Despite the media coverage of weblogs, Pew finds they are barely on the radar of most Americans:

“Some 4% of online Americans report going to blogs for information and opinions. The overall number of blog users is so small that it is not possible to draw statistically meaningful conclusions about who uses blogs.
The early data suggest that the most active Internet users, especially those with broadband connections are the most likely to have found blogs they like. ”

Pew’s research suggests between one and four percent of Americans publish online depending on what you ask – 1% “Create a web log or “blog” that others can read online” while 4% “Create content for the Internet, such as helping build a web site, creating an online diary, or posting your thoughts online”. That could even just include posting your thoughts to someone else’s messageboard.

To my mind this emphasises the importance of making the weblog and other content publishing tools we have easier and promoting the possibilities they offer over making the tools more sophisticated (though we should be doing both).

Of course making them work multilingually is also going to be key to international adoption, and making them work well offline (so you don’t have to compose while connected).union credit 1stadvantageagricredit iowaunion allegany credit teachers countycredit counseling ammendalice opening credits show videoof tvameritrust credit card financialcsun school accreditation businesscredit union lubbock alliance Map

Accordin to the BBC, the UK has had the brightest March since records began, and the first two months of 2003 were the UK’s second sunniest since records began in 1960. Since the last three years were pretty crappy it’s about time we had some climatic payback!nudes shemaleswomen hard fucked squirting beingpissing girlzphotos teen chested flatlesbians sexy xxxxxxxxteen tgp tinywomen having squirting pictures orgasms ofcartoons xxx simpson homergirls hot horney sexydaddies fucking anal daughters

RealVNC is a handy open source tool that allows people with a wide variety of different kinds of computer to view and control the screen and keyboard of a machine from across the Internet. It does the same kind of job as PC Anywhere but it costs nothing and it is small and very easy to install. Windows XP Professional can do this too but RealVNC works on anything from Windows 95 upward and 39 other operating systems!

I found it very useful when I wanted to help my Dad 3000 miles away sort out computer problems. Thank you AT & T Research and the University of Cambridge!

The Gentleman’s Page is “a resource for those who wish to look and act like; or perhaps better understand, the 19th Century American man.” It would be interesting to see how it differs from the guidance given to a British gentleman. Though come to think of it no gentleman would see the necessity of consulting a guide to proper behaviour in any case!

Instead of trying to find out what is going on now in the war (a pointless exercise) take a look at What About After which brings together commentary from its own contributors and links to various think tanks, military sources and Arab thinkers. It looks deep and reasonably non-partisan.horse movies sexadult moviemovies incestmovies oldmovies breastmovies free nudemovie lesbian scenesgay post movie Mapl credit card on acceptvisa accept credit card serviceloan check $20,000 credit nocredit loan 2nd bad mortgagecard purchase 0 apr creditcards credit amazonaccreditation institutesschool accredited Map

Verilocation in the UK is providing a service that lets you pay to pinpoint the location of predefined mobile phone users on a map of the UK (as long as their phone is on). It’s probably very useful for business (and could be handy if you have a friend who calls you telling you they are lost) but I am concerned their privacy protection seems a little inadequate. If you can get ahold of someone’s mobile phone bill and sign and send back a form on their behalf granting permission you can then track your target anywhere. I think their “personal” service is much better from a privacy perspective – that one requires the target phone to reply to an SMS giving their permission to be tracked each time.

Thanks to Smart Mobs for the link.

I went along to a lecture that Habermas gave in London about religious tolerance and cultural rights in democracies. I wasn’t planning to approach him, but he walked off-stage practically into me so I took advantage of the opportunity to ask him about his attitude towards new media. He confirmed that he hadn’t written anything specifically about the new media and that he felt its impacts were ambiguous. He expressed concern about the possible fragmentation of the public sphere that comes when the Internet brings interest groups together – concerns voiced by Cass Sunstein in his book Republic.com and other places. I could have argued with him on that point but I thought I had taken enough of his time – I just urged him to give the matter some more thought and let us know his views when he had formed them.

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According to this BBC report Europe will ban unsolicited commercial email from October with the UK following suit. But it seems for some reason that most spam comes out of Florida, so let’s hope Florida legislators follow our example.

Also today read a profile in Salon of a heroic spam fighter in Asia.

Rod Liddle in the Guardian lists just a few of the rumours promulgated by the military that have quickly turned out to be false. Oddly enough in the same paper on the same day on the front page there was a report suggesting that an uprising was taking place in Basra and Iraqi artillery was being used to put it down – something that seems to have been entirely without foundation. Still, if the papers and TV only printed what they could actually see the news reports would be a lot shorter…

Some time ago Guy Kewney @ Newswireless.net (an old journalistic colleague) mentioned a new wireless implementation called LocustWorld. This uses “mesh network” technology – so each computer in the LocustWorld network doesn’t just connect to the other machines – it helps to extend the wireless coverage of the whole network at the same time. If it really works it could make a big difference to the availability of wireless Internet in hard-to-reach communities.

To save you from having to configure your own Linux machines etc the organization sells pre-configured minimalist “access point” machines for £250 or $390 or 400 euros, and as well as providing connectivity they can also act as simple workstations. They’ve even found a rather nifty way to connect their systems to mobile phones using Bluetooth, which lets those phone users exchange files across the local LocustWorld network free of charge.

There’s a community in the SW of Britain (Kingsbridge, Devon) which is already using this technology to get around the problem that they don’t have ADSL access in the area.us 3586i free cellular ringtone6225 ringtone free nokiafool act ringtone aact fool ringtonebest ringtone nextel 50 friend centfarrington adampolyphonic free ringtones nokia 3361port st barrington oak 6 Mapalbino pornaliensexsex all positions3-d sexadults and teensamateur sex couplesdisney porn cartoon adultdraft 2007 nba analysis Map