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I’ve used Wordpress for two years, first as a conventional front-page blog, then as a simple CMS, then both. As Wordpress has evolved, the development team has done an excellent job providing documentation on how to bend and stretch the software’s functionality without requiring true PHP coding skills or unnecessary plug-ins. Ever

Best Overall: Facebook Facebook revolutionized the idea of what social networking could be. Best technology innovation / achievement: Earthmine Earthmine picks up where Google Earth leaves off, bringing deep semantic data to 3D panoramas of the real world. Earthmine’s system can keep track of the objects found in the real world and attribute information to each of them, such as latitude, longitude, elevation, and other attributes. Best Clean Tech Startup: Tesla Motors Tesla’s green sports car has captured the imagination of a public who had come to expect electric cars to be dull are boring. Due to be released this year, the company has pre-orders from some of the biggest names in Entertainment and Technology. Best video startup: Hulu Hulu put television online. Their broadcasting system was modeled on the success of social video sites and drawn the praise of its previous critics. Best user-generated content site: Digg Digg’s simple voting system defined the emerging social media revolution. Getting “dugg” quickly became a badge of honor and established a coveted place in the geek lexicon. Best mobile start-up: Twitter Twitter, the new addictive microblogging platform. It wasn’t until after the South by Southwest conference that people realized the value of the incredibly simple microblogging platform. Best International startup: Netvibes Based in London, Tariq Karim and Freddy Mini’s Netvibes has made waves in the U.S. as a top personalized web portal. Best consumer startup: Meebo Meebo made instant messaging ubiquitous by bringing it online. They then developed it into a platform where anyone could add chat to their applications. Best enterprise startup: Zoho Zoho’s comprehensive online suite of 14 business applications ranging from document editing to CRM continues to lead the way in the move away from desktop computing to working in the cloud. Best design: SmugMug SmugMug is professional photo site. SmugMug’s attention to detail and design can command as much as $150 per year from their users. Best new gadget/ device: Apple iPhone. See the Apple acceptance speech here. Best business model: Zazzle Looking for a Star Wars hat or memorable mug? Zazzle is an on-demand factory of consumer goods for top brands. It also lets consumers become producers by uploading their own images onto that T-shirt, mug, or mousepad. . Consumers can also receive a commission on products that they sell and design themselves Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme. Founded and developed solely by Gabe Rivera, Techmeme serves as the front page of the tech blogosphere. The site’s advanced algorithms identify the day’s top stories by making sense of conversations across the web’s best blogs. Best Startup Founder: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) Does this really need any explanation? At 23 Mark has built one of the world’s leading online destinations that has recently been valued at $15 billion. A remarkable achievement for anyone, let alone someone at the still relatively young 23. A well deserved award. Best Startup CEO: Toni Schneider (Automattic) Schnieder has lead the company from its roots as a open source alternative to Movable Type into a multi-million dollar enterprise that saves the world from blog spam and offers a free hosted blogging solution that competes with Google’s Blogger. Best new startup: iMedix iMedix combines search and social networking to change the way people find health information online. Users are encouraged to help each other by sharing health experiences and links from around the web. Most likely to succeed: Automattic (WordPress) The open source blogging platform that powers the long tale and turned into a multi-million dollar spam fighting and hosted blogging service. Best use of viral marketing: StumbleUpon StumbleUpon’s service lets users bookmark and discover new sites they love. With only a $1.5 million investment in 2005, StumbleUpon gew to over 4 million Stumblers and was bought by eBay in 2007 for $75 million Best time sink site: Kongregate CEO Jim Greer describes Kongregate as XBox live for casual games. This site hosts some of the webs most addictive casual games. Remember Desktop Tower Defense? Moreover, the games are not only played by users, but also created by them in exchange for a share of advertising revenue and other rewards. Most likely to make the world a better place: DonorsChose DonorsChoose.org is dedicated to connecting classrooms in need with individuals who want to help.

the furor over Barack Obama's praise for Ronald Reagan is not, as some think, overblown.

