I hope Michael will forgive me for a little bit of news unrelated to politics, though it is in some ways loosely related. I just feel everyone should know about this amazing program.
I was just looking at some of the latest Digg headlines, when I noticed this article about a web crawling bot that scours the Internet looking for outbreaks of disease around the world.
Emily Gould’s piece about blogging for Gawker last year is a love-lorn letter to the business of blogging and what it can put a person through. A bit fluffy, but personal, entertaining, and worth a read. I particularly liked this bit: "you know, you really shouldn’t read the comments."
Good advice - unless you like to bicker, which I don’t.
Quite innocent examples, no? I can understand it that some people argue that teachers should behave on the Internet, but these examples aren’t exactly good examples of ‘wrongful behavior’ from a teacher. If one of them would make a porn movie and put it online, OK, but these examples are meant in a humorous way, mostly.
Good news for people (entrepreneurs!) like myself: increasingly more Americans are turning to the Internet for news. That’s, of course great because it means that more Americans are likely to read my drivel (and of course the high quality posts of my co-bloggers), but it’s also great because America often sets the trend globally. (more…)
The Washington Post says Yahoo may be acquired by Microsoft:
Yahoo was one of the first companies to popularize Web searching, and it still attracts one of the Internet’s largest audiences to its main Web site, an amalgamation of services and content that includes its search engine. However, the company has had trouble translating that audience into consistent financial performance.
I use a couple of browsers, but my favorite is Netscape. I’m aware of the fact that most Internet users don’t use Netscape - someone even called Netscape simple - but that’s fine with me: in fact, I like simple. My browser doesn’t have to be too complicated. It has to be reasonably fast, it has to be easy in use, and it has to be stable. (more…)
Opera Software has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission about the European branch of Microsoft because the company founded by Bill Gates ties “its Internet Explorer browser to the Windows operating system and is hindering interoperability by not following accepted web standards.”
The Norwegian Opera argues that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by doing so. It has “asked the commission to force Microsoft to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or to pre-install other browsers on the operating system.” (more…)
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