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He advise us to have a look at this clip in the end, which highlights the great achievements the US made in Iraq. Do I need to say more, what a …

According to a new study just released by the USC Annenberg Digital Future Project as much as 43 percent of Americans, who belong to online communities, feel just as strongly about their virtual worlds as their real-world counterparts. In addition, more than 40 percent of Internet users said that the Web helps them stay in touch with more friends and family.

Website’s: www.smartmobs.com & www.digitalcenter.org

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Mariska Veres, singer for the Dutch group Shocking Blue who had a worldwide hit with their song “Venus” in 1970, died aged 59, Dutch media reported.

In the late 1980s Shocking Blue also served as an inspiration for grunge band Nirvana who covered the band’s song “Love Buzz” on their 1989 debut album Bleach. More

Some infosheet for those interested in Digg.com

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In a small update, NASA reveals it next plan of how to reach the moon again which now is later than before.

I noted that the previous story is gone.
 

In two episodes [11 and 12] the Wordpress Podcast is interviewing Matt Mullenweg on several topics, including the next version of Wordpress. I noticed that the podcast has taken David Peralty on board, which has improved the input of the podcast I have to say.

Update: And again Russia offers joining the program. I sort of loose the order, because why after this announcement?

Wonder how they solve the designs for the more moving situations, but inspirational small ideas.

New release of stats of Wordpress (more info).
There is also an quite important security leak fix out.

AT& T prediction from 1993

Australia is in flames again with the hot summer coming up. Notice the record sofar, many recent big fires. Fires in Victoria in higher detail. Meanwhile camels are on the loose because of the draught.

We talked about torture before, however it is far more widespread (eg quite often in the United States) than people think. BBC recently made an grim documentary about it.
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For several elections, the Republican spin machine has tried to cast Bush and the GOP as the party of believing Christians as I show with a clip from Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly interviewing Pres. Bush. Several clips from interviews with former Bush insider David Kuo, however, show the flaws in this strategy. [link]

The above is from November 7th
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Nice overview by BBC.

Interesting rant. (via)

It Takes a Monopoly: For reasons that have little to do with the product, itself, Windows Vista simply can’t lose.

Windows Vista is finally here, a shadow of what it was once supposed to be, but here nonetheless, and now the pundits are holding forth on whether or not Microsoft’s new operating system will succeed. What a waste of good punditry: of course Vista will succeed, and those who think it will fail simply do not know what they are talking about.

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- image from blogologie.be which got already mashed up

Le Web 3.0 seems to have dissappointed quite a number of visitors. Loic sold out the conference for his own political carreer according to many. Why sold out? 3 politicians were prefered above actually knowledgable speakers who do speak english and do answer questions. Similar “traditional media” was given priority seats and a free ride (according to some), not really the acclaimed web mentality.
I read too that the IRC was struggling, laptops were suppose to be turned off (!). Meanwhile Loic called the conference an Unconference.

If 900 people sitting in a room listening to one person and not being able to ask questions is an unconference, then I’m a pink zebra

Online there are plenty more angry people.

In all, so what? Well, it’s lost enthousiasm, time, energy and might also damage congresses which might provide value for their visitors.
I guess this is a warning sign “how not to do it” for other conferences. The videos of le web 3 are provided by maarten schenk [thanks!]

Update: onemanandhisblog seems to cover most of the program.

Update 2: While some blogger politics is going on, Loic gives his view as well. Worth the read I think.

Soy is making kids ‘gay’

There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,” one of our most popular. Now, I’m a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless it’s organic. I state my bias here just so you’ll know I’m not anti-health food. The dangerous food I’m speaking of is soy. Soybean products are feminizing, and they’re all over the place. You can hardly escape them anymore.

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Breathtaking Spinning, turning the facts arround.

He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year. For seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, TIME’s Person of the Year for 2006 is you. Sure, it’s a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. But that’s what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There’s no road map, but 2006 gave us some ideas. It’s a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who’s out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you’re not just a little bit curious.