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Month: August 2004

  • Yahoo have a blog

    I’m impressed. Jeff Weiner, Senior Vice President, Search and Marketplace for Yahoo now has a blog. And it’s no ordinary PR blog either. In fact its quite good. Yahoo’s blog is called http://www.ysearchblog.com/. This follows Google, www.google.com/googleblog

  • Spirit Hints at Past Water, Opportunity Hits Rock Bottom

    Those two Rovers are at it again. No, not that. They are finding more and more evident of a history of liquid water on Mars. Fascinating stuff. “I would say that this is the most powerful evidence [of water] in the rocks at Gusev Crater,” said Steven Squyres, the rovers’ principal investigator from Cornell University.…

  • Ireland raises growth forecasts

    Good news for the Irish economy. How does it happen that it’s good PR to tell a country’s citizens that the government has succeeded in taking more money off them than it expected, and that the citizens think thats a good thing? Surely we should be up in arms that the government is getting all…

  • Teleportation goes long distance

    The BBC is reporting that physicists have carried out successful teleportation with particles of light over a distance of 600m across the River Danube. Here’s kind of how it works: Researchers from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Science used an 800m-long optical fibre fed through a public sewer system tunnel to…

  • Georgia offers S Ossetia pull-out

    Looks like Georgia may be getting cold feet, as the prospect of more conflict looms. But it appears that this might not be the end of things: Mr Saakashvili called his offer “the last chance for peace” in South Ossetia. A ceasefire deal reached last Friday has now been violated for five nights in a…

  • Big names in the blogosphere: Theodore Dalrymple

    Samizdata have the story: Theodore Dalrymple, sometime writer in the Spectator, is now blogging over at the Social Affairs Unit Weblog. The blog is another Perry De Havilland production. Nice work Perry. Dalrymple blogs under his real name, Dr Anthony Daniels.

  • We're All Journalists Now

    I missed this article by Dan Gillmor on Wired.com. As always Dan knows exactly what he is talking about here. A good interview and sounds like a good book.

  • Happy blogiversary to Eric Zorn

    Dan Drezner congratulates Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn on his 1 year blog anniversary. I never even realised the Chicago Tribune did blogs, so there you go. However Zorn’s blog appears not to have permalinks, which really annoys me. Zorn writes a column [Reg reqd] about his one year as a blogger, showing how blogging…

  • Backlog

    Lots of stuff to catch up on here guys, so hold onto your hats.

  • Kim Mathers' detention time in Macomb County jail

    The Star Magazine recently published an article informing the public about Kim Mathers’ detention time in jail. After two months of detention, Kim is feeling down. She’s been deprived of Marshall and Hailie’s visits. She feels abandoned and all alone.