Reports that Google have banned an anti gay marriage advertisement on Adsense for this site from a Christian group on the bizarre grounds that it promotes hate. Bizarre you may well ask? or am I defending their view point?
I?ɬ¢?¢‚Äö¬¨?¢‚Äû¬¢m not arguing one way or another on the content but Google search is a service which provides links to anti-semetic websites when you type in the word “jew”. The core issues is that you defend freedom of speech, or you don’t, but when you say you don’t allow “hate” sites, don’t allow them across the board. It is unjust that Google now plays god in deciding that one is somehow worse than the other, even more so given Googles previous howls of freedom of speech.
Holes are appearing in the once mighty Google facade everyday, and it runs the risk of becoming a victim of its own phenomenal growth. Bill Gates must be rubbing his hands with glee.

I’m on mixed thoughts about this one. Punctuation has its place but its far easier not to use it. Does dropping the capital I from reference of the Internet denigate its purpose as a description of something of value?

Wired> Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the “I” in internet. At the same time, Web becomes web and Net becomes net. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was.

Wired: Turning Slackers Into Workaholics

Researchers use a gene treatment to turn off monkeys’ dopamine receptors – yielding harder-working, more focused monkeys. Despite obvious applications in the corporate world, the scientists say they’re just trying to understand mental illness.

Wired is running a story that txt has been picked up as a tool amongst political campaigners in the US. Ive never understood why txt has taken so long to take off in the US? Just for once the rest of the world is far ahead here with the tool being used for years for political purposes and communications of all sorts in the rest of the developed world, except interestingly France, so a report I recently read stated.

After testing evey blog tool after the sun and then learning wordpress from the bottom up, my personal blog rises from the dead to return some 9 months after the last effort was abondoned due to The Blog Herald taking up far too much time. Ive missed the opportunity to blog on things non-blog related, particularly with an election this year in the United States. So my first resolution is to regularly blog here: I might not end up a Dave Winer in my posting stakes but atleast I’m back and ready to blog on matters non-blogging, with WordPress under the hood. Thanks to Michael Heilemann. for agreat template to work off.