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From The Wall Street Journal: (Thanks, Harvey!) LONDON — Britain's famously competitive newspapers have a new battleground: Google. Newspapers are buying search words on Google Inc. so that links to their Web sites pop up first when people type in a search. The Daily Telegraph, for example, bought the phrase “North Korea Nuclear Test” after [...]
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Robert Niles of Online Journalism Review on the deserved troubles being experienced by some “citizen journalism” operations. An excerpt: Fake grassroots don't grow. It seems an obvious statement. But it remains lost on too many Internet entrepreneurs, who will lay down plenty of fertilizer, but who seem unwilling to plant actual seeds. Last week, a [...]
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U.S. intel boss John Negroponte says al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan. Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar says his fighters helped Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in 2001. The rat-a-tat-tat from an AC-130 gunship failed to take out any al Qaeda terrorists in Somalia. (All stories from BBC News)
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I was peacefully watching the Daily Show just now, watching Jon Stewart mock the Iraq surge policy, when the show went to commercial. Bizarrely, an ad comes on for some food hamper delivery company's 2007 catalog that starts with a Christmas reference (which confused the hell out of me; I thought the ad had run horribly late) and [...]
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From washingtonpost.com: Iraq is at a violent and “precarious juncture,” while al-Qaeda is significantly expanding its global reach, effectively immune to the loss of leaders in battle, Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte told Congress yesterday. He also warned that the Taliban is mounting a vigorous insurgency in Afghanistan, that Pakistan has become a [...]
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As you have no doubt heard, Dubya has decided on a troop surge in Iraq. For a retrospective on that, this CTV.ca story has the video attached. Here's the text of Dubya's address to his nation. Reaction today was not kind to the president. :) From the NYT: Bush's plan for Iraq runs into opposition [...]
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Two twenty-somethings are talking about the great technological divides between generations and broke it down thusly: “There's the boomers, the mom generation, and us — the MySpace generation.”