Rocky road ahead for Senate’s gift of telecom immunity
Friday, October 19th, 2007Feingold vows to use 'every tool at my disposal' to block telecom immunity, protect privacy; Dodd says will filibusterRead the full story
Archive for October, 2007
Feingold vows to use 'every tool at my disposal' to block telecom immunity, protect privacy; Dodd says will filibusterRead the full story
Q&A: Paul Krugman on the Benefits of Bush Bashing
Friday, October 19th, 2007Today, Krugman, who has been extremely grumpy for much of this decade, is guardedly optimistic that the shifting poll numbers and sour national mood could translate into a Democratic resurgence. The issue to watch? Health care.Read the full story
Comcast Blocks Net Traffic
Friday, October 19th, 2007Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally. Read the full story
Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix
Friday, October 19th, 2007Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, were arrested at their homes after they wrote a story that revealed that the Village Voice Media company, its executives, its reporters and even the names of the readers of its website had been subpoenaed by a special prosecutor.Read the ...
Internet startup to go — 7 hours
Thursday, October 18th, 2007These new projects (it is a little hard to call them full-fledged companies) take an entirely different approach from the software and Internet firms of the late 1990s. The new ethos among entrepreneurs: Throw something out there quickly and see if it sticks.Read the full story
Twin blasts strike near Bhutto
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Two explosions went off Thursday night near a truck carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on her celebratory return to Pakistan after eight years in exile. Police said she was unhurt, but hospital officials and witnesses said dozens of people were killed and more than 150 wounded.Read the full story
First Ever Web Design Survey Results
Thursday, October 18th, 2007"In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey's 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development (PDF) as practiced in the US and worldwide. ...
Facebook Promises to Open Data … Ambigously
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Facebook Inc. wants to make the data its members enter into the social network's profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online services if they want, the company's CEO said Wednesday. That Facebook doesn't let them do this today is "a flaw in the system" and something ...
Death Cab’s Chris Walla: Homeland Security took my hard drive
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Walla said he believed the confiscation was random, but Barsuk and some music publications hinted it may have been more than a coincidence that such a political album - it includes songs criticizing the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, the Iraq war and the firings of U.S. attorneys by ...
Bush Approval Rating Dropped to 24 Percent!
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Bush's job approval rating fell to 24 percent from last month's record low for a Zogby poll of 29 percent. A paltry 11 percent gave Congress a positive grade, tying last month's record low.Read the full story