Praise for NEVER WITHOUT YOU AGAIN . . . "Never Without You Again, starts out slow but steadily gains momentum. Before readers know it, they'll be hooked and unable to put this book down." Debbie R. Sims, Romantic Times Magazine

5B4 is a blog about photo books. I love (and collect) photo books. Everybody loves Alec Soth's blog, for obvious reasons. It's simply great. Exposure is a new blog by Aperture, which has had a very promising start. BLDGBLOG is not a photo blog (it's mostly about architecture), but it so intelligently written that every other post I wonder how amateurish my writing might look in comparison. BPS Research Digest, a blog summarizing psychological research, typically makes me channel Mr Spock ("Fascinating!"). For me, Brian Ulrich's blog is right up there with Alec's blog, with a slightly different focus and style. Ed Winkleman's blog is the only art blog that I read regularly (even though I scan a few others). His is most engaging (but hey! what do I know about art?) Exposure Compensation is a great photo blog. gmtPlus9 (-15) requires advanced calculus to determine the actual time zone, but will keep you entertained until you manage to figure it out. i heart photograph features a lot of good photography, with preferences a bit different from mine. Great blog! Modern Art Obsession delivers art/photography with a bit of attitude nicely. The actual Mrs. Deane behind Mrs. Deane is a good friend, and her blog I cannot praise enough. muse-ings always contains "intelligent" (M. Parr) and interesting discussions of photo issues and photographer's work, with the ruffling of the feathers being a regular feature. Another must read, just like (Notes on) Politics, Theory & Photography, which, however, is a bit more on the politics and - often - theory side. Shane Lavalette's blog is another great photo blog, as is The Sonic Blog, the only German blog in this list. VVORK shows you an ecclectic set of art with few words (just the way I like my art). For those who want to read Frank Rich's columns without having to buy the waste of paper called the Sunday New York Times, there's Welcome to Pottersville (the magazine is online and quite overrated actually).

WASHINGTON - Desperate for support among fellow Republicans, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced grim prospects Friday after a bruising Senate hearing that produced one outright call for resignation and a fistful of invitations and hints to quit. One GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record) of Texas, predicted Gonzales would weather the furor and said he should. "Frankly, I don't think the Democrats are going to be satisfied with the resignation by Al Gonzales," he said. Gonzales gave no indication Friday that he was leaving. "Please know that as you continue your work, I am by your side," the attorney general told an audience of crime victims' rights supporters. He spoke in a gravelly voice the day after his long day of testimony. Gonzales also called several GOP senators, including Cornyn and Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, an aide said. Specter said Gonzales sounded "in good spirits." "The attorney general did call me today and he said he was just checking with senators to see how the hearing went," Specter said Friday. "I told him, 'Everything I had to say about the hearing I've already said.'" The Pennsylvania Republican also said he sent a letter to Bush about Gonzales, who Specter had said a day earlier had emerged from the hearing with his credibility tarnished. Specter would not reveal the contents of the letter. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said President Bush had spoken with Gonzales after Thursday's hearing, and she added, "The attorney general continues to have the president's full confidence." There was little other evidence of support for Gonzales, who has been struggling to explain last winter's firings of eight federal prosecutors. Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record), a Kansas Republican who sits on the committee, issued a statement that notably did not urge Gonzales to remain in his post. "Although his answers suggested that there were serious managerial issues at the Department of Justice, I did not see a factual basis to call for his resignation. As for whether the attorney general should resign, that is a question I leave to him and to the president," he said. There were fresh calls from Democrats for Gonzales to step down. "The president should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) of California. Gonzales and other administration officials had hoped his appearance Thursday would produce a groundswell of support among Republicans, but there was little if any evidence of that. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) was traveling, and a spokesman referred reporters to noncommittal comments the Kentucky lawmaker had made on April 1. "I think most Republican senators are willing to give the attorney general a chance to come up before the Judiciary Committee and give his side of this story, and are likely to withhold judgment about whether he can be effective in the Senate in dealing with us, until after we hear from him before the Judiciary Committee," McConnell had said at the time. Sen. Mel Martinez (news, bio, voting record) of Florida, who doubles as the general chairman of the Republican Party, had no immediate reaction to Gonzales' appearance. In several hours before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Gonzales said he had done nothing improper in firing the eight prosecutors, but conceded the case had been badly handled. At the same time, he said 71 times that he either could not recall or did not remember conversations or events surrounding the dismissals. Alone among the nine Republicans on the committee, Sen. Tom Coburn (news, bio, voting record) of Oklahoma called for Gonzales to resign. Several other Republicans made plain their unhappiness. Specter told Gonzales his description of events was "significantly if not totally at variance with the facts." "Why is your story changing?" Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record) of Iowa asked at one point, citing differences between an earlier explanation and the hearing testimony. Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record) of South Carolina, after hearing the attorney general's account of the case, said, "Most of this is a stretch," and added it seemed to him that some of those dismissed "just had personality conflicts with people in your office or the White House and (officials) just made up reasons to fire them." Sen. Jeff Sessions (news, bio, voting record) of Alabama expressed concern with Gonzales' memory at the hearing. In an interview later, he went further. "I think it's going to be difficult for him to be an effective leader," he said. "At this point, I think (Gonzales) should be given a chance to think it through and talk to the president about what his future should be." At the White House on Friday, Perino lavished praise on Gonzales. "He has done a fantastic job at the Department of Justice. He is our No. 1 crime fighter. He has done so much to help keep this country safe from terrorists." Yiwu mix container exporter China exporter Import from china Export from china China mix container exporter Agent in yiwu Purchasing agent in yiwu yiwu LOUIS VUITTON CHANEL Yiwu commodity city China manufacture Made in china gas detector

