has mocked religion on more than one occasion himself. Truth is blasphemous. Blasphemy is truth.

Also see:

Looney Toons

Blasphemy is in the Eye of the Beholder

Ibn Khaldun 14th Century Arab Libertarian

Jewish Anti-Zionism

The Need for Arab Anarchism

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Edmonton Left Out In The Cold, Again

Redmonton did not get any representation in Cabinet. None. Zip. Nada. Sorry but Rona Ambrose does not count as being from Edmonton. As I wrote in my comment to Daveberta;

She is not from Edmonton, she is from Spruce Grove. Damn hyphenated ridings. Well ok she lives in Edmonton Strathcona but she represents Spruce Grove that's like saying the MP from Airdrie represents Calgary or the guy from Oshawa represents Toronto. Hmm yeah the Harper did do that to.

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A One Day Wonder

Well was the optics and bad press that Harper got over Emerson, Fortier, and the Liberals are trying to pin him with O'Conner, worth it. Of course this is parlimentary politics folks. The elections are over. The rules of the game change. Now you are a minority in the house you play by the house rules. Which is maintian power, build a government and governing party and perpare for the next election.Maintain droits as the RCMP say.

That's what this was all about. However it's not a one day wonder or a one day issue.A Tory Radio Talk Show host from Ottawa on Duffy's show on CTV said its going to last four days and that's it. Smug bastard. One day headline or four day headline, it will be a matter that will get raised again in Question Period.

And then Harper ran away from reporters today, avoiding the traditional entering the house photo op. I guess this is the change he brings to the house. Secrecy and paranoia. Tommorow cabinet hides at Meech Lake and plots its strategy.

My what arrogance, truly a sign of being the ruling party, the government. Even after twelve years out of power, the arrogance comes back so quickly. And those who thought the politics of arrogance and entitlement were limited to the Liberals, failed to appreciate they are the trappings of power of any party that makes government under our British Parlimentary System. They may run on being from the outside Ottawa, but once in power the game is to stay in power.

And as much as I would like to agree with Blogging Tory Greg Staples, call me cyncial but all the disappointed BT's and Conservatives will swollow their dissapointment, idealism, and vote Conservative again, cause well the ends justify the means.

Political Capital

Conservative strategists have called this controversy a "one-day wonder". It better be. This better have been the one-day the Conservatives play games like this because a large chunk of us voted for politics as unusual and if we don't get it now don't think we won't look elsewhere.

This Ottawa Citizen has the funniest headline which gives new meaning to ironic. Followed by the carefully neutral headline of the Star Phoenix. Followed by the understaement of the year, on the front page of the Montreal Gazette.


And then there is the Ottawa Sun which sums it up nicely, they don't care whose in power as long as Canada's capital doesn't move to Calgary, like all the headoffices have.




Here's Todays other papers and their Headlines.

It will be more than a one day blow over.


Toronto Star

Shock and awe, Tory style

Feb. 7, 2006. 01:00 AM

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government has landed in Canada with a series of defiant bangs. SusanDelacourt and Sean Gordon report.












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Icky Icke

David Icke is a new age anti-semitic conspiracy nut. He is clever in that in his new age, feel good, self help books he hid his message in the final chapters. A sort of final chapter on the final solution.

His conspiracy theory is that the world is controled by the Illuminati, nothing new there. And the Illuminati is of course the ruling class and the bankers. ditto again. And of course many of them are Jewish. ditto, ditto, ditto.

And then taking off from science fiction writer and cult pop psychologist extrodinaire L. Ron Hubbard, whose Illuminati theory was that they were Thetans from space, Ickes says that his Illuminati are actually 4000 year old lizards from space! Yoiks shades ofthe sci-fi TV show V!

But while he believes in 4000 year old 12ft. Lizards he also promotes Anti-Semitism.

Beset by lizards

David Icke, one-time goalkeeper, TV presenter and self-proclaimed Son of God, has re-invented himself as a travelling guru. Would Canada take seriously his warnings of power-hungry extraterrestrial reptiles or would he be dismissed as an anti-Semitic bigot?

Jon Ronson
Saturday March 17, 2001
The Guardian

Then when I googling news the other day I found this, which just goes to show you how off the wall this Icke is. WAS HITLER A ROTHSCHILD?

And of all places it was on French Indymedia. See what we have to put up with in the name of free speech. (actually we don't its just lazy moderation)

Of course he is in good company with folks like this

Of course the real Illuminati,the secret chiefs, the hidden masters, have been around a lot longer than 4000 years. And they aren't 12 ft. Lizards. Nor Thetans.

