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• Ayn Rand, Our President: Plucky Bob Woodruff Celebrated For Not Dying

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Abc News, Ayn Rand Our President, Bob Woodruff, Don T Mention The War, George W Bush, Iraq, Media, Will To Power

  During a briefing yesterday concerning the recommendations of a panel appointed to investigate the treatment of our wounded soldiers, President Bush singled out former ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff,...

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• Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:51 am

  Tags: Power

  i_like_spam writes "Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the background colors used by high-traffic websites such as Google and the NYTimes. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if Google switched their background

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• I Dream of Rupert

  Published: July 21, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Domain Names Domains, Google, Investing Non Domain Investing, Microsoft, Paid Search, Sports, Television, The Power Of The Internet, Traffic, Type In Traffic, Yahoo

  how domain name traffic powers part of Google, Yahoo and drives a significant portion of generic-intenet Internet traffic.. Rupe tried to get his head around the concept that many of the companies he had bought and invested in had domain name underpinnings. He was quite clever, savvy and aware of things in my dream. As much as I wanted to

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• Google to Auction Airwaves

  Published: July 20, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Google, Paid Search, The Power Of The Internet, Type In Traffic

  ghttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/80b57ede-36fd-11dc-9f6d-0000779fd2ac.html Maybe they could buy Verisign give domain names away for free and auction hostname lookups instead, splitting rev-share with the govt. Buy it by the acre..  sell it by the foot. If you can't sell the net-neutrality concept buy the opposing team and play by their rules :)

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• Can The Power of The Net Save "Business 2.0"

  Published: July 20, 2007, 3:41 pm

  Tags: The Power Of The Internet

  Okay, I've seen it all.  A Facebook group is out there trying to save Business 2.0 ..  Perhaps domainers (made famous by this mag) can chime in with support to said group and convince the publication's master to keep those presses running. Anything is possible on the net. PS writes: "" ..domainers are a smart bunch. you guys

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• Vast Majority Favor the internet Over TV

  Published: July 20, 2007, 10:11 am

  Tags: The Power Of The Internet

  Dave Wrixon sends link: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/07/18/young-favor-internet-over-tv Quote: "Look at Live Earth concerts this past weekend," said Tapscott. "More than 10,000 'Friends of Live Earth' events were pulled together in 130 countries." "People around the world could go online for background

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• Firefox Takes IE Down Another Notch

  Published: July 19, 2007, 7:44 pm

  Tags: Domain Names Domains, Google, Ip Issues, Microsoft, Monetization, The Power Of The Internet, Type In Traffic, Web Tech

  Danno sends spicy headline and link: ""FYI...July 17http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39167861,00.htm?r=1Best,Dan""" ***FS*** The way I see it Microsoft / IE have two choices.  They can clean up their act (browser) and stop gaming people's navigational intent via BS takeovers of your/my traffic to

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• Online Ads Killed Business 2.0?

  Published: July 18, 2007, 8:54 pm

  Tags: The Power Of The Internet

  phenomenon that has helped power the tech industry's resurgence. Meanwhile, fast-moving, low-overhead blogs are pushing into the territory once dominated by magazines such as the Industry Standard and Upside, and they're sucking up many of the ad dollars that remain. (See " Blogging Into the Mainstream.")" Headline quote and

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• The Celebrity as the Blogger

  Published: July 17, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: The Power Of The Internet

  of the story.  The power of celebrity to fuel "more fame" through reality blogging. They are always making more celebrities, and celebrities aren't dying faster than they are minting new ones.  Call it the 'debasement of celebrity' or 'celeb-inflation'.  A fixed amount of global attention and more Celebs and famous

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• Sumner, Randolph and Riesling Spark Usual Thought Process about Internet Media, Traffic and Domain Names

  Published: July 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Domain Names Domains, Monetization, Paid Search, The Power Of The Internet, Traffic, Type In Traffic

  I just watched a neat interview of Sumner Redstone on Bloomberg. First time I've seen him interviewed.  He struck me as a promoter. Nothing wrong with that..  All business-people are promoters I suppose. I did this after spending a day reorganizing my portfolio of domain names and having half a bottle of wine with dinner. The wine was

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• Toyota Unveils Plug-in Hybrid Prius

  Published: July 27, 2007, 9:28 pm

  Tags: Power

  system twinning battery power and a combustion engine, plug-in cars are designed to enable short trips powered entirely by the electric motor, using a battery that can be charged through an electric socket at home. Many environmental advocates see them as the best available technology to reduce gasoline consumption and global-warming

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• Power of Schmooze Award

  Published: July 10, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Schmooze, Award, Gabriel, Chat, Power, Resorted, Encarta, Socially, People

  me that my blogsite has the power of schmooze. I wondered what it was. So I looked for a meaning. Looking for the meaning at Encarta, “Schmooze” means, “to chat socially and agreeably; an informal chat about trivial matters.” Gabriel bestowed a blogging community involvement award. This originated from Adria of In Cing.

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• "Crowd Farm" to Collect Energy?

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: Power

  to harness the mechanical power of large groups of people. "A Crowd Farm in Boston's South Station railway terminal would work like this: A responsive sub-flooring system made up of blocks that depress slightly under the force of human steps would be installed beneath the station's main lobby. The slippage of the blocks against one another as

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• In Brief: Tornadoes, typically found ripping homes ...

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:50 pm

  Tags: Electricity, Generator, Power, So Crazy It Just Might Work, Tornadoes, Weather

  Tornadoes, typically found ripping homes to shreds, could be man-made to 20-Km high, and harnessed by turbines for 200-Megawatts. It sounds like a promising b-movie, at least. [The Star]

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• Nintendo 64 Rumble Packs Make A Comeback In Prisons

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:14 am

  Tags: Gamer Life, Ball Point Pen, Battery Power, Distant Future, Gizmodo, Great System, Maximum Security Prisons, N64, Pen Ink, Pinup Posters, Prisoners, Prison Pen Pal, Ruble, Rumble Pack, Survival Tools, Video Game Accessories, Wii Mote

  their rooms with a battery(power) taped to a tube(could be a pen or a tightly wound piece of paper). The motor from the rumble pack is taken out and attached to the top of the tube. A needle or pin is run down the middle of the tube. when “on” the needle will move up and down like a sewing machine. The needle is then dipped in

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