TIME.com: Looking Around:
"All blogs must pass away."
Okay, apologies to the spirit of George Harrison for that one, but it sums up the purpose of today's post — to lay "Looking Around" to rest.
I started this blog in early 2007 as a way to get beyond the weekly newsmagazine format I usually work in and to [...]. (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Bruce Feiler's newest book, "America's Prophet", which examines the role Moses has played in American history and life, has been making some buzz recently. A number of blogs have shown interest in the book since its publication in October.Author Bruce Feiler blogged about the book for Huffington Post when it came out, and h (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself launched their closing arguments to ensure passage. On Friday, five different groups released polling numbers, television advertisements, robocalls and fact-checking data in an e (Read More)
Times Online:
Line & Length is not always the most optimistic of blogs (I am English after all) but I took heart from the top line given to a press release sent out by the ICC ahead of today's first one-day international."Clean sweep will send England to third place"That was the headline. And while third best in the world may be a fairly (Read More)
Times Online:
There’s a good something doing the rounds on the blogs at the moment, one that has a Friday kind of feeling to it.A number of blogs have been picking their Top 10/Top 20/Top 105 Vintage Sexist Adverts.I’m not sure ‘Top’ is the best way of describing them, but there’s such an astonishingly rich pool of material to pick from (Read More)
SFGate: Technology:
First, McAfee released a report concluding that the age of cyberwar is upon us. Now, current and former U.S. officials warn in a government report that we're not ready for such times. A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office released earlier...
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USATODAY.com - Technology Live:
A Web-enabled attack that's spreading lures via emails, blogs and corrupted search results is under way targeting Twilight fans. The bait: a chance to see a pirated copy of New Moon before the much-anticipated vampire movie's official Friday release. The...
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Huffington Post:
HuffPost in conjunction with Hopenhagen.org is sending one person to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to both represent concerns of people around the world and to report back daily as a HuffPost citizen journalist. To learn more about the contest and to throw your hat into the ring, check out the Hopenhagen (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- Deutsche Telekom AG said Thursday it will buy 100% of the shares in webhosting providers Strato AG and Strato Rechenzentrum AG from telecommunications company Freenet AG . The agreed price for the acquisition is 275 million euros ($410 million), payable in cash at closing of the deal, German-bas (Read More)
New York Times:
Sotheby’s is selling the renowned floral designer Robert Isabell’s collection of mid-20th-century furniture and sculpture, which includes some sublime oddities.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
PHOENIX — NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter."I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too much to cut through for a modest man from Missou (Read More)
Alpha Mummy - Times Online - WBLG:
Hurrah! AM has been listed as one of the top 10 UK mummy blogs in the UK, alongside other great popular blogs. Cision, a social media research company, has come up with a ranking based on algorithms, monthly uniques, etc etc. (If you're interested, read more about the methodology here.)The top 10 blogs are, in order of Cisi (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Rep. Don Manzullo (R-Ill.) moved to distance himself Tuesday from remarks he made to a local TV station in which he referred to Islam as a "savage religion."Manzullo opposes the plan to transfer Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in his Congressional district. In an interview with WREX in Rockford t (Read More)
Huffington Post:
NEW YORK — If you're engrossed in the tabloid Internet-gossip that has come to define the celebrity world, then John Mayer's latest CD, "Battle Studies," could provide enough fodder to fill at least a dozen Perez Hilton blog posts or at least one story in Us Weekly.The single, "Heartbreak Warfare," already has some speculat (Read More)