They have been controling humans to their own ends since the begining of recorded time. It is well known that we are their servants and always have been.

Apparently they decided to show themselves the other day in Brussels head of the EU and next site of the WTO Meetings. Not far from Davos.

Reuters - Sun Feb 5, 10:38 AM ET

People display their cats during an international feline beauty contest in Brussels February 5, 2006. The contest took place with an exhibition of the cutest cats from all over Europe. REUTERS/Yves Herman

But again, after a long time of this, the cats sat down and said, "Oh Great Bast, we love this world but we are children of a god and that makes us godlings. Make us someone to serve us!" Bast laughed at their presumptuousness, but their request amused her so She made the cats a people to serve them. The servants of cats walked on two legs, all the better to have their arms free to carry a cat so that it did not dirty its paws upon the ground. At rest, the creatures folded neatly at the hips and knees to make a platform on which a cat could sit. The creatures had fingers which would tickle and stroke a cat and a voice with which to worship the cat and tell it how beautiful it is. And for a long time all was well. HOW BAST CREATED CAT-KIND

Chinese legends say that cats were put in charge of the world and had the power of speech. The cats soon delegated this job to humans so that felines could laze about. That is why cats can no longer speak and why they wear supercilious expressions when they see us scurrying about!

FELINE FOLKTAILS - CATS IN FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION
Copyright 1994, 1995, Sarah Hartwell

Oh yes and Cats just hate Lizards.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Raven

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door.
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore."
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting--
"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! -- quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted---nevermore!

The other day my partner said something I found very worriesome. Something that had been tapping at the back of my mind like Poe's Raven.

We were watching Question Period and she said, the unspeakable, the thought that dare not speak it's name.....she said " I think Paul Martin is planning a comeback".

I of course dismissed this out of hand, despite that damned tap, tap, tapping of the Raven in my mind.

I dismissed it with a shudder. Because I knew that the optics of his stepping down but remaining party leader were Deja Vu.

"Trudeau did it" she said. That did it. Now a ghostly shudder ran up my spine, that spectral dread when you know those dangerous thoughts are forming a solidity in reality.

"So maybe thats what Martin is going to do." she insisted on reveling in her Ravenesque toying with me.

I dismissed it. I dismissed it as too horrible to face. Like a picture of Dorian Grey.

"Nah he's too tired,to worn out, besides Shelia won't let him", I said with just a hint of shudder and falseto in my voice. Dismissed. Done. That horrible thought locked away.

I thought I had gotten the damned thing safely locked away in the basement with my Cask of Amontillado.

When what should appear in my email but a column by my Left Coast pal Bill Tielman. He writes a column in 24 hours The Sun's Vancouver daily free paper on the Left Coast.

Quickly I ran downstairs and found the door ajar the damned Raven perched on the top of door mantle and the cask well drained.

So here is his column because tommorow it will probably be gone off the 24 hours website.

At least he could have left me some of the Amontillado, rather than the damned bird.

Hi all - here is today's 24 hours newspaper column - my look at whether Liberal Leader Paul Martin might replace Paul Martin, as all the leading contenders for the Liberal leadership find other things to do.

Given the shocking move by former federal Liberal cabinet minister David Emerson to switch parties yesterday and join the Conservative cabinet, the opening quote in today's column is even more appropriate, as is the idea of replacing yourself!

Regards,

Bill Tieleman West Star Communications

February 7, 2006

Will Martin replace Martin?

By BILL TIELEMAN

Ambition never comes to an end.

- Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia

A Liberal prime minister from Quebec is defeated by a new western-based Conservative leader, who wins a narrow minority government.

The outgoing prime minister resigns as Liberal leader and the party plans a leadership convention. But the new Conservative government is soon in deep trouble with its controversial policies.

The opposition parties combine forces to defeat the suddenly unpopular Tories but the Liberals are still leaderless going into an unexpected election.

Lacking a dynamic new leader, the Liberals beg the former prime minister to lead them into the election. Still sitting as a Montreal MP, he accepts their draft.

It's the story of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Joe Clark in 1979-1980.

But is it also the story of Paul Martin and Stephen Harper in 2005-2006?

As the top Liberal leadership candidates drop out, the odds of Martin replacing himself as leader increase.

And Liberal dissidents note that Paul Martin did not resign as Liberal leader, instead merely giving former Defence Minister Bill Graham his parliamentary but not party duties.

They also see that the Martin forces which pushed Prime Minister Jean Chretien out of power still control the party machinery. Martin's chief of staff Tim Murphy was reportedly slated to be Graham's top aide - until some party officials strongly objected.

Even non-Liberals like ex-Reform Party strategist Rick Anderson think Martin may return.

