Review: Solar Sails ...The Space Review: 0 views since Monday, October 6, 2008 at 07:32 AMSolar sails have been a promising space transportation technology that has been just around the corner for decades. Jeff Foust reviews a book that examines how solar sails work and what missions they could be used for, if they're ever successfully flown.
Guest Comment: Google for Grown Ups ...Netimperative: 1 views since Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:48 AMWhen it comes to SEO, reputation is more important than relevance. Tim Ireland, Head of Online Marketing, Thoughtbubble.com, explains why he can get a top search result for a brand name within an hour?
Citizen journalists are at the gates ...Pretoria News: 1 views since Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 10:37 AMIn jeans and T-shirt, Nicholas Haralambous moves lightly on his sneakered feet beneath a larger-than-life projection of PowerPoint wizardry.
Religion at Crux of Battle ...The Morning News: 3 views since Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 03:35 AMThe punchline rocketed around the World Wide Web, inspiring smiles in pews friendly to Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee.
Marketing moves into the blogosphere ...Louisville Courier-Journal: 2 views since Monday, September 22, 2008 at 04:51 AMHe co-founded a network of blogs called Weblogs in 2003, before the medium cracked the mainstream, and then sold it to AOL in 2005, working there until last year. Today he is chief executive of Mahalo, a search engine guided by editors rather than algorithms.
Botswana: Weblogs, Citizen-Based Websites Expand Platform for Freedom of...AllAfrica.com: 2 views since Monday, September 15, 2008 at 05:17 AMPort- Elizabeth: Former Member of Parliament for Palapye, Boyce Sebetela, once suggested to people in his constituency that instead of relying only on kgotla meetings as a forum for consultation, they could also send messages to him by e-mail.
RATE THIS ARTICLE ...Crosswalk.com: 2 views since Friday, September 12, 2008 at 02:08 AMDaily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world. Baptist Press reports Hurricane Ike struck Cuba Sept. 8, pushing along the length of the island before briefly moving offshore and turning back onto land southwest of Havana.
Iran Parliament Approves Death Penalty for Apostasy Bill ...The Christian Post: 2 views since Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 01:51 PMThe Iranian Parliament voted in favor of a bill Tuesday that would punish apostasy with the death penalty, a human rights group reported. Lawmakers approved the bill with 196 votes in favor, seven against.
Mark Cuban: ?When I die, I want to come back as me? ...TechCrunch: 2 views since Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 10:32 PMTo round out the day's schedule at TechCrunch50 , Jason Calacanis interviewed Mark Cuban , the founder Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. He has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Calacanis' own Weblogs, Inc and Mahalo. Below are our notes, which try to capture a fast-paced exchange that included Cuban's ...
TC50: Angel Investors Say Now Is Their Time ...TechCrunch: 2 views since Monday, September 8, 2008 at 10:02 PMWe're in the middle of a wider economic downturn, there are no IPOs, funding is getting thin, but are the Angels unhappy? It looks like not. The downturn has sorted out the wheat from the chaff, the bar has been raised and they feel well-placed against even some of the biggest VC funds. Lucky, then, that working with startups remains a passion for these guys.
AOL May Try to Bring RSS and Lifestreaming Mainstream ...ReadWriteWeb: 2 views since Monday, September 8, 2008 at 09:15 PMRSS and centralized integration of activity data from multiple social networks are the kinds of technologies that only early adopters are interested in, right? AOL has the exact opposite kind of audience, does it not? Those assumptions appear to be facing serious challenge, if what TechCrunch says are leaked screen shots of a forthcoming AOL redesign are real. AOL is apparently going to ...
far) ahead ...Looking The Space Review: 3 views since Monday, September 8, 2008 at 06:11 AMEvery year at the AIAA/Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites in Logan, Utah, one of the highlights is the ?free evening? that is anything but.
Editorial: Turn down the heat ...The New Straits Times: 2 views since Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 08:16 PMIF there is one good thing to have emerged from the late-breaking phenomenon of "freedom of speech and expression" as now practised in this country, it has to be a clearer view of what some Malaysians think of other Malaysians. After three generations of careful media management -- indeed, of careful management of the entire national system so as to keep home truths at home, not riding roughshod ...
Turn down the heat ...The New Straits Times: 2 views since Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 08:03 PMIF there is one good thing to have emerged from the late-breaking phenomenon of "freedom of speech and expression" as now practised in this country, it has to be a clearer view of what some Malaysians think of other Malaysians.
Bloggers don't want to see ORblogs close ...The Oregonian: 2 views since Friday, September 5, 2008 at 01:09 PMORblogs , the Godzilla of Oregon blog round-up sites for the past five years, has shut down - at least for now. Loyal visitors of the web site, which aggregates news, posts and photos from hundreds of blogs around the state, got this surprise greeting Thursday: "ORblogs is Closed."
ORblogs no more? ...KATU Portland: 2 views since Friday, September 5, 2008 at 07:53 AMIt appears that ORblogs, a Web site that aggregates blogs from across Oregon - and which has been providing a stream of the state's blog consciousness for the past five years - will be shutting down, according to a message posted on the site on Thursday.