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  • Play Pacman

    Ok. so Im playing with the Google Gadget things.. but this is sort of fun.


    The odd thing though is that the sizing doesn’t want to work…odd.

  • Google Gadgets

    Just what the world needs, more plugins for webpages…although having said this the flexibility with some of these is pretty good.

  • The future of political blogging is here

    I’m surprised none of the A-List picked up on this.

    David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative (Tory) Party in the UK has launched his own blog, and to make it more interesting, it’s a video blog at that.

    And dare I say, it’s pretty damn good.

    Sure, I’m not interested as an Australian in what he’s got to say, but format wise it’s 100%. I’ve watched a couple of the videos, and my reaction: it’s not just spin: Cameron comes over as being natural and honest. It’s a great step forward in terms of political campaigning. Recommended.

     

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  • Watching Big Brother

    James Martin has launched Google WatchDog with this post.

    It’s too late James and Lynn. Google already is big brother, or didn’t you get the memo 🙂 Looks like another blog to add to Bloglines.

  • Technorati just made spam blogging a whole lot easier

    Steve Rubel: Technorati Intros Smarter Blog Search Feeds

    Spam blogging just got a whole lot easier. Why rip a feed or two when you can just get a smart topic feed from Technorati on auto pilot and without the need for an account. OK, so they’re part feeds. Guess what, the parsing part from the link to ripping all the content is actually very easy…and no, I’m not doing it, I’m not a programmer, but I know where to look and I’ve seen it work. Having said that though maybe I should set up a Popurls.com style site, after all they all seem legit trading on links going elsewhere, all nicely on autopilot as well. The sky is the limit topic wise, after all, I’d just run a RSS aggregation plugin for WP pulling a Technorati smart feed on the given topic…tweak it so the template is nice, then presto 🙂

     

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  • Germany menaced by giant bug

    bug

    The Register reports on a giant bug menacing the German countryside.

    The really odd thing for me is that it would appear that the satellite images were scanned. Scanned? weren’t they digital images to start with? is there a giant factory of Google Earth workerbees scanning satellite imagery for our enjoyment?

    Odd.

  • Is China at War with the United States

    China Attempted To Blind U.S. Satellites With Laser: Defense News.com

    If China has indeed fired lasers at US Satellites, then wouldn’t this be normally considered an act of war?

    If the US is indeed turning a blind eye to this, then what else is the US Government not sharing?

  • MySpace could be worth $15 billion US in 3 years

    This is nuts. Beyond nuts. Interesting usage figures though, given I’ve read elsewhere lately that the 100 million users figure for MySpace is rubbish due to inactive accounts etc, Reuters claims MySpace has 90 million active users. Amazing, but still a crazy valuation.

  • Scoble launches the Scoble Show

    The Scoble Show.

    Got to say it’s pretty damn good. Scoble avoids the mistakes of many in podcasting by keeping the interviews fairly short and punchy so they don’t drag on (like that horrid podcast he was on with Arrington and Om over at Techcruch the other day). I’ve only watched a few so far (naturally the interview with Jeremy Wright was my first choice) but so far it bides well.

     

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  • 34 million blogs in China: report

    Interesting figures from the China Daily: 34 million blogs in China, but 70% haven’t been updated in over a month. 17 million bloggers in China. 75 million Chinese read blogs (for memory there’s about 110 million people on the internet in China, so thats a big figure).

    Technorati tracks approx 50 million blogs. Still don’t believe me that the sum total of the blogosphere is a whole lot bigger than what Technorati tracks?!