"There may be some pressure for him to come back," Anderson told CBC TV after the election. "The result wasn't quite as negative as seemed to be likely, and maybe he moved a little bit hastily."

The party has a problem after Liberal frontrunner Frank McKenna, the former New Brunswick premier and ambassador to the U.S., and ex-cabinet ministers Brian Tobin, John Manley and Allan Rock all declined to run. Did they sense a fix?

Other leadership candidates are flawed. Belinda Stronach, a former Conservative Party leadership challenger, is little more than the Paris Hilton of Canadian politics, minus the video.

Scott Brison, another turncoat Tory, also ran for the Conservative leadership before jumping to the Liberals.

MP Ken Dryden, the former Montreal Canadien goalie, is well-known but a wooden speaker lacking leadership potential. New MP Michael Ignatieff is a Harvard professor who supports the war in Iraq and lived in the U.S. the last 30 years.

Some mischievous Liberals even suggest Bob Rae, the former Ontario NDP premier who is still despised in that province.

And none of them is a Quebec francophone, which many Liberals say is a requirement, since the party has alternated anglophone and francophone leaders.

That leaves names like Martin Cauchon and Stephane Dion - former cabinet ministers with less public recognition than losing Canadian Idol contestants.

It's Paul Martin time again - he's retired, he's rested and he's ready!

Bill Tieleman is president of West Star Communications.

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Google Redux

I received the following email from *Alexandre ISRAËL * as a comment on my Google articles here and here. I thought I would post it as I think it is an interesting alternative to boycotting Google, Yahoo, MSN, and those search engines which do the States dirty working by censoring the internet.

A campaign to demand that search engines make a commitment to provide a warranty for transparency and responsibility to their users, us. Very simple; Give Us A Reason To Trust You. Very libertarian.

I particularly liked this part of his statement

Ethics:

And as you know it: governments might help or block your access to a market. But governments are not Your Market: make your choices carefully. Maybe the market will forget your mistakes and your priorities. Maybe it won’t.

Hi,

After reading your article concerning Gogle stock crash, I wanted to put a
comment: But I do not want to create a Blogger account for that :-( . So I
decide to send you this mail and put a link to your article on my French
version blog :-).
After Google launched its new portal in China, I decided to start a blog to
claim for Ethical Search Engine, Now!

*Alexandre ISRAËL *

This is not boycotting: But it is an active call for answers.
I propose to ask every Search Engines' management to give us their position
on Ethics, to give us warranties and to describe us a modus operandi
concerning Transparency.

The message is quite simple: You take into accounts a few governements'
needs and priorities - We the users come to you to ask you to take into
account ours needs and priorities! The purpose is to make everybody happy -
in other words: to receive reasonable and acceptable answers from these
actors.

Please visit the Blog for more details. If you agree with the call, please
talk about it around you. And participate: Every idea is welcome.

English version hosted by WPcom: http://ethicalsearch.wordpress.com/

French version hosted by TPfrance: http://ethicalsearch.typepad.com/

Wiki (en & fr) hosted by CraoWiki :
http://wiki.crao.net/index.php/EthicalSearch

Do not hesitate to contact me, I will be glad to give you more information
about this. http://www.alexisrael.net/

I would encourage folks to check it out. Alexander is also supportive but critical of Reporters Sans Frontieres demand that governments, in this case the U.S. government, lobby for privacy rights for search engines and the internet.

As everyone will understand, my wish is to find a solution without having to call US government and legislators for help. I agree with the wish (that is why I signed) - but I do not believe in the choosen mean: I am sorry but I am not a believer! And I do not understand why I should talk to US governement to resolve a case in China.

Like I said I believe this is a Libertarian response to the issue of these private search engine companies who rely on us to use them to make them their profit, to demand that they answer to their users. Especially companies whose motto is 'Do No Evil'.

Internet spins spy web for China
The Age - 13 hours ago
GOOGLE has just announced its top search words or phrases, and the top 10 gainers, for last year. Top of the list was Janet Jackson, no doubt because users were keen to relive her costume "malfunction" during the previous year's Super Bowl.
Internet giants try to find a way to live and grow in China Asia Pacific Media Network
The Lesser of Two Googles: Reactions from the Worldwide Web AXcess News
Times Online - New York Times - eWeek - TIME - all 47 related »

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V for Vendetta

Well a year after I first blogged excitedly about V for Vendata the Movie it will be released March 17. I hope it can live up to the truly anarchist tale the comic was.
But wait this is Hollywood after all. Hollywood under Bush. Yep I think it might just make the transistion from comic to big screen with all its anarchist irony.




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