details of a global brain
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Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war
»Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members. […] Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which involves interception of the home and office telephones and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed in a document leaked to The Observer.« [blogdex] Read that secret document.
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Patent #6,525,747
Jeff Bozo strikes again: Two days ago the Amazon CEO recieved a patent: A method and system for conducting an electronic discussion relating to a topic. And here is another one that stinks: A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically organizing and tracking website content during its deployment This is ridiculous!
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New world order
Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Hans-Dietrich Genscher said: »We are entering an new era of world order. We will only be able to design the 21st century peacfully if the third world states recognize the agenda as evenhanded. […] We need diplomacy that translates between different schools of thought.« [tagesschau Newsticker]
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Google Labs: WebQuotes
It seems Google starts to implement first prototypes of something that explains the Pyra interest. WebQuotes seems to show who is quoting who and how. [WebDEV]
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Weblogs and paradigm shifts
Nicholas Jon seems be struggling about advocating weblogs in academic contexts. But reviewing when paradigm shifts happen he thinks it is just a matter of time: »I’ve found the adoption of weblogs, the sharing of information they allow, and the community building they foster to be difficult to push to critical mass – at least…
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Weblogs, Google – and Memex?
Dennis G. Jerz wrote an article for »Dichtung Digital«, which could light up the questions about what Google might want with Blogger. Quote: »Google initially began as a tool for rating annotations, according to Larry Page (inventor of Google’s eponymous PageRank): “We wanted to annotate the web–build a system so that after you’d viewed a…
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Funny Bush images
If you ever wondered where these funny Bush images come from … here they are!
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Threats, Promises and Lies
»Can we run a foreign policy in the absence of trust? The administration apparently thinks it can use threats as a substitute. Officials have said that they expect undecided Security Council members to come around out of fear of being on the “wrong” side. And Mr. Bush may yet get the U.N. to acquiesce, grudgingly,…
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ZOE 0.41
There’s a new version of ZOE – that indexing E-Mail client – that supports RSS (including 2.0) as well as the Blogger APi and MetaWeblog API. I don’tyet fully understand what this means, but it sounds like I should consider ZOE once more.
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RSS Link corrected
I just corrected the RSS link in the membership box. (Thanks to Marian) By the way, Marian: The RSS client I talked about is Syndirella. Maybe that is better than FeedReader.
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Free multilingual Unicode font
»Courtesy Typographi.ca, a pointer to Victor Gaultney’s Gentium project. Purpose: to build a free multilingual font to bring better typography to thousands of languages around the globe. I can think of no higher calling.« [Jarrett House North]
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Blogger & Google?
I don’t know what the Google people had in mind when buying Pyra/Blogger. But I can say what I have in mind: a system that integrates meta-structures blogdex, blogtree, myelin, geourl with publishing. Of course Google could use the weblogs to improve ranking. Of course Google could have done this without buying Blogger, couldn’t it?
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Ranking the ranks – endless love
Todays best search engines: Bush endless love on Yahoo Endless love Bush on ABCNews.com
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The New Mexico Channel ??
My german weblog took quite a number of hits. And I first thought this the system had an error. For some reason the post about the fabulous Bush & Blair persiflage made it onto the homepage of TheNewMexicoChannel.com in the »As seen on 7« list. Strange.
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First Principles
Bruce Tognazzini: »The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the…
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hierarchyTemplates Plug-In 0.5b
I have been working on a new release of the hierarchyTemplates Plug-In – version 0.5. The two main new features are a) JavaScript objects and b) Theme compatibility (the settings of this Plug-In will be exported with a Manila theme). I am looking for people who are willing to test this one. I used it…
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