'Shocked' blogger wins Stuff's Blog Idol (Stuff)
The blogging war is over. The winner of Stuff.co.nz's inaugural Blog Idol competition has been announced - it's Christchurch librarian Moata Tamaira. us.rd.yahoo.com
Blogs open communication in Cambodia (The State)
A Cambodian blogger asked recently whether former King Norodom Sihanouk should be considered the country's founding father of blogging. He got no definitive answer. Cambodian blog watchers say the 84-year-old monarch may not have known he was blogging when he unveiled his Web site, updated daily by his staff since 2002 with his views on national affairs, correspondence with his admirers and news ... us.rd.yahoo.com
Court Learns Best Way to Keep a Secret Is Not by Posting It on the Internet (Law.com)
There are federal appeals court decisions that are published, those that aren't published, and then, in some very rare instances, there are those rulings the courts post online, only to reverse direction some hours later. Appellate litigator Howard J. Bashman gives a behind-the-scenes tour of the last type of ruling and explains how the information came to be available on his "How Appealing" blog. us.rd.yahoo.com
WHATS ONLINE; Warming and the Right
Jim Manzi, a longtime software executive, says that economically speaking, carbon taxes could be worse than global warming itself. nytimes.com
Google tops profit targets
GOOGLE posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit overnight, defying fears that it faces an online advertising slump. australianit.news.com.au