Just when I thought Ford was getting smart ecologically, they announce they’re pulling the plug on their Think Electric Car. Well at least we have the Hybrid Ford Escape coming out next year.
Yesterday ICANN served VeriSign with a formal notice of breach of its accreditation agreement, seventeen instances of breaches to be exact. Seems they’ve been mishandling data from the WHOIS database under their control. ICANN has given VeriSign 15 days or they could lose the .com registry.
Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture? That’s the question discussed over at Slate in the form of a letter to the editor. The conclusion they came to was: “It’s a format designed for Unabombers or people, like the estimable Mickey Kaus, who don’t quite fit into pre-existing ideologies or political blocs
”. Don’t start sending a flame just yet, there are a few interesting and valid quotes like this one: “bloggers put themselves out there in far more ballsy fashion than many officially sanctioned pundits do, and they make fools of themselves more often, too
”. It’s a good read if your interested in how journalists and other media view this form of expression.
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