11 April 2006
10 April 2006
Ben Hammersley
by mikepower
For Murdoch, and ITV, and anyone else who decides to buy a social network for the purpose of selling things to it aren’t buying a captive group. They’re buying Schrodinger’s Audience - the very act of opening the box may kill it.
Best of Both Worlds
by mikepower
Easter,1916 and Yeats' poem of the same name: truly a case where a historical event got shaped in our memories by a single brilliant nearly-contemporaneous interpretation.
08 April 2006
Divers Late Night Confused Thoughts from Dave
by mikepower
I’ve started to see the role of columnists on tehgrauniad not as people on the spot, or people who were on the spot...but as secular preachers who tell us what we ought to believe, and do so more earnestly when their cause is improbable.
06 April 2006
Oddly Enough
by mikepower
Tired of playing second fiddle to men in conservative Saudi Arabia, five women decided if you can't beat them, join them.
Home Page: Mencken Society
by mikepower
Honoring the memory of and promoting the reading of the living works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-09-12—1956-01-29), the “Sage of Baltimore”, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast.
05 April 2006
Central Desktop Blog
by mikepower & 1 other
Email as a collaboration tool sucks. Everyone knows this. Everyone says it. Everyone writes about it. And everyone agrees that its inefficient, it’s chaotic, its silo’ed and its full of spam. Yet, in spite of these shortcomings, we can assume with
Blog Alert: Free Email Notifications of Blog Posts
by mikepower & 2 others
Blog Alert will send you daily email notifications when there are new posts to your favorite blog or RSS feed. No account is required, just enter the feed URL and your email address
Micro Persuasion: Ten Feedburner Hacks
by mikepower & 2 others
FeedBurner is one of my favorite tools in my Web 2.0 tool-belt. The main attraction here is FeedBurner's rich metrics, which will tell you a lot about how many are reading your feed, what aggregator they're using, etc. But dig a little deeper and there's
Sex tourism thriving in Bible Belt
by mikepower
Atlanta, the buckle of the U.S. Bible Belt, where the world's busiest passenger airport provides a cheaper, more convenient and safer underage sex destination for men seeking girls as young as 10.
Bringing Palestine to Iraq: Lenin's Tomb
by mikepower
In what is curiously described as a shift from "a socialist to a free market economy", the Iraqi 'government' has decided to slash food rations for the poor.