Harald Bredesen, a Lutheran minister who helped shape the ministry of evangelist Pat Robertson and spread a form of evangelical praise known as "speaking in tongues," died Friday. He ...

Marketing and PR are no longer one way communication channels. People talk back to brands and companies on blogs, discussion boards, and an ever-evolving array of “consumer-generated media” formats. Sometimes they praise, sometimes they criticize, sometimes they even rant. The message the company intends to send may not be the same the consumer takes away after absorbing the spectrum of perspectives created online. The key point communicated may be stronger, or it may be weaker, but it surely changes. This is what Cymfony calls Influence 2.0.™ Because messages are no longer one-way…because the reaction they stimulate becomes part of the message...measuring where a message appears and how many people see it is no longer enough. Companies need to capture the richness of the dialogue among people to understand how a message evolves.

"Letters to Saddam" is a way for you to publicly say anything you want about Saddam Hussein, the war in Iraq, the Bush administration, and anything else dealing with the current political climate. It's completely confidential. Rant, rave, confess, praise, yell.

Welcome to readers both current and future! This site serves as a companion to the book Eric Meyer on CSS, now available from New Riders Publishing. Here you will find the project files to accompany each of the 13 projects in the book, useful links, some bonus materials cut from the printed book because of length, and more. If you don't own the book yet, you can certainly look at any of these materials, as well as read about the book and its author, sample some praise for the book and links to full reviews, and find out where to order a copy of your own.

Google Accessible Search, Raman said: "We don't test against WCAG. We think in the spirit of those guidelines, but we don't test against them verbatim."

The common perception of 15th century Northern Italy is to view it as the birthplace of a whole new movement in art and culture: a Culture 2.0, if you will. We tend to think of the Renaissance as an almost revolutionary movement, sweeping aside the old-school 1.0 dark ages.

This week an academic claimed that boredom was good for kids. That may be true, says Zoe Williams but it takes an adult to really appreciate it

A scan of the newspaper story and accompanying picture, which shows a pious Muslim woman reading to Wade MacLauchlan her letters of thanks and praise.

On Monday night, WMUZ Christian Radio morning DJ Jon Culbert was leading his Bible study at Fuddruckers in Dearborn. Culbert happened to notice...Shaun Alexander , Seattle Seahawks starting running back and NFL MVP. What particularly caught Culbert's attention was that the fellows at the table...were saying grace before their meal.

Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans on Thursday charged their Democratic colleagues with trying to smear Samuel Alito's reputation and character because they haven't been able to find anything legally wrong with confirming him to the Supreme Court.