| Blogger `exposes' annoying quote abuse (AP via Yahoo! News) Isn't it "funny" how something can "really annoy" you for ages and then you discover via "the Internet" that the same thing "really annoys" thousands of "other people," too? The blight that Bethany Keeley exposes on her "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com) is of a benign sort, of course, nothing like global warming or endangered wildlife. us.rd.yahoo.com |
National Guard Monitors Web Sites, Blogs (The News & Advance) WASHINGTON -Seven days a week, National Guardsmen search the Internet for military secrets -- everything from nuclear weapons to intel on terrorists. The 10-person team, known as the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, isn't hacking al-Qaida computers or snooping around foreign military databases. Instead, they are scouring U.S. military and government Web sites, soldiers' blogs, MySpace and other ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
the Advocate (New Orleans Times-Picayune) Harry Shearer is one of those multifaceted personalities whose career has always been characterized with lots of dashes and slashes; he is an actor/writer/comedian/political satirist/ broadcaster/commentator/blogger -- among other job titles. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Blogging Pioneers to Break Apart (The Houma Courier) Blogging pioneer Six Apart is breaking apart from LiveJournal, another trailblazer that helped bring online journals to the masses. The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart's sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Singing McCain’s Praises, or Joking? For a while, it was not clear whether the videos of the “McCain Girls,” a trio of singing and dancing campaign supporters, were meant to be sincere or ironic. nytimes.com |